How would you characterize the process of European integration from the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community to the Lisbon Treaty? Please support your response with analysis of specific events. Which of the theories examined in class best explains why European integration occurs/deepens and why the deepening stops? Please compare and examine critically at least three of the theories/approaches we have discussed in class: neo-functionalism, classical intergovernmentalism, liberal intergovernmentalism, bottom-up Europeanization, top-down Europeanization and/or Pierson’s (1997; 2004) concept of path-dependence.
the European coal and steel community you can find in the file under
Lisbon Treaty you can find in the article When FailureIsntFailureEuropeanUnionConstitutionalism
Europeanization you can find in Borzel&Risse2000_WhenEuropeHitsHome.pdf