European Republicanism Combining Political Theory with Economic Rat
This book presents current theories of European integration, such as federalism, neo-functionalism and liberal intergovernmentalism with their strengths and weaknesses. It is then argued that the combination of republican theory with public good theory, t
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European Republicanism
Combining Political Theory with Economic Rationale
European Republicanism “Providing a distinct novel approach to the study of European integration, this book proposes the ideas of republicanism to understand the nature of the European Union. After criticizing the economic approaches and dissecting the origins of the political science theories to European integration, the author presents a convincing and relevant alternative connecting politics and economics in a unifying interpretation of Europe”. —Leila Simona Talani, Chair in International Political Economy, King’s College London, UK “The purpose of this ambitious book is to harness historical, philosophical, economic and political science arguments to give conceptual foundations to European unification. The project and the implementation of European unity come out as a determined, but also vulnerable, endeavour. The difficulties in identifying the concepts match the practical difficulties in dealing with the recent crisis”. “The book proposes republicanism as the organizing concept to understand the European project. All those interested in the simple, yet tremendously complex, question of what is the European Union should read it”. —Francesco Papadia, Senior Fellow at Bruegel Institute, Brussels, Belgium “A remarkable book that provides a convincing theoretical case for why we do best to think about European integration in terms of republicanism, rather than federalism or any of the many other ways it has been theorized. Combining economic and political theory, the book provides highly original arguments that develop a new view of how to move beyond Europe’s current impasse”. —Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, USA
Thilo Zimmermann
European Republicanism Combining Political Theory with Economic Rationale
Thilo Zimmermann Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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