Overview
- Provides a critical overview of current theories of European integration
- Offers a new and refreshing approach to explain European integration
- Compares existing theories of European integration with the new approach of European Republicanism, to demonstrate how European integration theories could be developed further
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Shortcomings of Current Theories of EI
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Front Matter
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European Republicanism
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Overcoming the Problems of EI-Theory
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Back Matter
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About this book
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, the res publica of public goods, could better explain European integration. Public good theory has, however, to be adopted in order to make it applicable to European republicanism. Finally, the book demonstrates how this new framework can influence further academic debates, such as on sovereignty and monetary integration, externalities of a common European market and the driving force of European integration. It is maintained that as the republican approach does not follow a pure economic logic, there remains space for political considerations and motivations.
In this topical and interdisciplinary book, the author combines many important strings of European integration theory, history, economics and political sciences, which are clearly brought together into a coherent analytical discourse. Its strength is the interdisciplinary interaction between politics and economics, as well as theoretical and practical issues which are of high relevance for public debate in Europe.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students interested in economic integration, as well as history and political philosophy.
Reviews
“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, US)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Thilo Zimmermann studied economics at the University of Cologne and Genoa. Before his PhD at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, he was working at the economic department of the German Embassy in Rome. During his PhD, he spent research periods at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and the Écoles Normales Supérieures (Rue d’Ulm and Cachan) in Paris.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Republicanism
Book Subtitle: Combining Political Theory with Economic Rationale
Authors: Thilo Zimmermann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25935-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25934-1Published: 22 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25937-2Published: 22 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25935-8Published: 12 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 325
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Integration, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Political Science, History of Modern Europe, Political Philosophy