European Integration

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This paper is a proposal for a study on liberal intergovernmentalism. It looks at how the integration of an ever-expanding number of states within the European Union has been one of the most remarkable and significant developments in international relations since the end of the Second World War. In particular, it looks at one theory of how it happened - the theory of intergovernmentalism. The paper also contains a detailed literature review on a wide range of topics relating to E.U. integration and a broad discussion of issues arising from this topic.

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"The integration of an ever expanding number of states within the European Union has been one of the most remarkable and significant developments in international relations since the end of the Second World War. It was able to resist the rise of Communism, go on despite the tensions of the cold War, and only augmented and accelerated after the fall of the Berlin wall. After a War which had seen Europe's grandest and greatest powers finds against each other in the most total, global and bloody conflict humanity has ever seen, they were within half a generation working together toward economic (and more controversially) political union."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Earnshaw, David and Judge, David. (1997). "The Life and Times of the European Union's Co-operation Procedure," Journal of Common Market Studies 35(4): 543-564
• Forster, Anthony (1998), ' Britain and the Negotiation of the Maastricht Treaty: A Critique of Liberal Intergovernmentalism', Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 347-68.
• Budden, Philip (1994) The Making of the Single European Act: The United Kingdom and the European Community, 1979-86. Oxford: Oxford University, unpublished, a thesis presented to the Faculty of History, University of Oxford
• Burnham, P. et al (2004) 'Research Methods in Politics' (Basingstoke Palgrave)
• Anderson, J. (1995) 'The State of the (European) Union', World Politics, vol. 47, pp. 441-65

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