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Flexible Integration: Which Model for the European Union?

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Flexible Integration: Which Model for the European Union?
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Alex Warleigh
SeriesContemporary European Studies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9780826460936
ClassificationsDewey:341.2422
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication Date 1 July 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Flexibility is emerging as a key dynamic of European integration. This shift towards flexibility has major implications. The EU will have to cope with more complexity and less transparency. It also affects the way in which European integration is viewed since it makes a state-like outcome to the process far less likely. Alex Warleigh looks at why flexibility has become such an important feature of the EU. He examines its history, and puts forward a typology to explain the models by which it is understood. He goes on to explore the hazards of flexibility and to look at what it has to offer, arguing that it is best seen as a desirable part of the integration process rather than as a problem. Flexibility, he argues is an important mechanism for the realization of the EU's slogan "unity in diversity".

Author Biography

Alex Warleigh is Deputy Director of the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research at Queen's University, Belfast.