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ItemIdeas of Regionalism: The European Case(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2011-08)Abstract This article traces the development of major ideas about integration in Europe. It examines the historical development of, and competition between, ideas about the EU, exploring the clash of integration models and ideals. It draws on the visions of European unity that led to the creation and development of the EU. Regional integration in the EU is distinctive and not necessarily ‘exportable’. The article examines governing norms, material interests, power, and security. It demonstrates that the narrative of shared experience and history formed part of a need to both overcome hyper-nationalism and to share sovereignty, while also privileging some memories. EU norms are also enshrined in a distinctive institutionalized structure, based on a co-existence of national and EU interests and a balancing among often competing interests.
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ItemExporting a new public space? reflections on the EU integration experience as a paradigm(PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 2008-09)
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ItemEast Asian regionalism and EU studies(Informa UK Limited, 2010-12-01)
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ItemComparative regional integration in the EU and East Asia: Moving beyond integration snobbery(PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 2010-05-01)
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ItemFactors for integration? Transnational party cooperation in the European parliament, 1952-79(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2004-03)The idea that supranational institutions of the European Union (EU) such as the European Parliament (EP) actively promote integration has been manifest in discourses of the European Community (EC) since the 1950s. There is less evidence that parties in the EP do so, partly because their existence at the European level is a relatively new phenomenon. It is also problematic, as these parties do not constitute a European party system above the state. The article traces the development of transnational cooperative links among the parties of the European Parliament from 1952 to 1979, and illustrates that, from the earliest stages of European Integration, party representatives participating in the newly established Assembly chose to adopt political stances, organisational structures and norms that were transnational and supranational in style and representation.