Sign In. TJ5011-06-Ziltener.tex. Bache3e_ch01. EU Politics / Neo - functionalism. The theory of neo-functionalism emerged in the mid 1950s; it is a theory of regional integration in a process by which countries remove barriers to free trade. Neo-functionalism helps to explain the integration theory of the Western Europe. The theory is tightly connected to the strategies of the integration of the founding fathers. Jean Monnet’s approach to integration aimed at individual sectors in hopes of achieving spillover effects to further the process of integration it is also said to be followed by the early neo functional steps. Schmitter (1969) argues that Jean Monnet’s methods of mutual recognition and piecemeal problem solving imbedded in the nature of neo-functionalism. Rosamond stated that "Neo-functionalism can be read at one level as a theory provoked entirely by the interactive activity among the original six member states" (2000, p. 10).
Neo-functionalism reformulates the functionalist principles in the context of regional institutions. Europedia - A synopsis of prominent integration theories. [EUTW Book Series II] The European Union and Integration Theory since 1950. This book studies on the general and individual history of European Union policy to discuss whether Liberal Inter-governmentalism or Institutionalism can explain history of European Union’s development for the past 60 years more effectively.
Contents Preface / Hungdah Su About the authors Part one General History and Theoretical Debate of European Integration A Historical-Institutionalist Analysis on the Founding Phase of the European Communities: Economic and Security Trade-off / Chih-Ming Chung European integration between 1958 and 1969: A Theoretical Debate / Hungdah Su From European Community to European Union: European Integration from 1969 to 1990 / Hsin-Chih Chen The Development of the European Union from 1990 to 2000 / Yu-Chun Lan Integration Theory and Treaty Reform in the EU—The Cases of Drafting the Constitutional Treaty and the Treaty of Lisbon / Chien-Yi Lu Negotiating the Treaty of Lisbon: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Analysis / Hungdah Su.
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