Theorizing European Integration

Research Methods in European Union Studies

“…EU studies has spawned a number of books that discuss the development of theoretical work within the political science of EU studies (Chryssochoou, 2009;Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, 2006;Harrison, 1974;Pentland, 1973;Saurugger, 2013;Weiner and Diez, 2009). None of these has much to say about methodology.…”

Differentiated integration in the European Union: towards a comparative regionalism perspective

“…One of neofunctionalism's core early objectives had been to use, but thereby to adapt, functionalist insights into international integration (Chryssochoou 2009). Functionalists such as David Mitrany (1944Mitrany ( , 1975 were sceptical about regional integration, fearing that it could reproduce the dangers of nationalism at a greater scale; instead, they argued for a complex system of issue-specific international regimes, where power could safely be taken away from the nation state and shared internationally.…”

Globalization and Capitalist Geopolitics

“…The point of synarchy is not that it reproduces transcendent sovereignty, nor that it destroys its constituent demoi through coercive homogenization (Chryssochoou 2009), but that it depends on the standardized replication of legal norms and rules among sub-units: states, regions, zones or other spatial constellations created by globalization which adapt to and assimilate mutually reinforcing codes of collective economic existence under the general axiomatic of capital. For this reason the emergent logic of synarchy is consistent with contemporary economic techniques of governance rather than traditional models of political domination and control which depend on the threat or application of force.…”