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Hastening Slowly: European Union Studies — Between Reinvention and Continuing Fragmentation

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Research Agendas in EU Studies

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Bulletins issued on the health of European integration and EU studies have often taken a pessimistic view. For example, Karl Deutsch in the 1960s argued that the integration process had reached a plateau (Deutsch et al., 1967), Ernst Haas in the 1970s wrote of the ‘obsolescence’ of European integration (Haas, 1975) and John Mearsheimer at the beginning of the 1990s — approaching the subject from a realist perspective — saw integration as a contingent phenomenon that would fade away with the end of the Cold War (Mearsheimer, 1990). All of these intimations of mortality have proved decidedly premature. Since the mid-1980s in particular European integration has advanced rapidly, with the EU deepening and widening at pace, and with a long queue of would-be entrants at its door — despite steeply declining chances of accession.

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  1. American University, USA

    Michelle Egan (Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration) (Associate Professor and Jean Monnet Chair of European Integration)

  2. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

    Neill Nugent (Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration) (Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration)

  3. Aston University, UK

    William E. Paterson (Honorary Professor of European and German Politics) (Honorary Professor of European and German Politics)

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Paterson, W.E., Nugent, N., Egan, M. (2010). Hastening Slowly: European Union Studies — Between Reinvention and Continuing Fragmentation. In: Egan, M., Nugent, N., Paterson, W.E. (eds) Research Agendas in EU Studies. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230279445_17

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