Which Europe?: The Politics of Differentiated Integration (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

The Euro Area, the Schengen Area, the Franco-German 'motor' and Nordic cooperation illustrate how differentiation has become a pervasive and significant feature of European integration. This book offers an authoritative and comprehensive examination of differentiated integration in its functional and territorial aspects. The Euro Area, the Schengen Area, and Airbus - the 'Anglosphere', the Franco-German 'motor' and Nordic cooperation -- each illustrates how differentiation has become a pervasive feature of European integration. Which Europe? offers an authoritative and comprehensive examination of differentiated integration in its functional and its territorial aspects. It focuses on its implications for both the practice and the theory of European integration. Is it strengthening or weakening the EU and its Member States? Are territorial identities being undermined or strengthened? Are new theories of integration required? In particular, this book looks at the relationship between the growth in use of differentiated integration and the widening of European Union membership, the broadening in its policy scope, and the deepening in integration Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Differentiation as Design Principle and as Tool in the Political Management of European Integration....Pages 3-23 Legal Flexibility, Governance and Differentiated Integration: On Functional Differentiation of EU Law and Politics....Pages 24-38 The Functional Dimension....Pages 39-53 The Spatial Dimension....Pages 54-66 The Temporal Dimension....Pages 67-80 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Alpine Europe....Pages 83-98 ‘Anglo-America’ and Atlantic Europe....Pages 99-111 Balkan Europe....Pages 112-125 Baltic Europe....Pages 126-141 Central Europe....Pages 142-155 Franco-German Europe....Pages 156-169 Mediterranean Europe....Pages 170-183 Nordic Europe....Pages 184-197 Europe’s Neighbourhood and Transboundary Differentiation....Pages 198-212 Front Matter....Pages 213-213 ‘Euro’ Europe: ‘Fuzzy’ Boundaries and ‘Constrained’ Differentiation in Macro-Economic Governance....Pages 215-232 ‘Industrial’ Europe: The Softer Side of Differentiated Integration....Pages 233-250 ‘Social’ Europe....Pages 251-264 ‘Green’ Europe: Differentiation in Environmental Policies....Pages 265-278 The ‘Area of Freedom, Security and Justice’: ‘Schengen’ Europe, Opt-outs, Opt-ins and Associates....Pages 279-292 Bologna’s Deepening Empire: Higher Education Policy in Europe....Pages 293-307 Front Matter....Pages 213-213 Foreign and Security Policies: ‘Trilateral’ Europe?....Pages 308-321 Defence Policy: Temporal and Spatial Differentiation within Reformed Bandwagoning....Pages 322-343 Conclusions: Generalizations and Patterns....Pages 344-351 Back Matter....Pages 352-392 The Euro Area, the Schengen Area, and Airbus - the 'Anglosphere', the Franco-German 'motor' and Nordic cooperation 6 each illustrates how differentiation has become a pervasive feature of European integration. Which Europe? offers an authoritative and comprehensive examination of differentiated integration in its functional and its territorial aspects. It focuses on its implications for both the practice and the theory of European integration. Is it strengthening or weakening the EU and its Member States? Are territorial identities being undermined or strengthened? Are new theories of integration required? In particular, this book looks at the relationship between the growth in use of differentiated integration and the widening of European Union membership, the broadening in its policy scope, and the deepening in integration