ABSTRACT

International Relations Theory and the Politics of European Integration focuses on the roles of community, power and security, within the European Union. It features contributions from highly respected international scholars, and covers subjects such as:
· sovereignty and European integration
· the EU and the politics of migration
· the internationalisation of military security
· the EU as a security actor
· money, finance and power
· the quest for legitimacy with regards to EU enlargement.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

Integration and the politics of community in the New Europe

chapter 3|15 pages

European communities in a neo-medieval global polity

The dilemmas of fairyland?

chapter 4|34 pages

The art of war and the construction of peace

Toward a virtual theory of international relations

chapter 5|25 pages

Sovereignty, anarchy and law in Europe

When legal norms turn into political facts

chapter 6|18 pages

Gendered communities

The ambiguous attraction of Europe

chapter 7|22 pages

Contested community

Migration and the question of the political in the EU

chapter 8|34 pages

When two become one

Internal and external securitisations in Europe

chapter 10|24 pages

'And never the twain shall meet?'

The EU's quest for legitimacy and enlargement

chapter 11|45 pages

The EU as a security actor

Reflections from a pessimistic constructivist on post-sovereign security orders