ABSTRACT
The recent history of European studies is intricately linked to the notion of integration. The 1986 Single European Act signalled phenomenal changes that came to inspire a new type of European study: integration itself came back into focus. While empirically-minded students of Europe began to map the new institutional and policy terrain that developed in the late 1980s, our more theoretical colleagues aimed to explain the sundry motivations for this new integration. The result has been a broad church of researchers who have largely traced the evolution of political sovereignty from national to supranational institutions.
