VL IB: European Policy Making

Explaining European Integration

What can one criticize about federalism? (3,4)

3. Feasibility of federation: is it really possible to create unity simply through an act of institution building?
  • Multi-national federations have had a tendency to collapse
  • But: no historical precedent for the kind of union that Europe is constructing
4. Federalism's main focus is on the end product of integration, rather than on the means to get there
  • Mainly a normative theory
  • No account of the dynamics of integration

Diskussion