VL IB: European Policy Making

Explaining European Integration

What are the conclusions of the lecture?

  • Neofunctionalist-intergovernmentalist divide is central in the academic discourse
  • Interesting and to some extent problematic
    • Intergovernmentalists have accused Neofunctionalists for ignoring core assumptions of intergovernmentalism
    • Neofunctionalists have accused Intergovernmentalis of not paying enough attention to central insights of Neofunctionalism

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