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Has Neofunctionalism Been Superseded By A New 'Liberal Intergovernmentalism" As Currently The Most Convincing Theoretical Explanation of European Political Integration?
- Essay length: 5436 words
- Submitted: 07/01/2008
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Grace Thomas
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This essay received a 2.1 according to the submitter. I really hope it was a high 2.1, because I would most likely have awarded this a first. It is extremely well written and structured with a very good degree of evidencing, critical engagement with the literature and independent analysis. It maintains focus throughout which in a long essay is no small achievement. An excellent piece of work.
Marked by teacher Grace Thomas 24/04/2012
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Has Neofunctionalism Been Superseded By A New 'Liberal Intergovernmentalism" As Currently The Most Convincing Theoretical Explanation of European Political Integration?
From an ambitious project originally envisaged to remove the catastrophe of war from such a war-torn continent, the European project has proceeded in 'fits and starts'. Since its inception, there has been much debate regarding what forces drive the integration process forward. Why now, when interstate war in Europe seems impossible, do member states continue to 'pool' their sovereignty in so many areas? Two theories have dominated previous attempts to answer the question of "how and why states cease to be wholly sovereign, how and why they voluntarily mingle, merge and mix with their neighbours, so as to lose the factual attributes of sovereignty."1
Neofunctionalism, the idea that the integration process, once started, develops its own momentum for further integration, saw the height of popularity in the 1960s, following the initial success of the ECSC/EEC and the hugely influential theoretical explanation by Ernst Haas. The second theory, Liberal Intergovernmentalism, surfaced in the 1990s and was championed by Andrew Moravcsik. It saw flaws in neofunctionalist thinking and instead offered an alternative account in which the integrative process
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This essay received a 2.1 according to the submitter. I really hope it was a high 2.1, because I would most likely have awarded this a first. It is extremely well written and structured with a very good degree of evidencing, critical engagement with the literature and independent analysis. It maintains focus throughout which in a long essay is no small achievement. An excellent piece of work.
