Ben Rosamond provides an accessible and critical introduction to the full rangeof classical and contemporary perspectives on integration theory. He explainsthe ... » 

Ben Rosamond provides an accessible and critical introduction to the full rangeof classical and contemporary perspectives on integration theory. He explainsthe centrality of theoretical work to the study of integration and the EU andlocates different theories within their wider intellectual and real worldcontexts. The book engages with the key debates to have arisen from theoreticaldeliberations about European integration. It emphasizes the importance ofsociology of knowledge questions when evaluating integration theory andstressing the continued significance of international theory to the study ofthe EU. «