The Political Economy of European Integration Theory and Analysis

Introduction: Political Economy and European Integration Erik Jones and Amy Verdun 1. An American/European Divide in European Integration Studies: Bridging the gap with international political economy Amy Verdun 2. Non-State Actors and False Dichotomies: Reviewing IR/IPE approaches to European integration Maria Green Cowles 3. The Principal-Agent Approach and the study of the European Union: Promise unfulfilled? Hussein Kassim and Anand Menon 4. Idiosyncrasy and Integration: Suggestions from comparative political economy Erik Jones 5. The Role of Organized Interests in the European Political Economy Justin Greenwood 6. Imagined European Unions: Perceptions of the EU and support for EU enlargement Maurits van der Veen 7. European Monetary Integration and Class Strategies: The federation of German industry's position on monetary union from Bretton Woods to EMU Marcus Pistor 8. The EU and Inter-Regional Cooperation: Interests, preferences and structural power Mary Farrell 9. Understanding New Forms of European Integration: A study in competing political economy explanations Waltraud Schelkle 10. The Political Economy of European Integration in a Spatial Model Robert Pahre Conclusion: Convergence and divergence in the study of european political economy: Anatomy of a research agenda Erik Jones and Amy Verdun