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Overview"Flexibility is emerging as a key dynamic of European integration. This shift towards flexibility has major implications. The EU will have to cope with more complexity and less transparency. It also affects the way in which European integration is viewed since it makes a state-like outcome to the process far less likely. Alex Warleigh looks at why flexibility has become such an important feature of the EU. He examines its history, and puts forward a typology to explain the models by which it is understood. He goes on to explore the hazards of flexibility and to look at what it has to offer, arguing that it is best seen as a desirable part of the integration process rather than as a problem. Flexibility, he argues is an important mechanism for the realization of the EU's slogan ""unity in diversity""." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alex WarleighPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Volume: v.15 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.240kg ISBN: 9780826460936ISBN 10: 0826460933 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 01 July 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsPreface 1. Understanding Flexible Integration in the European Union 2. Theorizing Flexibility--The Return of Functionalism? 3. Closer Cooperation --Flexibility from Amsterdam to Nice 4. Problems of Flexibility 5. Making Flexibility WorkReviewsAuthor InformationAlex Warleigh is Deputy Director of the Institute of Governance, Public Policy and Social Research at Queen's University, Belfast. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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