Imagining the Union: a Case of Banal Europeanism?

Abstract

In recent years there has been a revived interest among students of the European Union (EU) in the work of the early integration theorists such as Karl Deutsch and Ernst Haas. Scholars have, for example, begun to recognize the importance of transactions in the creation and maintenance of the governance regime within the EU (Sandholtz and Stone Sweet, 1998) which were so central to the work of Deutsch. Meanwhile, a focus on the learning of ‘integrative habits’ as a result of prior cooperation, emphasized by the functionalists (Mitrany, 1943),2 the communication school (Deutsch, 1953, 1957, 1966) and neo-functionalist scholars (Haas, 1958), has once again begun to come to the fore. An extensive literature, drawing upon new institutionalist approaches, examining the role of institutions, institutionalization, lock-in, path dependency and the question of preference formation (Armstrong and Bulmer, 1998; Pierson, 1996), has, for example, emerged.

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