The European Union Readings on the Theory and Practice of European Integration Third Edition Edited by Brent F. Nelsen and Alexander Stubb Contents Preface ix PART 1 VISIONS OF A UNITED EUROPE 1 The Ventotene Manifesto Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi 3 2 The Tragedy of Europe Winston S. Churchill 7 3 The Schuman Declaration Robert Schuman 13 4 Preambles to the Treaties Establishing the European Communities (Treaties of Paris and Rome) 15 5 A Ferment of Change Jean Monnet 19 6 A Concert of European States Charles de Gaulle 27 7 Preamble to the Single European Act 45 8 A Family of Nations Margaret Thatcher 49 9 A Necessary Union Jacques Delors 55 10 Preamble to the Treaty on European Union (The Maastricht Treaty) 65 11 Preamble to the Treaty of Nice Amending the Treaty on European Union (The Nice Treaty) 67 12 Reflections on a Constitution for Europe Joschka Fischer, Jacques Chirac, Tony Blair, and Paavo Lipponen 69 Viii CONTENTS PART 2 EARLY CURRENTS IN INTEGRATION THEORY 13 Altiero Spinelli and the Strategy for the United States of Europe Sergio Pistone 91 14 A Working Peace System David Mitrany 99 15 Political Community and the North Atlantic Area Karl W. Deutsch et al. 121 16 The Uniting of Europe Ernst B. Haas 145 17 Political Integration: Definitions and Hypotheses Leon N. Lindberg 151 18 Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation-State and the Case of Western Europe Stanley Hoffmann 163 19 The Theory of Economic Integration: An Introduction Bela Balassa 179 PART 3 CURRENT DEBATES IN INTEGRATION THEORY 20 The Political Theory of Federalism: The Relevance of Classical Approaches Murray Forsyth 195 21 Integration, Supranational Governance, and the Institutionalization of the European Polity Alec Stone Sweet and Wayne Sandholtz 215 22- The Choice for Europe Andrew Moravcsik 239 23 Delegation and Agency in the European Community Mark A. Pollack 255 24 Multi-Level Governance in the European Union Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks 281 25 Making Sense of EU Decision-Making John Peterson and Elizabeth Bomberg 313 26 The Governance Approach to European Integration ( Markus Jachtenfuchs 335 'v27y Social Construction and European Integration Jeffrey T. Checkel 351 Index 361 About the Book 379.