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Dr Dermot Hodson publishes a new book on the changing politics of European integration.

The New Intergovernmentalism: States and Supranational Actors in the Post Maastricht Era – edited by Dermot Hodson (Birkbeck), Christopher Bickerton (University of Cambridge) and Uwe Puetter (Central European University) has been published by Oxford University Press.

The New Intergovernmentalism: States and Supranational Actors in the Post Maastricht Era – edited by Dermot Hodson (Birkbeck), Christopher Bickerton (University of Cambridge) and Uwe Puetter (Central European University) has been published by Oxford University Press. The twenty years since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty have been marked by an integration paradox: although the scope of European Union (EU) activity has increased at an unprecedented pace, member states have become increasingly reluctant to empower supranational institutions along traditional lines. This book makes sense of this paradox by putting forward a theoretical approach – the new intergovernmentalism – which challenges conventional assumptions about what states and supranational institutions want and where the dividing line between high and low politics is located. The fifteen chapters in this volume by leading political scientists, political economists, and legal scholars explore the scope and limits of the new intergovernmentalism as a theory of post-Maastricht integration and draw conclusions about the profound state of political disequilibrium in which the EU now operates.

For further details about the book, see:

http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198703617.do

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0198703619

For a debate about the new intergovernmentalism between the book’s editors and Frank Schimmelfennig (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), see Vol. 53/4 of the Journal of Common Market Studies:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcms.v53.4/issuetoc

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