Thinking about the European Union

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Joseph S. Nye, Peace in Parts: Integration and Conflict in Regional Organization, Little, Brown, Boston, 1971. 2. W. Andrew Axline, ‘Comparative Case Studies of Regional Cooperation among Developing Countries’, in W. Andrew Axline (ed.), The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation: Comparative Case Studies, Pinter, London, 1994, p. 29. 3. Steven J. Rosen and Walter S. Jones, The Logic of International Relations, Wintrop, Cambridge, 1980, p. 89. 4. William Wallace, Regional Integration: The West European Experience, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, 1994, p. 11. 5. For an understanding of the Federalist approach see P. Hay, Federalism and Supranational Organization, University of Illinois Press, London, 1966. 6. For details, see Ernst B. Haas, ‘The Study of Regional Integration’, in Leon N. Lindberg and Stuart A. Scheingold (eds.), Regional Integration: Theory and Research, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1971. 7. For a detailed study, see Karl W. Deutsch, Sidney A. Burrell, Robert A. Kann, Maurice Lee, Jr., Martin Lichterman, Raymond E. Lindgren, Francis L. Loewenheim, and Richard W. Van Wagenen, Political Community and the North Atlantic Area: International Organizations in the light of Historical Experience, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1957. 8. Paul Taylor, International Organization in the Modern World: The Regional and the Global Process, Pinter, London, 1993. 9. Joseph Nye made a distinction between ‘soft power’ being non-military (such as in the economic field) and persuasive, and ‘hard power’ having military capacity and being coercive.