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1 Introduction
2 Explaining European Integration: Contending Approaches in IR Theory and Political Science
2.1 Neorealism and the Intergovernmental Perspective: National Governments as Central Actors in the Bargaining of International Outcomes
2.2 Neoliberalism and the Neofunctionalist Legacy: the Logic of Spillover Effects and Sequential Integration of Different Social Sectors
2.3 Constructivist Approaches: Transnational Discourses, Social Learning and the Impact of Europeanisation
3 Classical Foreign Policy Analysis and its Shortcomings: Challenges to the Conventional Study of Foreign Policy in an Emerging Context of Multi-level Governance
3.1 The EU as a Complex Political System sui generis: Why Traditional IR Theory Cannot Account for Many Developments in the ‘European Realm’
3.2 A Synthetic View of European Union Foreign Policy-making: Bridging the Gap between Rationalist and Interpretative Analysis?
4 Conclusion: a Variety of Theories for a Variety of Questions
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- Dipl.-Pol., MSc (IR) Jan-Henrik Petermann (Author), 2005, Theories of the Making of European Union Foreign Policy, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/182619
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