New book: European Integration and the Problem of the State

New book: European Integration and the Problem of the State

21 September 2015

European Integration and the Problem of the State - A Critique of the Bordering of Europe by Stefan Borg

European integration has in many ways been an important attempt to institute a form of political organization that moves beyond the state. For many of the early proponents of European integration, the nation state had become associated with militarism, jingoism and the many devastating wars on the European continent. Drawing on post-structuralist theoretical advances, this book compares practices of European integration with practices of statecraft and argues that far from transcending the modern state form, the practices of European integration in many ways reproduce it.

"The EU has long been seen as a major challenge to the modern territorial society of states. In this masterful volume, Stefan Borg develops an overdue antidote to the prevailing discourse. His argument that the EU is engaging in statecraft makes a prime contribution to the debate about the EU as a normative power in world politics. Future theorising of the EU's international role cannot ignore Borg's forceful reasoning." - Professor Thomas Diez, Department of Political Science, University of Tuebingen, Germany

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