Sumário:
I - Parte - Visions of a United Europe, p. 1
1. The Ventotene Manifesto / Altiero Spinelli / Ernesto Rossi, p. 3
2. The Tragedy of Europe / Winston S. Churchill, p. 7
3. The Schuman Declaration / Robert Schuman, p. 13
4. Preambles to the Treaties Establishing the European Communities (Treaties of Paris and Rome), p. 15
5. A Ferment of Change / Jean Monnet, p. 19
6. A Concert of European States / Charles de Gaulle, p. 27
7. Preamble to the Single European Act, p. 45
8. A Family of Nations / Margaret Thatcher, p. 49
9. A Necessary Union / Jacques Delors, p. 55
10. Preamble to the Treaty on European Union (The Maastricht Treaty), p. 65
11. Preamble to the Treaty of Nice Amending the Treaty on European Union (The Nice Treaty), p. 67
12. Reflections on a Constitution for Europe / Joschka Fischer / Jacques Chirac / Tony Blair / Paavo Lipponen, p. 69
II - Parte - Early Currents in Integration Theory, p. 89
13. Altiero Spinelli and the Strategy for the United States of Europe / Sergio Pistone, p. 91
14. A Working peace System / David Mitrany, p. 99
15. Political Community and the North Atlantic Area / Karl W. Deutsch et al. , p. 121
16. The Uniting of Europe / Ernst B. Hass, p. 145
17. Political Integration: Definitions and Hypotheses / Leon N. Lindberg, p. 151
18. Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation-State and the Case of Western Europe / Stanley Hoffmann, p. 163
19. The Theory of Economic Integration: An Introduction / Bela Balassa, p. 179
III - Parte - Current Debates in Integration Theory, p. 193
20. The Political Theory of Federalism: The Relevance of Classical Approaches / Murray Forsyth, p. 195
21. Integration, Supranational Governance, and the Institutionalization of the European Polity / Alec Stone Sweet / Wayne Sandholtz, p. 215
22. The Choice for Europe / Andrew Moravcsik, p. 239
23. Delegation and Agency in the European Community / Mark A. Pollack, p. 255
24. Multi-Level Governance in the European Union / Liesbet Hooghe / Gary Marks, p. 281
25. Making Sense of EU Decisison-Making / John Peterson / Elizabeth Bomberg, p. 313
26. The Governance Approach to European Integration / Markus Jachtenfuchs, p. 335
27. Social Construction and European Integration / Jeffrey T. Checkel, p. 351

Resumo:
This new edition of the leading reader on European Integration makes conveniently available to students the key texts of politicians and scholars. The first section, presents the visions of the primary shapers of the union now including the reflections of current European leaders on a constitution for Europe. The second section brings together the classics of EU studies as scholars struggled to apply the contending approaches of federalism, functionalism, neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism to understand postwar European integration. The third - comprehensively revised and updated - section explores recent theoretical developments in scholarship.