The Future of European Political Cooperation Essays on Theory and Practice [Hardcover]

This collected volume of essays focuses on two complementary themes: firstly, the theoretical approaches to the study of European Political Cooperation; and secondly, the empirical analysis of EPC activity. The volume does not argue one particular approach to the study of EPC, but rather presents competing, and often conflicting, theoretical perspectives. At the empirical level, a future research agenda is suggested and it is argued that EPC research should become comparative in nature.Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: EPC Theory and Empiricismm; M.Holland & A.E.Pijpers - European Political Cooperation and the Realist Paradigm; A.E.Pijpers - The EC, EPC and the Decline of Bipolarity; P.Tsakaloyannis - European Political Cooperation: a World System Perspective; S.George - Analysing EPC: the Case for a Two-Tier Analysis; S.Bulmer - Western Europe's Presence in the International Arena; D.Allen & M.Smith - EPC and the Single Act: from Soft law to Hard law; R.Dehousse & J.H.H.Weiler - EPC After the Single Act: Towards a European Foreign Policy via Treaty Obligations; W.Wessels - The Twelve's Dialogue with Third Countries: Progress Towards a 'Communaut d'action'?; E.Regelsberger - Sanctions as an EPC Instrument; M.Holland - Index