Ernst HaasThinkers

The European Union is, (by analogy to its forerunner), best understood as an integrating entity whose underlying driver is the idea that international institutions might socialize bureaucrats and policy actors such that they engage in building cooperation and policy instruments across an ever-expanding range of policy areas beyond the nation-state.

The European Union is, (by analogy to its forerunner), best understood as an integrating entity whose underlying driver is a functional mechanism called spillover, whereby supranational integration in one policy area creates incentives for integration in others, and in the process national policy actors come to identify with the European level and hence supranational forms of governance as a more effective way of regulating matters that would normally be left to national law or politics.

A Picture is the expression of an impression. We recognize the beautiful because it is in us.

Style is the extension of one's personality. It has no formula, as it is the summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience.