European Studies Quarterly

Assumptions of the theory of regional disintegration: suggestions for further research

2016, 2016 (42), No. 4

Tomasz Grzegorz Grosse

0000-0002-7270-8900

DOI

10.31338/1641-2478pe.4.16.1

Publication date

30.04.2017

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Social sciences

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economics and finance, communication and media studies, political science and public administration, management and quality studies, law, sociology, international relations

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English

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Abstract

The crises that hit the EU after 2008 brought about disintegration tendencies. That requires not only further in-depth research on the state of the Union, but also theoretical conceptualisation facilitating an explanation of the processes of disintegration. In this article four theoretical approaches to carry out this type of analysis are proposed, which in a multilateral way may help to explain the problems of the regional disintegration in Europe, but also in other regions of the world. Author’s approach is based on existing theoretical concepts: neofunctionalism, constructivism, institutionalism and realism. Author seeks the complementarity between the theoretical approaches in order to explain the phenomenon of disintegration.

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