The European Union in the International System

The European Union is a group of liberal-democratic countries, acting collectively through an institutionalized system of decision-making”(Michelle Cini). When joining the EU, members sign up not only to the body of EU treaties, legislation and norms, but also to a set of shared common values, based on democracy, human rights, and principles of social justice. Even so, members, and indeed the European institutions, are keen to stress the diversity of the Union, most obviously in cultural and l...

Robert Kagan, in this book, emphasizes the role of power in the international relations despite during his career he has been a sever critic of the foreign-policy realists because they don't take into account the ideology, democracy and morality.

Can one theory explain European Integration? Problem of definitions – What is integration? Karl Deutsch  outcome = ‘sense of community’ Ernest Haas  ‘process’ of creating a community