The Prospects and Challenges from Diversity to Enhanced Cooperation in European Integration.

• Main Authors: Pei-Fei Chang, 張白霏
• Other Authors: Tsai ,Tzung-Jen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35660615595068269831

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 歐洲研究所 === 91 === Institutionalized European integration began when six western European countries signed the Paris treaty in 1951 for the EC whose supranational organization model elevated prosperity in the economic area. The value of diversity was ensured when Masstricht Treaty introduced the European Union model. Amsterdam Treaty emphasized deepening and expanding by employing the mechanism of closer cooperation, which indicated that diversity obviously has become an operative institution under the European Union system for further integration. Later, Nice Treaty expanded the applicable area of enhanced cooperation. The development from the idea of “diversity” to enhanced cooperation institutionalized in European Union treaties under the concept of European integration is the focus of the thesis, which draws upon insights from Masstricht Treaty, Amsterdam Treaty, and Nice Treaty. Due to the revelation that in the by keeping the existing supranationalism in the integration movement, insufficiencies have occurred along the way, institutionalized diversity demonstrates the need for different methods of integration apart from the existing supranational model to keep the project going in order to achieve possible ultimate total communitarization. This is the core issue and value of introducing enhanced cooperation. Structure of the thesis is as follows: 1.Introductory of research motive, frame and limits. 2.Taken from historical perspective to discuss the institutionalized development of diversity ranging from European Communities to the establishment of European Union three pillars model. 3.Concentrates on examining liberal intergovernmentalism (LI) in explaining enhanceed cooperation from the concept of diversity. from the perspective of. A LI Plus theory is regarded as a proper theoretical base for enhanceed cooperation because it takes into the perspectives of grand bargains and everyday politics. A hub-like enhanced cooperation structure based on LI is proposed for further research benefit on analyzing enhanced cooperation with various integration theories. 4. Discusses the legitimacy of enhanced cooperation in Amsterdam Treaty and Nice Treaty about how flexibility is implemented. 5.Focuses on the prospects of enhanced cooperation in European integration.