THE EUROPEANIZATION OF BRITISH POLITICS Thierry Balzacq (editor) THE EXTERNAL DIMENSION OF EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS

摘要: Though the final goals of European integration have long been subject to debate, there was little doubt that the main concerns lay squarely within Europe. In Alan Milward's seminal account, national governments were concerned, above all, to meet the rising expectations of their own populations, particularly in the domain of economic welfare (Milward, 1992). In Andrew Moravcsik's account of integration, economic interests within European states are defended through interstate bargains (Moravcsik, 1998). In both cases, the interaction between economics and politics within Europe lies at the heart of European integration. In the neo-functionalist canon, integration occurs through depoliticized'spill-over'effects: forward movement in one policy area begets-rather in the manner of the dictum:'give them an inch and they will take a mile'-further integration in another area. Excluded from this logic, however, is foreign and …