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The plurality of truth : a critique of research on the state and European integration / Hanna Ojanen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ojanen, Hanna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Research.
- Political science.
- State, The--Research.
- State, The.
- European Union--Scandinavia.
- European Union.
- Europe--Economic integration.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 377 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Brookfield, USA : Ashgate, [1998]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: troubling concepts and theories 1
- Are there inadmissible concepts? 1
- Conventional research practice and its consequences for the study of the state and integration 16
- Depicting plurality 21
- 2 Approaches to the relationship between the state and integration 33
- Integration as a solution to the problems of the state and the system of states 34
- Integration as a process in which the state is weakened or replaced 40
- The state which strengthens itself through integration 53
- Integration which transforms the state 79
- 3 Causes and consequences 105
- The state of the art in integration studies: a self-portrait with some corrective remarks 105
- The crucial assumptions and questions 115
- Origins of the assumptions 119
- 4 Opting for integration: the slow retreat of Nordic cooperation 189
- EU enlargement: a push towards a necessary reappraisal of Nordic cooperation 189
- The symptomatic failures of the grand designs in security and economy 190
- The low profile of Nordic achievements 198
- Nordic institutions: deliberately in a minor role 203
- Implications for the encounter with European integration 209
- The challenge of the EU: increasing incompatibility 210
- 5 Nordic integration: elements of a model 229
- The 1990s: new dynamism for Nordic cooperation 229
- The peculiar extent and methods of Nordic integration 231
- The acquis nordique 246
- Meeting of two methods of integration 256
- 6 Finnish EU membership: an integration policy turned on its head 269
- The customary principles of neutrality and sovereignty in Finnish integration policy 269
- The EEA: a step into a whirlpool 276
- The rhetoric of application and the implications of membership 284
- 7 EU membership: a new dimension to Finland's integration 303
- The logic of membership 303
- Neutrality: the cold war means in Finnish integration policy 306
- The implications of membership 320
- 8 Conclusion: the plurality of interpretation 331
- Constructing knowledge 331
- Possibilities and limits of scientific analysis 344
- The plurality of truth and credibility of research 347.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-377).
- ISBN:
- 1840144025
- OCLC:
- 39195394
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