The Politics of European Dis-integration.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24653037
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: ENDO Ken 北海道大学, 大学院公共政策学連携研究部, 教授 (00281775)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: EU / グローバル化 / ヨーロッパ / 統合 / 逆統合 / 欧州 / 危機 / 地域主義

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The research project was highly productive, as it went through its final year. Following the publication of a big tome last year (“The End of Integration,” Iwanami), I have edited the new version of “History of European Integration,” and published a number of articles, while presenting our arguments on so many occasions. With the case study of Euro crisis, I have clarified the mechanism with which the processes of both integration and disintegration proceed. There are the incentives both to avert anger on the part of assisted member states and to take direct responsibility on the part of assisting states, thereby delegating to Brussels, and at the same time to carefully avoid excessively shouldering the risks, amid the accumulated mistrust.
I intend to make use of this observation when overhauling the next edition of “History of European Integration,” which will be the theme of the next large-scale MEXT project.

Free Research Field

社会科学