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Comparing Common Markets: A Revised Neo-Functionalist Model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

J. S. Nye
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There are several approaches to regional integration, both in actor's strategies and in academic analysis. One of the pioneering political science efforts at providing a causal model of regional integration was developed under the stimulus of events in Western Europe in the late 1950's and not surprisingly it reflects these origins. We will refer to it as academic neo-functionalism.

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International Organization , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , Autumn 1970 , pp. 796 - 835
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1970

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A member of the Board of Editors of International Organization, is an associate professor in the Government Department at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The author is grateful to Hayward Alker, Lawrence Finkelstein, Ernst Haas, Stanley Hoffmann, Harold Jacobson, Peter Katzenstein, Robert Keohane, Uwe Kitzinger, Leon Lindberg, Stuart Scheingold, Philippe Schmitter, and Robert van Schaik for their comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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2 Nor is it well suited for the analysis of hegemonic (e.g., France-Monaco) and coercive integration (e.g., nineteenth-century Germany) in which the preferences of one partner tend to determine the process. We deal with the ambiguities of symmetry in some detail below.

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