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level: Lecture + Chapter 1: Understanding Integration

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level questions: Lecture + Chapter 1: Understanding Integration

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What is a State?A legal and political entity that has a government, population, territory, legitimacy, and sovereignty.
What is an International Organization?A body set up to promote cooperation between or among states based on the principles of voluntary cooperation, communal management and shared interests.
What is a Nation?A cultural entity and community whose members identify with each other based on shared language, history, culture, territory and symbols.
What is Nationalism?A belief in the value of preserving the identity of a nation and promoting its interests.
What is Regional Integration?The promotion of cooperation and collective action among a group of states with the pooling of resources and the creation of opportunities.
What is Communal Management in the context of International Organizations?International organizations organize themselves and make decisions based on the shared views of their members.
What are the 4 qualities/principals of an International Organization according Chapter 1?Voluntary cooperation, communal management, shared interests and minimal autonomy.
What are the 4 Freedoms of the Single Market?Goods, services, people and capital.
What is Functionalism?A theory describes that if states create functionally specific institutions, regional integration will develop and peace can be achieved through a web of interstate ties without the need for an intergovernmental agreement.
What is the Functional Spillover Effect?If you start to integrate on one level of policy area, it results in pressure that extends authority to other policy areas. It's like an invisible hand mechanism.
Give an example of a Functional Spillover.The pooling of coal and steel policies which result in pressure to extend authority to other policy areas.
What is Neo-functionalism?A theory of European integration, which suggests that multiple actors play a role in the integration process, which is driven by a process of spillover.
What is Integrative Potential?A measure of the extent to which states will be able to integrate successfully, based on a combination of economic and political factors.
What is Intergovernmentalism?This theory sees the EU as a meeting place in which representatives from member states negotiate with each other in an attempt to achieve a consensus, but pursue state interest while paying less attention to the broader interests of the community of states.
What are 4 Aspects of Intergovernmentalism?The state is central and is self-centred, governments have interests and engage in power games and provoke and trigger conflicts
What is Supranationalism?A theory and model based on the idea that IGO's become the forum for the promotion of joint interests of states involved in cooperation and that there is a transfer of authority.
What is Liberal Intergovernmentalism?A theory of European Integration combining elements of neo-functionalism and intergovernmentalism argues that it is beneficial for states of Europe to integrate because of self-interest and this results in European integration.
What is Realism?A theory that argues that we live in a global system and that international relations are driven by a struggle for power among self-interested states.