[...]... Pollitt, Sandra van Thiel, and Vicky Balsem INTRODUCTION: COOPERATION AND INTEGRATION AMONG EUROPEANIZED STATES Markus Haverland and Ronald Holzhacker European integration has come along way since early visionaries such as Jean Monnet set forth the basic idea of Europe The three communities formed in the immediate post-war period, the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC, 1951), the European Atomic... separating Europeanization and European integration chronologically In other words to take a temporal approach and by explicitly asking – how has the Europeanization experience impacted on (the preferences for) modes of cooperation and integration among the member states? We suggest three mechanisms which drive European integration and cooperation forward: socialisation, path dependency, and learning... greater appreciation for the development 1 R Holzhacker and M Haverland, (eds.), European Research Reloaded: Cooperation and Integration among Europeanized States, 1-17 © 2006 Springer Printed in the Netherlands 2 Haverland and Holzhacker of multi-level governance over time, as a kind of cork-screw rotating continuously with top-down and bottom-up processes of interaction between levels of governance... understanding domestic political change and continuity A specific 1 Ellen Mastenbroek is assistant professor at the department of public administration, Radboud University Nijmegen Mendeltje van Keulen is research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for International Relations ‘Clingendael’ 19 R Holzhacker and M Haverland, (eds.), European Research Reloaded: Cooperation and Integration among Europeanized. .. territoriality and European integration in the policy areas of healthcare and security In 2005, he co-authored and co-edited a volume on euroscepticism in the Netherlands PREFACE The Three Waves of European Research European cooperation and integration has continued to progress forward over the past five decades, with an ever deepening impact on the member states The first wave of research into these... INTRODUCTION Research on the EU has gone through three analytical phases (Holzhacker and Haverland, this volume) The first wave was focused ‘bottom-up’, explaining processes of European integration and the coming about of the European Union A next strand of research from the top down, the question being how member states respond to the demands flowing from EU membership Europeanization research takes integration. .. affected current modes of integration and cooperation in the EU? Part I Europeanization of the Member States Preparing the ground for the third wave, the first part of the book concerns Europeanization In order to fully understand the feedback of Europeanization on cooperation and integration it is important to analyze how European integration has had an impact on member states in the first place,... different than earlier periods.2 The current period of cooperation and integration among Europeanized states is thus characterized by larger variation and generally looser types of cooperation which allow the member states a greater degree of control over the impact of these policies on the member states – thus their Europeanization Some of these new forms of cooperation began earlier, but their use has now... Holzhacker, Ronald and Erik Albaek, forthcoming 2006, Democratic Governance and European Integration: Linking Societal and State Processes of Democracy Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Hooghe, L & G Marks 2001, Multilevel Governance and European Integration, Oxford, Rowman and Littlefield Hooghe, L and G Marks 2004, The Neo-functionalist were (almost) right: Politicization and European Integration, In The... concerned European integration, the process of institution building and policy developments at the European Union (EU) level The second wave, on Europeanization used integration as an explanatory factor in understanding domestic political change and continuity related to the EU What is now necessary is to link our understanding of these ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ processes of integration and Europeanization . in the Netherlands. R. Holzhacker and M. Haverland, (eds.), European Research Reloaded: Cooperation and Integration among Europeanized States, 1-17. . x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" EUROPEAN RESEARCH RELOADED: AND INTEGRATION AMONG EUROPEANIZED STATES COOPERATION Library of Public Policy and Public Administration Volume