The evolving concept of flexible integration within the European union : a tool for managing diversity?

Date

2004

Author

Er, Başak

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This thesis scrutinizes أflexible integrationؤ as an evolving concept within the European Union. It aims to understand the framework in which the debate on flexibility has taken place before the institutionalisation of the mechanism with the Treaty of Amsterdam through examining the different conceptualisations, past examples and the political debate associated with these examples. After analysing the Treaty provisions on flexible integration, the thesis attempts to answer the question whether this mechanism can be perceived as a tool for managing diversity in economic and political sense.

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Political Institutions and Public Administration. Europe.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605525/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14498

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Theses