Starting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and international relations studies in the twentieth century, has entered a transition toward something new, noted political scientist Leslie F. Goldstein examines the development of the European Union by blending comparative and historical institutionalist approaches. She argues that the most useful framework for understanding the kinds of -supra-state- formations that are increasingly apparent in the beginning of the third millennium is comparative analysis...
Starting from the premise that the system of independent, sovereign, territorial states, which was the subject of political science and internation...