European Integration and its Limits

European Integration and Its Limits is an exemplary work of scholarship, combining sound theory building and rigorous empirical testing. It represents one of the most sophisticated efforts to uncover the fundamental dynamics of European integration, and it demonstrates convincingly not only the domestic origins of governmental treaty reform positions, but also the interdependence between governmental preferences and EU institutional reforms. A major contribution to the study of international institutions, both as equilibrium and as rules of the game. -- Xinyuan Dai, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

What Andrew Moravcsik's book on the treaties from Messina to Maastricht did with historical detail, Daniel Finke does with analytical rigour for the treaties from Maastricht to Lisbon. He provides an impressively solid and innovative account of how the member states of the European Union addressed their 'constitutional quandary' in a series of reforms. A must-read for all students of the European Union interested in the latter's 'constitutional' development. -- Simon Hug, Université de Genève

Daniel Finke is a junior professor for political science at the University of Heidelberg. He received his doctorate at the University of Mannheim and his dissertation is a politico-economic analysis of Constitutional Politics in the European Union. His research on constitutional and comparative politics has been published in European Union Politics, the Journal of Common Market Studies, the Journal of European Public Policy, Political Studies, the Review of International Organizations and the Journal of Theoretical Politics. Currently, he is conducting a research project on 'European Legislative Responses to International Terrorism' as well as a project on legislative behaviour inside the European Parliament.