Edexcel: Global politics, Regionalism and the EU
There are three main theories about how the EU should be integrated. First, federalism, which argues for the most significant level of integration, whereby states hand over some of their sovereign power to a central authority. It is argued that when states pool their sovereignty in this way they are better equipped to deal with global issues and therefore each individual member state is strengthened by the alliance. Second, functionalism, which is the idea that integration should be adopted for certain functions only, thus limiting the impact on sovereignty. Third, neofunctionalism, which argues that initially there will be certain functions that should be fulfilled by regionalism (Box 1), but over time these may develop and therefore ‘spill over’ into other areas, thus there is a mixed impact on sovereignty.
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