INTBUS 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Europeanisation, Big Bang, Robert Schuman
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Neofunctionalism critiqued realism and led to a counter-theory from within a broadly state- centered perspective, known as intergovernmentalism. Neofunctionalism (ernst haas 1958, leon lindberg 1963 and philippe schmitter. It was a counter argument to the neofunctionalist analysis of european integration. It drew on realist assumptions about the role of states. There were three parts to hoffman"s criticism of neofunctionalism: 1) european integration had to be viewed in a global context regional integration was only a part of the development of the global international system. Neofunctionalism (ernst haas 1958, leon lindberg 1963 and philippe schmitter 1970) . Monnet had a functional approach to integration idea of eurotom. This view came from the debate between neofunctionalism and intergovernmentalism it was an approach that drew on transactionalism of karl deutsch and on new institutionalism as applied to the eu (although the authors linked the approach to neofunctionalism).