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Book SynopsisWhy European integration fuels state disintegration.
Trade Review“Dardanelli’s argument that European integration has contributed to an important extent to state restructuring is interesting and innovative, and a helpful perspective through which he addresses the book’s main research question – how autonomist political parties’ rhetorical ‘use’ of European integration contribute to a country’s decentralization process – has not been explored before.” Ruben Zaiotti, Dalhousie University and the author of Cultures of Border Control: Schengen and the Evolutions of European Frontiers
"In this theoretically and methodologically sophisticated work, Dardanelli provides the most thorough and systematic empirical examination of this question to date. He concludes that European integration has had complex, multifaceted, and paradoxical impacts on state restructuring, but its strongest influence is in countries with preexisting tendencies toward regional nationalism, such as Belgium, the UK and Spain; it has much less impact in other countries. Recommended." Choice
