European integration has in many ways been an important attempt to institute a form of political organization that moves beyond the state. For many of the early proponents of European integration, the nation state had become associated with militarism, jingoism and the many devastating wars on the European continent. Drawing on post-structuralist theoretical advances, this book compares practices of European integration with practices of statecraft and argues that far from transcending the modern state form, the practices of European integration in many ways reproduce it. Borg asserts that the project of European integration is plagued by similar ethico-political dilemmas as the modern state, and is ultimately animated by a similar desire to either expel or interiorize difference. In critically examining the practices of European integration, Borg questions whether they may be said to go beyond modern statecraft and what is at stake in such attempts.
