Whose Europe is it anyway? The 1998 Stein Rokkan lecture

This article addresses the issue of whether a model of deep European integr ation might be envisaged in a continent-wide process that might accompany e astern enlargement of the European Union. The paper argues that deep integr ation in Western Europe has been built on three dimensions: the functional; the territorial; and affiliational. The articulation of these three dimens ions has evolved through not only the EU, but also a dense pattern of other transnational linkages, including those between immediate neighbours. More over, different west European countries have been linked into this process through varied patterns for `domesticating' Europe. Efforts to develop an E U polity require the interplay of all three dimensions of integration, a to ugh goal for post-cold-war Europe in the western part of the continent, let alone in `pan-Europe'.