期刊名称：European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
印刷版ISSN：1307-6000
电子版ISSN：1307-6035
出版年度：2009
期号：2
页码：41-60
语种：English
出版社：Fatih University
摘要：The introductory article to this special issue pursues two main objectives, one empirical the other theoretical. This paper investigates the European Coal and Steel Community, established in 1951, as an empirical reality. After explaining the historical background of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the paper tries to explain the ECSC through functionalist approach or theory, which is very debatable among scholars. The paper then concludes that at the very beginning the best way to understand the process of European integration within the framework of theoretical conceptualization is to take functionalism as an approach or perhaps a mid-range theory what Simon Hix (2004) used.
