dc.contributor.advisor	Kaminski, Bartlomiej
dc.contributor.author	McMahon, Mallory
dc.contributor.department	Government and Politics	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T13:17:18Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T13:17:18Z
dc.date.issued	2014-02-28
dc.description.abstract	The key question discussed in this dissertation concerns the future path that the European Union could take. Conceptual framework developed to answer this question derives from theories and concepts explaining the rise and decline of empires and the emergence and survival of regimes understood along the lines of hegemonic stability theory. This project involves a review of empire and regime formation theory as possible ways of examining the evolutionary path of the European Union. The European Union is compared to the Holy Roman Empire to analyze its similarities to an empire. Among others, this involves a review of European enlargement and the region’s political institution building as a characteristic of empires. By analyzing major forces driving the European integration in terms of both concepts, it is argued that the European Union is a hybrid regime with characteristics of an empire. I conclude that its survival depends on it retaining the characteristics of a regime rather than an empire.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/14983
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subject	European Union	en_US
dc.subject	Empire	en_US
dc.subject	Regime	en_US
dc.subject	Future	en_US
dc.title	A Hybrid Regime: The Future of the European Union	en_US
dc.type	undergraduate thesis	en_US

A Hybrid Regime: The Future of the European Union

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