Books reviewed in this article: Accountability and Legitimacy in the European Union, edited by A. Arnull and D. Wincott Accountability in the European Union, by C. Harlow Les Commissaires Europeans: Technocrates, diplomates ou politiques? by J. Joana and A. Smith Between Empire and Alliance:...

This article notes a lack of communication between two broad schools of scholarship on regional integration: EU studies and analyses of the 'new regionalism'. It is argued that the existence of this divide, which is perpetrated by proponents of both schools, is an impediment to the elaboration...

Re-reading Schumpeter's classic Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in the present context is a curious but, I believe, sobering experience. A liberal and a capitalist, Schumpeter nevertheless believed the future lay with socialism. Following Weber, he maintained that the increasingly cartelized...