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Account for the rise of European Union as a highly influential regional organisation.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 15 marks
  • Regionalisation of World Politics

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From six states pooling coal and steel in 1951, the European Union has grown into a 27-member polity whose law, market and standards reach far beyond Europe. Its rise was not inevitable: historical, external, institutional and economic factors interacted, and governments repeatedly chose to deepen integration.

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  • 1. A catastrophe and an idea
  • 2. A favourable external setting
  • 3. Supranational institutions and law
  • 4. Deepening the economy
  • 5. Enlargement and conditionality
  • 6. Adaptation through crisis
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion
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