{"id":1491,"date":"2026-08-09T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/do-you-agree-with-the-view-that-the-eu-has-thus-far-proved-to-be-upsc-psir-2024-3609\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:24:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:54:58","slug":"do-you-agree-with-the-view-that-the-eu-has-thus-far-proved-to-be-upsc-psir-2024-3609","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/do-you-agree-with-the-view-that-the-eu-has-thus-far-proved-to-be-upsc-psir-2024-3609\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you agree with the view that the EU has thus far proved to be the most successful experiment in the regional integration processes? Account for its successes and also some of the recent challenges that it is faced with."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> EU as the \u201cgold standard\u201d <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> travelled furthest, from economic pact to supranational order <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> that depth explains both success and strain \/<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> judge the \u201cexperiment\u201d by how far sovereignty was pooled <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> only the EU crossed from pact into supranational order <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> the same crossing is where the strain now falls<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>ECSC 1951 \/ coal + steel \/ war \u201cmaterially impossible\u201d <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Schuman<\/b> + <b class=\"pq-sc\">Monnet<\/b> \/ community method over balance of power <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Haas<\/b> \/ spillover: gains in one sector push members into the next <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> common market 1957 <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Maastricht 1992 \/ Union created \/ foreign policy, security, justice <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> single market + euro + Schengen + enlargement <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> sovereignty pooled, not surrendered <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Nobel 2012 <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> strain falls where integration is deepest <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Eurozone crisis 2008\u201309 \/ monetary union without matching economic integration <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Stiglitz<\/b> \/ imbalances pushed onto weaker economies \/ Greece <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Brexit 2016 \/ limits of supranationalism \/ persistence of sovereignty <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Euroscepticism \/ National Rally, AfD, Law and Justice <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> resurgent Russia \/ Crimea 2014, Ukraine 2022 \/ energy shock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>intergovernmentalist reply <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Moravcsik<\/b> \/ national preferences + interstate bargaining \/ member states still in charge <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Thompson<\/b> \/ \u201cregionalism is out, sovereignty back in\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> Union deepened after a major power left <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> strategic autonomy as the answer to Russian and American pressure <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> still the benchmark \/<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> agree, on the question\u2019s own qualifier \u201cthus far\u201d <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> deepest experiment, not a finished one <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> tested, but not displaced as the 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