Sebastian Rosato

Summer 2012

"Correspondence: Debating the Sources and Prospects of European Integration"

Journal Article, International Security, issue 1, volume 37

By Ulrich Krotz, Richard Maher, David M. McCourt, Andrew Glencross, Norrin M. Ripsman, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, January–June 2011, Mark Sheetz, Associate, International Security Program, Jean-Yves Haine and Sebastian Rosato, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2005–2006

Ulrich Krotz and Richard Maher, David M. McCourt and Andrew Glencross, Norrin M. Ripsman, Mark S. Sheetz and Jean-Yves Haine respond to Sebastian Rosato's spring 2011 article, "Europe’s Troubles: Power Politics and the State of the European Project."

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May 2011

"A Bleak Future for the European Project"

Policy Brief

By Sebastian Rosato, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2005–2006

"...[A]bsent an overwhelming threat, the Europeans have had little reason to maintain their economic union. This is not to argue that the demise of the Soviet Union has given them a reason to dismantle the EU—only that it has removed their incentive to preserve it. Consequently, the EU has started to fray as member states have put national interests ahead of those of the union."

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Spring 2011

"Europe's Troubles: Power Politics and the State of the European Project"

Journal Article, International Security, issue 4, volume 35

By Sebastian Rosato, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2005–2006

The 1990s were years of great optimism in Europe. As the Europeans were putting the finishing touches on their economic community, observers pre­dicted that political and military integration would soon follow. Optimism has turned to pessimism since the turn of the century, however. Most analysts believe that the economic community is in crisis, and hardly anyone predicts the creation of a political or military counterpart to it. Why has the European project run into trouble and what does the future hold? The answers to these questions are largely to be found in the distribution of power. It was the over­whelming power of the Soviet Union that drove the Western Europeans to consider a variety of integration initiatives and to build and maintain the European Community (EC) during the Cold War. In 1991 the collapse of the Soviet Union deprived them of a compelling geostrategic reason to pursue further integration or even to preserve their economic community. As a result, the Europeans have made no real effort to establish a political or military com­munity over the past two decades, and the EC has slowly started to fray. As long as there are no significant changes in the balance of power going forward, worse times lie ahead.

June, 2006

Revolutionary Thinking (Book Review of Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order by Jeffrey W. Legro)

Journal Article, International Studies Review, issue 2, volume 8

By Sebastian Rosato, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2005–2006

September 22, 2005

"The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory"

Book Chapter

By Sebastian Rosato, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2005–2006

This chapter was originally published as "The Flawed Logic of Democratic Peace Theory", American Political Science Review, 97, no. 4, November 2003, pp. 585–602. It is also available as part of Among Nations: Readings in International Relations (Foreign Affairs, Pearson Custom Publication, 2006).

August, 2005

Explaining the Democratic Peace

Journal Article, American Political Science Review, issue 3, volume 99

By Sebastian Rosato, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2005–2006