Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Research Questions and Objectives 1.2 Theoretical Framework 1.3 Research Design and Methodology 1.4 Summary Chapter Two Neo-Functionalism 2.1 The Core Concepts of Neo-Functionalism 2.2 Critiques of Neo-Functionalism 2.3 Neo-Functionalism's Renaissance during the 1990s 2.4 Neo-Functionalism's Development in the New Millennium 2.5 Summary Chapter Three Intergovernmentalism 3.1 Hoffmann's Intergovernmentalism 3.2 Confederalism 3.3 The Domestic Politics Approach 3.4 The "Locking-in" of States 3.5 Moravcsik's LI (1998) and the Criticisms .. 3.6 LI Modified by Moravcsik and Schimmelfennig (2009) 3.7 LI and the EU Today 3.8 Summary Chapter Four Hypotheses Tests of Neo-Functionalism and New Insights Based on Case Studies 4.1 Evidence for HI : Economic Integration Leads to Political Integration 4.2 Evidence for H2: Conditions for Spillover and the Claim of a Slowed-Down EU Integration Pace 4.3 Evidence for H3 : Internal Dynamics of Institutionalization and Supranational Governance 4.4 Evidence for H4 : Institutional/Legalistic Spillover 4.5 Evidence for H5: Exogenous Spillover Chapter Five Hypotheses Tests of Intergovernmentalism and New Insights Based on Case Studies 5.1 Evidence for H6: A Criticism Levelled at LI's Predictions of the Impervious Informal Consensus Practice in the Council 5.2 Evidence for H7 : A Revised LI Three-Stage Framework 5.3 Evidence for H8: Impact of Exogenous Shocks from an LI Perspective Chapter Six Conclusions References