A study of interdependence in international politics on the example of the European Union

Abstract

The Master’s Essay aims to analyze the phenomenon of interdependence in international politics. Given broadness of the subject, however, the work focuses on one region of the world and investigates interdependence on a concrete example. So, countries comprising European Union and type of the relationship among them are investigated. For that purpose, the structure of the European Union with its institutions and policies are explored. The current work itself, which examines different approaches of the theory of international relations, turns to be the mixture of the two ever-conflicting approaches – idealist and realist ones with more emphasis on the idealist approach. More emphasis in favor of liberalist approach is explained by the fact that European Union having undergone failures on the road to integration appeared to turn into economic and political entity with common values and policies and continues to strive for further integration.