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| | 3 - EUROPEAN SECURITY INTEGRATION IN THE 1990s |
 | | Integration is the combination of diverse parts to make a whole, and international integration is the product of a process of convergence between the policies, procedures, institutions, commitments, and expectations of a number of different states and peoples. |
 | | European integration is not merely a means to utilitarian ends such as security or prosperity, but a cause, a form of ideology. |
 | | To analyse European integration exclusively in terms of bargaining among utility-maximizing states or individuals, European integration as a cooperative solution to nation-state problems, or as a forerunner of a `post-historical' global system, is to misunderstand this political commitment and miss the character of the European movement. |
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