Negotiating the Single European Act: National Interests and Conventional Statecraft in the European Community

Sandholtz and Zysman (Chapter 18) argued that supranational actors played a major role in relaunching Europe. Neofunctionalism was suddenly back in style among many students of the European Community, who now saw spillover everywhere. Realists, who assume that nation states operating in an anarchic (or near-anarchic) world are still the most important international actors, eventually reacted to the emphasis on supranational institutions and processes with their own explanation of recent events in Europe.