Der Zweckverband Funktioneller Integration Nach Hans Peter Ipsen: Ein Beitrag Zur Begriffsgeschichte Und Zur Finalitatsdebatte in Der Europawissenscha

»The >Special-Purpose Association of Functional Integration< According to Hans Peter Ipsen. A Contribution to the History of Concepts and to the Debate on finality in European Studies«: The question of its finality has accompanied the process of European unification since its beginning. Hans Peter Ipsen made a powerful contribution to this discussion with his technocratic description of the European Communities as >special-purpose associations of functional integration<. This study traces the genesis and reception of this concept and examines its topicality in the context of current debates on the finality of European integration.