{"id":231,"date":"2010-11-23T11:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T15:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/ces\/eulearning\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T13:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T17:22:54","slug":"extension-of-blind-men-elephants-and-international-integration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ces\/eulearning\/introduction\/what-is-the-eu\/extension-of-blind-men-elephants-and-international-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Extension: Of Blind Men, Elephants and International Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Donald Puchala<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Several blind men approached an elephant and each touched the animal in an effort to discover what the beast looked like. Each blind man, however, touched a different part of the large animal, and each concluded that the elephant had the appearance of the part he had touched. Hence, the blind man who felt the animal&#8217;s trunk concluded that an elephant must be tall and slender, while the fellow who touched the beast&#8217;s ear concluded that an elephant must be oblong and flat. Others of course reached different conclusions. The total result was that no man arrived at a very accurate description of the elephant. Yet each man had gained enough evidence from his own experience to disbelieve his fellows and to maintain a lively debate about the nature of the beast.&#8221; [1]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ces\/eulearning\/introduction\/what-is-the-eu\/extension-of-blind-men-elephants-and-international-integration-2\/\">What is Puchala getting at with this story?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. Donald Puchala. \u201cOf Blind Men, Elephants and International Integration.\u201d Journal of Common Market Studies. Vol. 10, N. 3, March 1972. pp. 267 \u2013 284.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ces\/eulearning\/introduction\/what-is-the-eu\/extension-of-blind-men-elephants-and-international-integration-2\/\">Next &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Donald Puchala &#8220;Several blind men approached an elephant and each touched the animal in an effort to discover what the beast looked like. Each blind man, however, touched a different part of the large animal, and each concluded that the elephant had the appearance of the part he had touched. 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