In 2007, James Mann published a book called The China Fantasy, about American leaders downplaying Chinese human rights violations in 
the interest of integrating China into the global economy. The aim of 
“integration” was to involve China in world affairs and force it to play by certain rules, which would hopefully be habit-forming and result in 
more domestic freedom. It didn’t exactly happen that way, and Mann 
offered an explanation why: reverse integration. As he wrote:
The fundamental problem with this strategy of integration is that it 
raises the obvious question “Who’s integrating whom?” Is the United 
States now integrating China into a new international economic order 
based upon free market principles? Or, on the other hand, is China now 
integrating the United States into a new international political order 
where democracy is no longer favored and where a government’s continuing eradication of all organized political opposition is accepted or 
ignored?
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>Needless to say, the United States itself doesn’t have to become more 
like China for reverse integration to take place; it merely needs to 
accept that China’s existing values are welcome in the international 
community. It’s worth keeping this concept of reverse integration in 
mind when examining the thorny question of Britain’s membership in the 
European Union. Not only does there seem to be a case of reverse 
integration taking place, but in contrast with the U.S./China analogy 
Britain is actually at risk of becoming more like the rest of the EU 
through its participation–even if it holds on to its sovereign currency.  

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/20/britain-the-eu-and-reverse-integration/