Explaining the EU's Policy Portfolio: Applying a Federal Integration Approach to EU Cohesion Policy. Bruges Political Research Paper No. 20, December 2011 [PDF]
This paper engages with the debate about why the nature of the EU's policy portfolio is as it is. It does so by taking cohesion policy and asking the question, why has it come to occupy so important a position in the EU‟s policy portfolio?
Buonanno, Laurie, Nugent, Neill
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Claims of a ‘new intergovernmentalism’ in European integration have been overstated [PDF]
Several authors have argued that European integration is becoming characterised by a form of ‘new intergovernmentalism’, with increasing numbers of decisions made through intergovernmental forms of decision-making such as those in the European Council ...
Schimmelfennig, Frank
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This article questions and analyses the supranational aspirations of the European Union (EU) over its intergovernmental policies. It addresses first nationalism followed by neo-functionalism, supranationalism, and intergovernmentalism; the dominant ...
Dilara Sülün
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CSDP and the open method of coordination: Developing the EU's comprehensive approach to security [PDF]
How can we best describe the operation of the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), and how can we improve policy-making in CSDP? The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is predicated on the conviction that there are clear limits to the extent that ...
Sweeney Simon, Winn Neil
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Rethinking EU governance: from ‘old’ to ‘new’ approaches to who steers integration* [PDF]
*I wish to thank the guest editors of this Special Issue, Mark Pollack and Mareike Kleine, for their impressive stewardship of the entire project along with their extremely perceptive and careful editorial suggestions for my own article.
Schmidt, Vivien A.
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EU policy towards Central and Eastern Europe: Development of pre-accession strategies
The author continues the analysis started in the previous issue. The same analytical framework is used to discuss European Union's (EU's) policy towards the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) and its dynamics after the Copenhagen summit.
Ramūnas Vilpišauskas
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The need for a more ambitious structure of governance to face new challenges within the EU
Neo-functionalism, intergovernmentalism and a political economy of national self-interest have characterised a process of European integration that was strongly oriented towards the full realisation of the three freedoms.
Javier Bilbao-Ubillos
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The European Union: A Comparative Perspective [PDF]
This chapter, to be included in the Oxford Principles of EU Law volume, compares the federalisms of Europe and the United States. It argues that Europe can be sensibly viewed from both federal and intergovernmental perspectives, and that particular ...
Young, Ernest A.
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Explaining Crises and Comparing Regionalisms [PDF]
This paper deals with two litmus tests for theories of European integration. The first part asks, how and to what extent various approaches can explain the contemporary crises of European integration.
Börzel, Tanja A., Risse, Thomas
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Bilateral dynamics and multilateral perspectives in Euro-Mediterranean relations (1995-2010) [PDF]
The author points out the increasing complexity of Euro-Mediterranean relations and the ever more differentiated relationships. He underlines the return to a more intergovernmentalist approach promoted by the UfM and the creation of an “avant-garde ...
Lannon, Erwoan
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