Politics in the European Union

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Author: Owen Parker; Simon Bulmer; Charlotte Burns
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Höfundar: Owen Parker; Simon Bulmer; Charlotte Burns (Útgáfa: 6)

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Þetta er áhugaverð og greinargóð heildarleiðsögn um fortíð, nútíð og framtíð Evrópusambandsins. Sérfræðingar fjalla ítarlega um kenningar og sögu að baki ESB og kanna síðan stofnanir þess og stefnumál. Þannig öðlast lesendur dýrmætan skilning á þessu flókna stjórnmálasambandi.

Aðgengileg en ítarleg umfjöllun um sögu, kenningar, stofnanir og stefnumál Evrópusambandsins, ætluð grunn- og framhaldsnemum sem leggja stund á nám um ESB í fyrsta sinn.
Höfundar nota skýrt og einfalt mál til að auðvelda nemendum að öðlast góðan skilning á flókinni starfsemi ESB.
Fjórir kaflar eru helgaðir kenningum. Í hverjum þeirra eru fjölbreytt dæmi um starfsemi ESB sem hjálpa lesendum að beita fræðilegum sjónarhornum á raunveruleg viðfangsefni stjórnmála.
Nýr hluti, fimmti hluti: Áskoranir og framtíðarhorfur, inniheldur nýjan kafla, 25. kafla, þar sem staða ESB í samtímanum er skoðuð í kjölfar innrásar Rússlands í Úkraínu og endurkjörs Donald Trump sem forseta Bandaríkjanna.
Köflunum um sögu hefur verið endurraðað og 9. kafli, um nýlegar krísur, uppfærður með umfjöllun um þróun á borð við COVID-19-faraldurinn og innrás Rússlands í Úkraínu.
Í nýjum sögukafla, 10. kafla, er fjallað um helstu sögulegu drifkrafta Evrópusamrunans.
Kenningahlutinn hefur verið endurnýjaður, einkum með nýju efni í 4. kafla um sjónarhorn eftirlendufræða.
Kaflarnir um stofnanir hafa verið uppfærðir með hliðsjón af Evrópuþinginu sem kosið var árið 2024 og endurskipun Ursula von der Leyen sem forseta framkvæmdastjórnar Evrópusambandsins.

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Útgefandi: Oxford University Press Academic UK

ISBN: 9780198894032

Print ISBN: 9780198894018

Format: ePub

Útgáfa: 6

Höfundar: Owen Parker; Simon Bulmer; Charlotte Burns

Tungumál: English

Útgefið: 2026-02-17

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Cover Page
Title page
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Map of Europe
About the Authors
About the Book
New to this Edition
Acknowledgements
Copyright disclaimer
Part One Theory
Chapter 1 Theories of European Integration
1.1 European Integration and the First Attempts to Theorize It
1.2 The Intellectual Background
1.2.1 Mitrany and Functionalism
1.2.2 Spinelli and Federalism
1.2.3 Monnet and Functional-Federalism
1.3 Theories of European Integration
1.3.1 Neofunctionalism
1.3.2 Neofunctionalism Revised
1.3.3 Intergovernmentalism
1.3.4 Liberal Intergovernmentalism
1.3.5 New Intergovernmentalism
1.3.6 Postfunctionalism
1.4 Conclusion
Key Points
European Integration and the First Attempts to Theorize It
The Intellectual Background
Theories of European Integration
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 2 Theories of EU Governance
2.1 A Shift of Focus
2.2 New Institutionalism
2.2.1 Rational Choice Institutionalism
2.2.2 Historical Institutionalism
2.2.3 Sociological Institutionalism
2.2.4 New Institutionalism Assessed
2.3 Governance
2.3.1 Multi-Level Governance
2.3.2 Regulatory Governance
2.3.3 New Methods of Governance
2.3.4 Governance Assessed
2.4 Policy Networks
2.4.1 Policy Networks and the Study of the EU
2.4.2 Epistemic Communities
2.4.3 Policy Networks Assessed
2.5 EU Governance Approaches
2.5.1 Supranational Governance
2.5.2 New Intergovernmentalism
2.5.3 Differentiated Integration
2.5.4 EU Governance Approaches Assessed
2.6 Conclusion
Key Points
A Shift of Focus
New Institutionalism
Governance
Policy Networks
EU Governance Approaches
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 3 Theorizing Consequences
3.1 Europeanization
3.1.1 Meanings of ‘Europeanization’
3.1.2 The Development of the Field
3.1.3 Uploading, Downloading, and Crossloading
3.1.4 Europeanization and the New Institutionalisms
3.1.5 Europeanization Applied
3.1.6 Europeanization Assessed
3.2 Analysing Bottom-Up Pressures on the EU
3.2.1 Domestic Politics and Politicization
3.2.2 Euroscepticism
3.2.3 Disintegration
3.3 Democracy and Legitimacy
3.3.1 The Democratic Deficit
3.3.2 Democracy and Legitimacy in the EU Assessed
3.4 Conclusion
Key Points
Europeanization
Analysing Bottom-Up Pressures on the EU
Democracy and Legitimacy
Questions
Further Reading
Europeanization
Analysing Bottom-Up Pressures on the EU
Democracy and Legitimacy
List of Key Terms
Chapter 4 Critical Perspectives
4.1 Critical of What?
4.2 Social Constructivism
4.2.1 Constructivist Work on the EU
4.2.2 Constructivism Assessed
4.3 Critical Political Economy
4.3.1 Critical Political Economy Work on the EU
4.3.2 Critical Political Economy Assessed
4.4 Critical Social Theory
4.4.1 Cosmopolitanism
4.4.2 Post-colonial Perspectives
4.4.3 Critical Social Theory Assessed
4.5 Critical Feminism
4.5.1 Feminist Work on the EU
4.5.2 Critical Feminism Assessed
4.6 Post-Structuralism
4.6.1 Post-Structuralist Work on the EU
4.6.2 Post-Structuralism Assessed
4.7 Conclusion
Key Points
Critical of What?
Social Constructivism
Critical Political Economy
Critical Social Theory
Critical Feminism
Post-Structuralism
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Part Two History
Chapter 5 Initiating European Integration: 1945–51
5.1 Pre-history
5.2 Underlying International Postwar Circumstances
5.2.1 The German Problem
5.2.2 The Cold War
5.2.3 International and European Political Systems
5.2.4 Overcoming Nationalism
5.2.5 Colonial Perspectives
5.3 The Hague Congress and the Council of Europe
5.4 The Schuman Plan for Coal and Steel
5.5 From the Schuman Plan to the Treaty of Paris
5.6 Domestic Politics and Early-Years Integration
5.7 Conclusion
Key Points
Pre-history
Underlying international postwar circumstances
The German problem
The Cold War
International and European political systems
Overcoming nationalism
Colonial perspectives
The Hague Congress and the Council of Europe
The Schuman Plan for Coal and Steel
From the Schuman Plan to the Treaty of Paris
Domestic politics and early-years integration
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 6 Developing the European Communities: 1952–68
6.1 The European Defence Community
6.2 The European Coal and Steel Community
6.3 From Messina to the Rome Treaties
6.4 Euratom
6.5 European Economic Community
6.6 De Gaulle Collides with European Integration
6.6.1 The Fouchet Plan for ‘Political Union’
6.6.2 Blocking British Accession
6.6.3 The 1965 Crisis and Luxembourg Compromise
6.6.4 In the Shadow of the Crisis
6.7 Conclusion
Key Points
The Pleven Plan
The European Coal and Steel Community
From Messina to the Rome Treaties
Euratom
European Economic Community
De Gaulle collides with European integration
The Fouchet Plan for ‘Political Union’
Blocking British Accession
The 1965 Crisis and Luxembourg Compromise
In the Shadow of the Crisis
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 7 The Road to the European Union: 1969–91
7.1 The Hague Summit
7.2 The Paris Summit and Institutional Change
7.3 The European Monetary System
7.4 The Southern Enlargements
7.5 The British Budget Rebate
7.6 Reviving the EC
7.7 Fontainebleau European Council
7.8 The Milan European Council ‘Package Deal’
7.9 Explaining the Re-energized EC
7.10 Towards Maastricht
7.11 The Maastricht Treaty and the European Union
7.12 Conclusion
Key Points
The Hague Summit
The Paris Summit and institutional change
The European Monetary System
The Southern Enlargements
The British Budget Rebate
Reviving the EC
Fontainebleau European Council
The Milan European Council ‘Package Deal’ 1985
Explaining the re-energized EC
Towards Maastricht
The Treaty on European Union
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 8 From Maastricht to the Lisbon Treaty: 1992–2009
8.1 Ratifying Maastricht
8.2 EU Politics after Maastricht
8.3 The 1996 IGC
8.4 The Treaty of Amsterdam
8.5 Monetary Union
8.6 Eastern Enlargement I
8.7 The Nice Treaty
8.8 The Lisbon Strategy
8.9 European Security and Defence Policy
8.10 The Constitutional Treaty
8.11 Eastern Enlargement II
8.12 The Lisbon Treaty
8.13 Conclusion
Key Points
Ratifying Maastricht
EU Politics after Maastricht
The 1996 IGC
The Treaty of Amsterdam
Monetary Union
Eastern Enlargement I
The Nice Treaty
The Lisbon Strategy
European Security and Defence Policy
The Constitutional Treaty
Eastern Enlargement II
The Lisbon Treaty
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 9 The EU ‘Polycrisis’: 2010–24
9.1 The Eurozone Crisis
9.2 The Refugee Crisis
9.3 Brexit
9.4 The Covid-19 Crisis
9.5 The Ukraine Crisis
9.6 The Populist Challenge
9.6.1 Democratic Backsliding in Hungary and Poland
9.7 Conclusion
Key Points
The Unfolding Eurozone Crisis
The Refugee Crisis
Brexit
The Covid-19 Crisis
The Ukraine Crisis
The Populist Challenge
Further Reading
Chapter 10 History, Dynamics, and Characteristics
10.1 Analysing Drivers of Integration
10.1.1 International Drivers
10.1.2 Internal Integration Dynamics
10.1.3 Domestic Drivers
10.1.4 The Monnet Method’s Inevitable Success?
10.2 Deepening, Widening, and Differentiation
10.2.1 Deepening
10.2.2 Widening
10.2.3 Differentiation
10.3 Short-term History: the Electoral Cycle
10.4 Conclusion
Key Points
Analysing Drivers of European Integration
Deepening, Widening and Differentiation
Short-Term History
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Part Three Institutions
Chapter 11 The Institutional Architecture
11.1 The Treaties
11.2 The Decision Making Institutions (the Union Method)
11.2.1 The European Council
11.2.2 The Commission
11.2.3 The Council of the EU (the Council)
11.2.4 The European Parliament (EP)
11.2.5 The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
11.2.6 The Committee of the Regions (CoR)
11.3 Decision Making Procedures
11.3.1 The Budgetary Procedure
11.3.2 Legislative Procedures
The Ordinary Legislative Procedure (Co-decision)
The Consultation Procedure
Consent
11.4 Implementation
11.4.1 National Authorities and Implementation
11.4.2 The Commission and Implementation
11.4.3 The Court of Justice of The European Union (CJEU)
11.4.4 The Court of Auditors
11.5 The Decision Making Institutions (CFSP)
11.6 Balancing authority within the Treaty
11.6.1 Catalogue of Competencies
11.6.2 Differentiated Integration
11.6.3 Emergency Brakes
11.6.4 Passerelle Clauses
11.6.5 Appetite for Future Treaty Reform
11.7 Conclusion
Key Points
The Treaties
The Decision-Making Institutions (the Union Method)
Decision-Making Procedures
Implementation
The Decision-Making Institutions (CFSP)
The Post-Lisbon Architecture of the EU
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 12 The European Commission
12.1 Functions
12.2 Composition and Appointment
12.3 The Commission in the Policy-Making Process
12.3.1 Core Debate: Engine or Agent?
12.4 A Political Commission?
12.5 The Commission and Managing Implementation
12.5.1 The Commission as Implementer
12.6 Financial Management
12.7 Conclusion
Key Points
Functions
Composition and Appointment
The Commission in the Policy-Making Process
The Commission and Managing Implementation
Financial Management
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 13 The European Council and the Council of the European Union (EU)
13.1 Definitions and Distinctions
13.2 Intergovernmental and Supranational Interpretations
13.3 The European Council
13.3.1 Composition and Organization
13.3.2 Functions and Dysfunctions
13.3.3 Intergovernmentalism and Informality in the European Council
13.4 The Council of the EU
13.4.1 A Purely Intergovernmental Institution?
13.4.2 COREPER and other Preparatory Bodies
COREPER
High-Level Preparatory Bodies
The Working Parties
13.5 The Council Presidency
13.6 Conclusion
Key Points
Definitions
The Council Presidency
Intergovernmental and Supranational Interpretations
Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 14 The European Parliament
14.1 Composition and Functions
14.2 The Struggle for Power
14.2.1 Direct Elections
14.2.2 Budgetary Powers
14.2.3 Influence in the Legislative Process
14.2.4 The EP and the Commission
14.3 Debates and Research
14.3.1 Political Behaviour and EP Elections
14.3.2 Internal Politics and Organization of the EP
Committee Work in the EP
The Party Groups
The Independence of MEPs
14.3.3 The EP and Inter-Institutional Bargaining
14.4 Conclusion
Key Points
Composition and Functions
The Struggle for Power
Debates and Research
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 15 The Court of Justice of the European Union
15.1 Context
15.2 Structure and Functions
15.2.1 Structure
15.2.2 Functions
15.3 CJEU Rulings on the Nature of EU Law
15.3.1 Direct Effect: Van Gend en Loos (1963) Case 26/62
15.3.2 The Primacy of EU Law: Costa v. ENEL (1964) Case 6/64
15.3.3 State Liability: Francovich v. Italy (1991) Cases C-6 and 9/90
15.4 CJEU Rulings and Policy Impact
15.5 The Rise of Subsidiarity, the CJEU, and EU Law
15.6 Court Curbing? The CJEU and the Member States
15.6.1 The Intergovernmental Case
15.6.2 The Neofunctionalist Case
15.7 Conclusion
Key Points
Context
Structure and Functions
CJEU Rulings on the Nature of EU Law
CJEU Rulings and Policy Impact
Court Curbing? The CJEU and the Member States
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 16 Organized Interests
16.1 The Growth of Interest Group Activity at the EU Level
16.2 Types of Interest Group
16.3 Forms of Interest Representation
16.4 Resources
16.5 Organized Interests and the Institutional Actors
16.5.1 The Commission
16.5.2 The Council of the EU
16.5.3 The European Parliament
16.6 Regulating Lobbying
16.7 Conclusion
Key Points
The Growth of Interest Group Activity at the EU Level
Types of Interest Group
Forms of Interest Representation
Resources
Organized Interests and the Institutional Actors
Regulating Lobbying
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Part Four Policies
Chapter 17 Policy Making and Policies in the European Union
17.1 The European Union’s Policy Agenda
17.2 The European Union’s Policy Cycle
17.2.1 Agenda Setting
17.2.2 Policy Formulation
17.2.3 Decision Making
17.2.4 Implementation
17.2.5 Review and Feedback
17.2.6 Overview
17.3 Major Policy Areas
17.3.1 Competition
17.3.2 Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion
17.3.3 Cohesion Policy
17.3.4 Research and Innovation
17.3.5 Energy
17.3.6 Transport
17.4 Conclusion
Key Points
The European Union’s Policy Agenda
The European Union’s Policy Cycle
Major Policy Areas
Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 18 The Single Market
18.1 History
18.2 Project 1992: Freeing the Internal Market
18.3 Beyond 1992
18.3.1 Problem Areas
18.3.2 The Services Directive
18.3.3 Transposition, Implementation, and Enforcement
18.4 The Single Market in the 2010s and Beyond
18.4.1 The Single Market After the Eurozone Crisis
18.4.2 The Single Market After Covid-19
18.5 Explaining the Single Market
18.5.1 The Original Decision
18.5.2 The Acceleration Agreement
18.5.3 The 1992 Programme
18.5.4 The Geoeconomic turn
18.6 Evaluating the Single Market
18.7 Conclusion
Key Points
History
Project 1992: Freeing the Internal Market
Beyond 1992
The Single Market beyond the 2010s
Explaining the Single Market
Evaluating the Single Market
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 19 Economic and Monetary Union
19.1 History
19.1.1 Early Developments
19.1.2 Monetary Union in the 1990s
19.1.3 Putting Maastricht into Operation (1992–2002)
19.2 The Single Currency in Operation
19.2.1 The Euro Group
19.2.2 Problems of Monetary Union
19.2.3 Redefining the Stability and Growth Pact
19.2.4 Euro Notes and Coins
19.3 The Eurozone Crisis and Responses
19.3.1 Crisis Management
19.3.2 Long-Term Reforms
19.4 Responding to Covid-19: Towards a Fiscal Union?
19.5 Explaining and Critiquing EMU
19.5.1 Spillover
19.5.2 Intergovernmental Explanations
19.5.3 Critical Voices
19.6 Conclusion
Key Points
History
The Single Currency in Operation
The Eurozone Crisis and Responses
Responding to Covid-19: Towards a Fiscal Union?
Explaining and Critiquing EMU
Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 20 Agriculture
20.1 History
20.2 Agricultural Reform
20.2.1 Internal Pressures
The Cost of the CAP
Enlargement
Environmental Pressures
Parliamentarization
20.2.2 External Pressures
20.3 The Effect of Reform
20.4 Explaining and Critiquing the CAP
20.5 Conclusion
Key Points
History
The Effect of Reform
Explaining and Critiquing the CAP
Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 21 Environment and Climate
21.1 History
21.1.1 The European Environment
21.1.2 Public Awareness
21.1.3 International Environmental Policy
21.1.4 Economic Rationale
21.1.5 Enlargement
21.1.6 Policy Entrepreneurs
21.2 Current Policy Context
21.2.1 Implementation Deficit
21.3 The EU as an International Actor: Green Pioneer or Green Colonialist?
21.4 Explaining EU Environmental Policy
21.5 Critiquing EU Environmental Policy
21.6 Conclusion
Key Points
History
Current Policy Context
Explaining and Critiquing EU Environmental Policy
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 22 Freedom, Security, and Justice
22.1 Context
22.2 History
22.2.1 Early Cooperation: Before the Treaty on European Union
22.2.2 Policy Dynamics and JHA Structures under the Treaty on European Union
22.2.3 The Reforms of the Amsterdam Treaty
22.2.4 The Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice (AFSJ): From Amsterdam to Nice
22.3 The Lisbon Treaty
22.4 The Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice
22.4.1 AFSJ Policy Measures
22.4.2 AFSJ Institutions and Politics
22.4.3 Schengen Information System
22.4.4 Europol, Eurojust, and Frontex
22.5 The Refugee Crisis and Beyond
22.6 Explaining the AFSJ
22.7 Critiquing the AFSJ
22.8 Conclusion
Key Points
History
The Lisbon Treaty
The Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice
The Refugee Crisis and Beyond
Explaining the AFSJ
Critiquing the AFSJ
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
Chapter 23 Trade and Development Aid
23.1 History
23.1.1 The International Context for EU Policy
23.1.2 Development Policy
23.1.3 Relations with Near Neighbours
23.2 External Trade Policy in the 21st Century
23.2.1 The Common Commercial Policy
23.2.2 From Multilateralism to Bilateralism and ‘Deep Trade’
23.2.3 Open Strategic Autonomy
23.3 Development and Trade
23.3.1 Relations with African, Caribbean, and Pacific States
23.3.2 The European Neighbourhood Policy
23.4 Explaining and Critiquing Trade and Development Aid Policies
23.4.1 Explaining External Trade Policy
23.4.2 Critiquing Trade and Development Aid Policies
23.5 Conclusion
Key Points
History
External Trade Policy in the 21st Century
Development and Trade
Explaining and Critiquing Trade and Development Aid Policies
Questions
Further Reading
Chapter 24 Common Foreign and Security Policy
24.1 History
24.1.1 European Political Cooperation (EPC)
24.2 The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)
24.3 The CFSP and CSDP in Action
24.3.1 Pre-Lisbon Treaty
24.3.2 Post-Lisbon Treaty
24.4 Explaining CFSP and CSDP
24.4.1 The Capability–Expectations Gap
24.5 EU Power in World Politics
24.6 Conclusion
Key Points
History
The Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)
CFSP and CSDP in Action
Explaining CFSP and CSDP
EU Power in World Politics
Questions
Further Reading
Part Five Challenges and Prospects
Chapter 25 The State of the EU: Fit for the Future?
25.1 Patterns of the Past and Present
25.1.1 The Drivers of European Integration
25.2 Deepening, Widening, and Differentiation
25.2.1 Deepening
25.2.2 Widening
25.2.3 Differentiation
25.3 The Challenges of the Mid-2020s
25.3.1 Geopolitics and the Ukraine War
25.3.2 Other Global Political Challenges
25.3.3 International Economic Challenges
25.3.4 President Trump’s Second Term
25.4 Scenarios for the EU
25.4.1 A Weakening of Integration?
25.4.2 Broad Continuity?
25.4.3 Strengthening Integration?
25.5 Conclusion
Key Points
Patterns of the Past and Present
Deepening, Widening, and Differentiation
The Challenges of the mid-2020s
Scenarios for the EU
Questions
Further Reading
List of Key Terms
References
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Map of Europe
Chapter 3 Theorizing Consequences
Chapter 9 The EU ‘Polycrisis’: 2010–24
Chapter 11 The Institutional Architecture
Chapter 17 Policy Making and Policies in the European Union
Chapter 20 Agriculture
Chapter 22 Freedom, Security, and Justice
Chapter 25 The State of the EU: Fit for the Future?