The European Union's Non-Members

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The European Union's Non-Members

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The EU is a supranational organization, whose reach and influence extends well beyond its member states, especially to the many states that have signed various forms of association agreement with it. This book asks whether qualifying states who have eschewed EU membership experience negative effects on their legal and political self-governing abilities, or whether they manage their independence with few such effects.

It explores the idea that the closer the affiliation a non-member state has with the EU, the more susceptible to hegemony the relationship appears to be. In addition, the book provides an overview of the total range of agreements the EU has with non-member states. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of in EU/European studies, Scandinavian studies, European and comparative politics, international relations, and democratization studies.

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Útgefandi
Taylor & Francis
ISBN
9781317613930
Print ISBN
9781138807518
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Author
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2015-06-03
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
2
Afritunar takmörkun
2

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  • Cover Page
  • Half Title Page
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction Asymmetry and the problem of dominance
  • A danger of hegemonic dominance
  • Democratic constitutionalism
  • The European challenge
  • Forms of association
  • Multilateralism: The EEA Agreement
  • Sectorial bilateralism: Switzerland
  • The contents of the book
  • Notes
  • References
  • I Forms of association without membership
  • 2 The European Union's Different Neighbourhood Models
  • Introduction: The neighbours' stake in the internal market
  • Neighbourhood models of deep economic integration
  • The EEA: Broad, multilateral, dynamic two-pillar model
  • EU–Switzerland: Broad, bilateral, static, sectoral model
  • EU–Turkey: Narrow, bilateral, partly dynamic customs union model
  • The European small-sized countries: Narrow, bilateral, static absorption model
  • The ENP: Narrow, bilateral, static hub-and-spoke model
  • The Energy Community Treaty: Narrow, partly dynamic, sectoral multilateralism
  • Challenges faced by the neighbourhood models
  • Conclusion: No stake in decision-making?
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3 The Swiss Way The nature of Switzerland's relationship with the EU
  • The origins of Swiss–EU bilateralism
  • The legal scope of Swiss–EU bilateralism
  • The bilateral agreements
  • The legal nature of obligations
  • The organisational scope of Swiss–EU bilateralism
  • Political design versus bottom-up functionalism
  • The end of the Swiss Sonderweg?
  • Renovation of the bilateral way: Progress and setbacks
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 4 Switzerland Bilateralism's polarising consequences in a very particular/ist democracy
  • Swiss democracy
  • Switzerland's form of European Integration
  • Swiss sovereignty and the selective stance against domination
  • Switzerland's selective stance towards external sources of domination
  • The Swiss form of political accountability between republicanism and regional integration
  • Holding Swiss rulers accountable: From trustees to traitors?
  • Deliberative accountability within a popular democracy: From inclusiveness and pragmatism back to exclusiveness and populism?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • II Welcomed, inside, but still unwilling Two EEA Countries Assessed
  • 5 Despoiling Norwegian Democracy1
  • Democracy and congruence
  • Citizens' self-rule
  • Law and democracy
  • State or popular sovereignty?
  • Self-inflicted harm to democratic procedure
  • Greater system effectiveness
  • Homogeneity and dynamics
  • An indigent contract
  • Hegemony by default
  • Rule without justification
  • Cosmopolitanisation of nation states
  • Juridical supranationalism
  • The right to co-determination
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 6 The EEA and the Case Law of the CJEU Incorporation without participation?
  • The origins of the complex judicial architecture of the EEA
  • The core of the problem: Independence vs homogeneity
  • The EFTA Court's approach
  • The approach of the national courts of the EFTA states
  • Influencing the CJEU's development of the common rules for the internal market?
  • What if Switzerland and the UK were to join to the EFTA pillar of the EEA?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 7 Iceland A reluctant European
  • Background
  • Constitutional implications
  • Side-lining the parliament
  • Passive integration
  • Does size matter?
  • Administrative capacity: Opportunities and challenges
  • Challenging political patronage
  • The legacy of the US hegemony
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 8 Norway's Constitutional Acrobatics under the EEA Agreement
  • The EEA Agreement's promise of sovereignty
  • Law in books: What does the constitution say?
  • Formal and substantive transfers of sovereignty
  • The necessity of a specific procedure for formal transfers of sovereignty
  • Law in action: Current Norwegian practice for transfers of sovereignty
  • Legal basis for the current practice
  • Problems with the current practice
  • Why all the constitutional acrobatics under the EEA Agreement?
  • Notes
  • References
  • 9 Representation under Hegemony? On Norway's relationship to the EU
  • Norway's representation and presence in the EU
  • Virtual representation
  • Surrogate representation
  • Contending conceptions of sovereignty and constitutional implications
  • Internal workings of Norwegian representative democracy
  • Executive dominance
  • Inadequate parliamentary oversight and control
  • Stymied elections and ‘gagged' parties?
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 10 National Administrative Sovereignty Under pressure
  • Theoretical discussion of multilevel administration
  • Empirical observations
  • 1 Capacity building in the EU's executive
  • Growth in the European Commission
  • The growth of EU agencies
  • 2 National agencies with a certain amount of independence from ministries
  • 3 National administrative sovereignty under pressure
  • Administrative sovereignty in administrative policy
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
  • 11 Reinforcing Executive Dominance Norway and the EU's foreign and security policy
  • Autonomy and accountability in Norwegian foreign and security policy
  • Norway and EU foreign and security policy
  • Insignificant legal agreements of particular political importance?
  • Adverse effects on state sovereignty?
  • Prioritising action capacity
  • In line with tradition?
  • A continuation of alliance policy?
  • Policy based on consensus?
  • A legitimate need to ensure action capacity?
  • Paradoxes in foreign policy
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • III Sovereignty under hegemony
  • 12 The United Kingdom, a Once and Future(?) Non-Member State
  • Four futures?
  • Completely in
  • In but not completely in
  • Out but not completely out
  • Completely out
  • 1950–1952: With but not of
  • Sovereignty
  • International actor
  • Political economy and domestic politics
  • When in, not completely in
  • Sovereignty
  • International power
  • Political economy
  • Domestic politics
  • Ways of being a non-member (again)
  • Sovereignty
  • International power
  • Political economy
  • Domestic politics
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • 13 Hegemony by Association
  • Differentiated integration and democratic self-rule
  • Many forms of association amidst strong gravitational pulls
  • The sovereign democrats
  • Brexit and a new category of ex-member state
  • Independency under hegemony
  • Note
  • Index