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The State of the European Union: Risks, Reform, Resistance, and Revival

Maria Green Cowles and Michael Smith

Abstract

This book represents the relaunching of the State of the European Union series sponsored by the European Community Studies Association. It features 19 papers on the ‘four Rs’ that embody the EU experience: risk, reform, resistance and revival. Risk is defined in terms of the stakes attached to the European project. Reform is the attempt to shape and reshape the European project in its pursuit of efficiency, effectiveness, and avoidance of the risk of non-reform. Resistance refers to the forces that oppose reform. Revival refers to the breakthroughs precipitated by shifts in the balance between ... More

Keywords: European Union, risk, reform, resistance, revival

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2000 Print ISBN-13: 9780198297574
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 DOI:10.1093/0198297572.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Maria Green Cowles, editor
American University
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Michael Smith, editor
Loughborough University
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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Preface

List of Figures

List of Tables

The Editors

List of Contributors

I Introduction

1 Risks, Reform, Resistance, and Revival

Maria Green Cowles and Michael Smith

II Conceptualizing the European Union

2 The EU After the 1990s: Explaining Continuity and Change

John Peterson and Elizabeth Bomberg

3 The European Union After Amsterdam: Towards a Theoretical Approach to (Differentiated) Integration

Sieglinde Gstöhl

4 The Paradox of the ‘European Polity’

Jo Shaw and Antje Wiener

III Monetary Union: Ideas, Interests, and Impact

5 Monetary Integration in Europe: Ideas and Evolution

Amy Verdun

6 The Battle Between ECOFIN‐11 and the European Central Bank: A Strategic Interaction Perspective

Miriam L. Campanella

7 European Monetary Union and the New Political Economy of Adjustment

Erik Jones

IV Enlargement: Understanding Past, Present, and Future

8 EU Enlargement: A Neglected Subject

Helen Wallace

9 Eastern Enlargement: Risk, Rationality, and Role‐Compliance

Ulrich Sedelmeier

10 Enlargement: A Complex Juggling Act

Lykke Friis and Anna Murphy

V Institutions and Identity: Capabilities, Legitimacy, and Perception

11 The European Commission: Diminishing Returns to Entrepreneurship

Mitchell P. Smith

12 Democracy, Legitimacy, and the European Parliament

Roger Scully

13 Do You Hear What I Hear? Translation, Expansion, and Crisis in the European Court of Justice

Paul Fabian Mullen

14 Blairism in Brussels: The ‘Third Way’ In Europe Since Amsterdam

Mark A. Pollack

15 On Being European: The Character and Consequences of European Identity

David Michael Green

VI Policy‐Making: Challenges in a Changing European Union

16 EU Trade Policy: The Exclusive Versus Shared' Competence Debate

Sophie Meunier and Kalypso Nicolaïdis

17 Flexibility or Renationalization: Effects of Enlargement on EC Environmental Policy

Ingmar Von Homeyer, Alexander Carius, Stefani Bär

18 How Defense ‘Spilled Over’ Into the CFSP: Western European Union (WEU) and the European Security and Defense Identity (ESDI)

J. Bryan Collester

19 Resisting Reform or Risking Revival? Renegotiating the Lomé Convention

Martin Holland

End Matter

Bibliography

Index