- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- The Editors
- List of Contributors
- 1 Risks, Reform, Resistance, and Revival
- 2 The EU After the 1990s: Explaining Continuity and Change
- 3 The European Union After Amsterdam: Towards a Theoretical Approach to (Differentiated) Integration
- 4 The Paradox of the ‘European Polity’
- 5 Monetary Integration in Europe: Ideas and Evolution
- 6 The Battle Between ECOFIN‐11 and the European Central Bank: A Strategic Interaction Perspective
- 7 European Monetary Union and the New Political Economy of Adjustment
- 8 EU Enlargement: A Neglected Subject
- 9 Eastern Enlargement: Risk, Rationality, and Role‐Compliance
- 10 Enlargement: A Complex Juggling Act
- 11 The European Commission: Diminishing Returns to Entrepreneurship
- 12 Democracy, Legitimacy, and the European Parliament
- 13 Do You Hear What I Hear? Translation, Expansion, and Crisis in the European Court of Justice
- 14 Blairism in Brussels: The ‘Third Way’ In Europe Since Amsterdam
- 15 On Being European: The Character and Consequences of European Identity
- 16 EU Trade Policy: The Exclusive Versus Shared' Competence Debate
- 17 Flexibility or Renationalization: Effects of Enlargement on EC Environmental Policy
- 18 How Defense ‘Spilled Over’ Into the CFSP: Western European Union (WEU) and the European Security and Defense Identity (ESDI)
- 19 Resisting Reform or Risking Revival? Renegotiating the Lomé Convention
- Bibliography
- Index
The Paradox of the ‘European Polity’
The Paradox of the ‘European Polity’
- Chapter:
- (p.64) 4 The Paradox of the ‘European Polity’
- Source:
- The State of the European Union
- Author(s):
Jo Shaw
Antje Wiener
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines the features of European integration, which suggest that the EU is both ‘near-state’ and antiethical to stateness. It highlights the paradox of the European policy, consisting of a parallel development of two dimensions: one institutional and the other theoretical. The debate over constitutionalism and constitutional change as an approach to the paradox of stateness is discussed. An empirical example of a process in which social norms become materialized into legal norms is presented.
Keywords: European Union, integration, paradox, stateness, norms, constitutionalism, constitutional change
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- The Editors
- List of Contributors
- 1 Risks, Reform, Resistance, and Revival
- 2 The EU After the 1990s: Explaining Continuity and Change
- 3 The European Union After Amsterdam: Towards a Theoretical Approach to (Differentiated) Integration
- 4 The Paradox of the ‘European Polity’
- 5 Monetary Integration in Europe: Ideas and Evolution
- 6 The Battle Between ECOFIN‐11 and the European Central Bank: A Strategic Interaction Perspective
- 7 European Monetary Union and the New Political Economy of Adjustment
- 8 EU Enlargement: A Neglected Subject
- 9 Eastern Enlargement: Risk, Rationality, and Role‐Compliance
- 10 Enlargement: A Complex Juggling Act
- 11 The European Commission: Diminishing Returns to Entrepreneurship
- 12 Democracy, Legitimacy, and the European Parliament
- 13 Do You Hear What I Hear? Translation, Expansion, and Crisis in the European Court of Justice
- 14 Blairism in Brussels: The ‘Third Way’ In Europe Since Amsterdam
- 15 On Being European: The Character and Consequences of European Identity
- 16 EU Trade Policy: The Exclusive Versus Shared' Competence Debate
- 17 Flexibility or Renationalization: Effects of Enlargement on EC Environmental Policy
- 18 How Defense ‘Spilled Over’ Into the CFSP: Western European Union (WEU) and the European Security and Defense Identity (ESDI)
- 19 Resisting Reform or Risking Revival? Renegotiating the Lomé Convention
- Bibliography
- Index
