Leadership in the big bangs of European integration / edited by Derek Beach and Colette Mazzucelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beach, Derek.

Mazzucelli, Colette.

Series:

Palgrave studies in European Union politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

Political leadership--European Union countries.

Political leadership.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

European Union constitutional negotiations are very complex, unpredictable and messy affairs with high bargaining (transaction) costs. Leadership is often necessary in order for the parties to find and agree upon a mutually acceptable outcome. Various types of leadership are demanded in different types of circumstances, and who provides leadership affects the shape of the final outcome. The use of a common framework throughout allows the volume to provide some tentative answers to the following empirical questions: which actors have driven the European integration process in the last two decades, and more importantly, what factors allowed specific actors to provide leadership in a given context? These conclusions provide a major step forward in the literature on the history-making bargains in the EU, allowing us to answer with more confidence the question of which actors have guided the big bangs in the European integration process in the past two decades, and why.

Contents:

1.1 Constitutional reform or the 'big bangs' of European integration 1

1.2 Intergovernmental conferences in the European Union 3

1.3 Theoretical orientation - when and why leadership matters 5

1.4 Why leadership is necessary 6

1.5 The provision of leadership in EU constitutional negotiations 9

1.6 Leadership resources 10

1.7 The impact of the negotiating context 13

1.8 A typology of leadership strategies 16

2 The EU Presidency: France in the 2000 IGC / Jonas Tallberg 22

2.2 Presidency leadership in EU negotiations 24

2.3 Leadership resources of the EU Presidency 26

2.4 Negotiating context 27

2.5 France and IGC 2000 29

2.6 The power of the chair: assessing process and outcome 33

3 Drawing Lessons in the Chair: Assessing the Dutch Presidency's Impact during the Maastricht and Amsterdam Conferences / Colette Mazzucelli 38

3.2 Dutch preferences 40

3.3 The resources of the Dutch Presidency in the Maastricht and Amsterdam IGCs 40

3.4 The negotiation context from Maastricht to Amsterdam 44

3.5 The Dutch Presidency's impact on Treaty reform 46

4 The EU Presidency - Comparing the Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003-04 Intergovernmental Conference / Ben Crum 58

4.2 The context of the 2003-04 IGC 59

4.3 The negotiation of the 2003-04 IGC 60

5 Oiling the Wheels of Compromise: The Council Secretariat in the 1996-97 and 2003-4 IGCs / Derek Beach 76

5.2 The preferences and resources of the Council Secretariat 77

5.3 The role and impact of the Council Secretariat 79

6 Leader or Bystander? The European Commission and EU Treaty Reform / Hussein Kassim, Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos 94

6.2 Theorizing Commission influence in EU treaty reform 96

6.3 The Commission as a leader 99

6.4 The Commission and Treaty reform in an historical perspective 102

7 A Formal Outsider Becomes an Effective Player: The European Parliament in the Negotiation of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Constitutional Treaty / Andreas Maurer 115

7.1 Supranational parliamentarism in a multi-level polity 115

7.2 The European Parliament's own preferences in constitutional reform 116

7.3 Rethinking the scope of the European Parliament's leadership role at IGCs 117

7.4 Expectations concerning the European Parliament's leadership role 119

7.5 The participation of the European Parliament in the 1996-97 IGC 122

7.6 Influencing the outcome of the 1996-97 IGC 124

7.7 The European Parliament's strategies for the 2002-04 Convention and IGC 126

7.8 The 2002-04 Convention-IGC process 126

7.9 The participation of the EP at the IGC 2003-04 131

8 Big versus Small: Shared Leadership in the EU and Power Politics in the Convention / Simone Bunse, Paul Magnette, Kalypso Nicolaidis 134

8.2 The EU's institutional balance 135

8.3 Power politics in the Convention: the small versus big divide 141

8.4 Strategies and outcomes 148

9 Cooperative Hegemon, Missing Engine or Improbable Core? Explaining French-German Influence in European Treaty Reform / Colette Mazzucelli, Ulrike Guerot, Almut Metz 158

9.2 French and German preferences in EU constitutional negotiations 160

9.3 The resources of France and Germany 162

9.4 French-German leadership in European constitutional negotiations 167

10 Britain and the European Union: A Laggard Leader? / Alasdair Blair 178

10.2 Understanding British preferences in treaty reform 179

10.3 Leadership resources 184

10.4 Negotiating strategies 188

10.5 The nature of British engagement 190

11 The Constitutional Treaty and Poland - A New Laggard in the EU? / Krzysztof Bobinski 201

11.3 The Convention and the IGC 205

12 Is There Anyone in Charge? Leadership in EU Constitutional Negotiations / Renaud Dehousse, Florence Deloche-Gaudez 219

12.1 The fragmentation of leadership 219

12.2 Institutional reform as a polycentric process 221

12.3 Is leadership on the wane? 223

13.2 The findings 229

13.3 Comparing the leadership model to existing studies of EU constitutional negotiations 239

13.4 The implications - leadership in EU constitutional negotiations 243.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-262) and index.

ISBN:

1403998205

9781403998200

OCLC:

68373515

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