The European Council and European Governance (eBook, PDF)

The Commanding Heights of the EU
Redaktion: Foret, François; Rittelmeyer, Yann-Sven

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, the failure of the constitutional process, the difficult ratification and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, as well as the several crises affecting Europe have revitalized the debate on the nature of the European polity and the balance of powers in Brussels. This book explains the redistribution of power in the post-Lisbon EU with a focus on the European Council.

Reform of institutions and the creation of new political functions at the top of the European Union have raised fresh questions about leadership and accountability. This book argues that the European Union exhibits a political order with hierarchies, mechanisms of domination and legitimating narratives. As such, it can be understood by analysing what happens at its summit. Taking the European Council as the nexus of European political governance, contributors consider council and rotating presidencies' co-operation, rivalry and opposition. The book combines approaches through events, processes and political structures, issues and the biographical trajectories of actors and explores how the founding compromise of European integration between sovereignty and supranationality is affected by the evolving nature of this new European political model which aims to combine cooperation and integration.

The European Council and European Governance will be of strong interest to students and scholars of European studies, political science, political sociology, public policy and international relations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317962359
• Artikelnr.: 40146475

Autorenporträt

François Foret is Jean Monnet professor in political science and European studies at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Yann-Sven Rittelmeyer is Research Fellow in the Study Committee for Franco-German Relations (Cerfa) at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri) in Paris, France.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction François Foret and Yann-Sven Rittelmeyer PART I: The
European Council as an institution and a policy-maker 2. The Institutional
Consecration of the European Council: Symbolism beyond Formal
TextsYann-Sven Rittelmeyer 3. More than a Prestigious Spokesperson - the
Role of Summits and the European Council in European Political Co-operation
(EPC), 1969-1981 Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol 4. EU High Politics - the Policy
Agenda of the European Council, 1975-2011 Petya Alexandrova, Marcello
Carammia and Arco Timmermans PART II: The EU Presidency and the European
Council - complementary or competitive? 5. What's Left of the Rotating
Presidency? The Future of 'National' PresidenciesSimone Bunse and
Christopher Klein 6. The Communautarization of the Council Presidency -
Intra-institutional Dimensions and Inter-institutional Effect Ana Mar
Fernández Pasarín 7. The Council Presidency and the European Council -
Towards Collective Leadership in the EU Steven Van Hecke and Peter Bursens
PART III: Legitimization of the European Union 8. An Expectation-Outcome
Gap Writ Large - the Felipe González Reflection Group Revisited Lars
Hoffman and Hartmut Mayer 9. Legitimacy in Numbers? Communicative Aspects
of the Post-Lisbon EU François Foret 10. Problems of Compound
Representation in the European Union after Lisbon Christopher Lord