Research Agendas in EU Studies Stalking the Elephant

, by Paterson, William E.; Nugent, Neill; Egan, Michelle P.

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ISBN: 9780230555259 | 023055525X
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Copyright: 1/15/2010

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Leading scholars explore the complex questions arising from the ongoing transformation of Europe through the deepening and widening effects of European integration. Based on authoritative analyses, the book takes account of the many national, transnational and international processes and contexts in which European integration has become embedded.

List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
List of Abbreviations	p. x
Notes on the Contributors	p. xii
Preface	p. xv
Introduction: Researching the European Union	p. 1
The 'explosion' in European Union studies	p. 1
The focus of the book	p. 3
Themes of the book	p. 4
The contents of the book	p. 7
The European Union and European Union studies	p. 11
History Aplenty: But Still Too Isolated	p. 14
From ideas to states and institutions and back again?	p. 14
Broad but too uncritical and isolated?	p. 21
So where now?	p. 27
Conclusion	p. 30
Integration Theory	p. 37
Introduction	p. 37
Theory development	p. 38
Constructivism	p. 40
Enlargement	p. 45
Future agendas	p. 50
The European Union's Institutions	p. 60
An overview of the unfolding of the research and associated literature	p. 60
Conceptually based approaches facilitating an understanding of EU institutions	p. 62
Taking stock of existing knowledge on the institutions	p. 72
The impact of enlargement on EU institutions	p. 78
Institutions in the Lisbon Treaty	p. 80
Future perspectives for research	p. 82
Leadership and Intergovernmental Negotiations in the European Union	p. 92
Introduction	p. 92
The theoretical debate on the importance of leadership	p. 94
The empirical record; leadership during the past 25 years of European integration	p. 104
Directions for future research	p. 112
Conclusions	p. 113
Governance and European Integration	p. 117
Introduction	p. 117
What is governance?	p. 118
Propositions about European governance	p. 120
Summary and conclusions	p. 129
Democracy and European Union Governance	p. 134
The state of the debate: democratic legitimacy and EU governance	p. 134
Can and should the EU be democratic? Answers and trajectories from different models of democracy	p. 136
New research agendas	p. 155
European Union Law: A Tale of Microscopes and Telescopes	p. 169
Changing perspectives	p. 169
Changing content	p. 178
Future challenges	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 184
New Directions in Europeanization Research	p. 189
Classic (but implicit) expectations about Europeanization	p. 190
Definitional issues	p. 192
The domains	p. 194
Explanation	p. 197
A look at bibliometric data	p. 199
Conclusions	p. 208
Political Economy	p. 216
Introduction	p. 216
Early developments and debates in European economic integration	p. 218
Impact of integration on national economies	p. 224
Globalization and regionalism	p. 230
From market embeddedness to constitutional asymmetry	p. 231
Future directions for research	p. 232
Conclusions	p. 239
Monetary Union	p. 256
EMU as a suboptimal currency area	p. 257
Structural reform	p. 262
Economic governance	p. 265
Conclusion	p. 270
Justice and Home Affairs	p. 278
State of the art	p. 278
Diagnosis	p. 288
Future directions for research	p. 293
Conclusion	p. 295
Feminist Approaches	p. 305
Legislating for equal opportunities	p. 306
Positive action	p. 310
Gender mainstreaming	p. 311
Diversity	p. 313
Gendered changes in the policy-making process	p. 315
Beyond employment: violence	p. 317
Actors for gender equality	p. 318
Conclusion	p. 321
The European Union in the World: Future Research Agendas	p. 329
Core questions for research on the EU in the world	p. 330
State of the art	p. 339
Agendas for future research	p. 343
Conclusion	p. 343
Europe and Globalization	p. 354
Globalization and Europe: scope and definition	p. 355
The impact of globalization on Europe	p. 357
The imprint of Europe on globalization	p. 361
Conclusion: globalization and the EU's legitimacy	p. 366
The Future Shape of the European Union	p. 375
Introduction	p. 375
The State of the art: EU enlargement and EU external governance	p. 377
Future research challenges on enlargement: how far and how fast will the EU's geographical shape change?	p. 383
Future research on the EU's functional reach: the limits of external governance through conditionality	p. 389
Conclusion	p. 394
Hastening Slowly: European Union Studies - Between Reinvention and Continuing Fragmentation	p. 398
Disciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the EU	p. 399
Theoretical reflections	p. 401
Informal processes and the governance turn	p. 406
Empirical lacunae	p. 408
The overdue turn to domestic politics	p. 409
Contentious politics	p. 412
Towards a balance	p. 414
Index	p. 421
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