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Politicisation of European Integration: Bringing the Process into Focus

Wilde, Pieter de - ARENA - 2007

This conceptual paper provides a working definition of politicisation of European integration, based on a literature review. Politicisation has often been used by political scientists interested in European integration. We observe that research using the concept is rarely interested in the...

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Legitimate Political Rule Without a State? An Analysis of Joseph H. H. Weiler’s Justification of the Legitimacy of the European Union Qua Non-statehood

Gaus, Daniel - ARENA - 2008

Contributions in the normative debate on the legitimacy of the EU are frequently based on two premises: The first … nation-state, but cannot justify the legitimacy of the EU. Consequently, it is claimed that “there is an urgent need to re …-set the standards by which we assess the legitimacy of European integration and of the institutions which guide the process …

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How the enlargement challenges the institutions - or the existence - of the European Economic Area

Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2005

could make the legitimacy and the fulfillment of the principal aims of the EEA more difficult. First, I argue that the …

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Reflexive Integration in Europe

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2004

Integration may occur through coercion and intergovernmental bargaining - through blackmail, tradition, functional adaptation, copying, diffusion or exit - but it may also occur through reflexive reason-giving and entrenched commitments. The usefulness of such an approach to transnational and...

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