The most recent transformation of world order is often depicted as a shift from a Westphalian to a post-Westphalian era in which international organizations are becoming increasingly independent sites of authority. This internationalization of authority is often considered as an indication of...

This contribution contends that the European Union (EU) has taken an authoritarian turn in the past crisis decade, which needs to be systematically addressed in EU studies. Starting from an ideal-typical conception of scenarios for the EU's emergent political order, it argues that there has been...

European Studies used to be dominated by legal and political science approaches which hailed the progress of European integration and its reliance on law. The recent set of crises which struck the EU have highlighted fundamental problems in the ways and means by which European integration...

European Studies used to be dominated by legal and political science approaches which hailed the progress of European integration and its reliance on law. The recent set of crises which struck the EU have highlighted fundamental problems in the ways and means by which European integration...

Nachdem die Europäische Währungsunion in Kraft getreten ist, richtet sich nun das Interesse darauf, ob die EU als Stabilitätsgemeinschaft Bestand hat. Schon 1996 hatte die EU im Stabilitätspakt Kriterien festgelegt, denen die Euroländer dauerhaft entsprechen müssen: Welche ökonomischen...