The European Union and 2nd pillar integration : the common foreign and security policy / Meltem Muftuler-Bac -- The European security and defence policy : capabilities and institutions / Gulnur Aybet -- The EU as an international actor : "civilian", "normative" or "military" power? / Yannis A....

In order to be simultaneously effective and liberal, governments must normally be able to count on voluntary compliance - which, in turn, depends on the support of socially shared legitimacy beliefs. In Western constitutional democracies, such beliefs are derived from the distinct but coexistent...

Europäisierungsprozesse werden vielfach als Bedrohung wahrgenommen. Weil das spezifisch "europäische" am Transformationsprozess von Staatlichkeit nicht so richtig zu fassen ist, bleibt als Ausweg nur die Argumentation mit dem Staat. So auch im Lissabon-Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts, das...

In a recent article, Caporaso and Tarrow have argued that the jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is increasingly moving in a social policy direction that will ultimately put European politics on a “Polanyian” course. We take issue with their claim and distinguish three...