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The debate about the European Constitution has generated a considerable degree of media attention over the last years. This article takes a bird’s eye view on the whole process aiming for an understanding of how the dynamics of public debate changed when the baton was passed from the...
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This case study of the evolvement of the so-called Dublin II Regulation on asylum demonstrates the role of Council-specific informal rules and procedures in facilitating intergovernmental agreement. The paper addresses a Rationalist "puzzle", namely the question why the Justice and Home Affairs...
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This paper discusses European influence on Norwegian legal doctrine in a historical and scholar perspective. Legal relations to Europe are perhaps more conspicuous today than ever before, represented by Community law as well as the European convention of human rights. However, Norwegian...
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In May 2004 the European Union (EU) was enlarged to include ten new member states. In this article, I discuss how the EU enlargement affects the member states of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The empirical focus is the impact on the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA),...
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An organisational approach to European integration focuses on individual actors’ organisational context in order to account for their behaviour, interests and identities. Intergovernmentalists usually preclude any profound impact of EU institutions and organisations. Institutionalists (other...
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Process tracing is in, acquiring near buzz-word status in certain circles. Europeanists do it; IR scholars do it – all with the goal of bringing theory closer to what really goes on in the world. This makes our scholarship more policy relevant and increases the reliability of our findings -...
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Diplomacy as a framework of principles, rules and organized patterns of behavior regulating interstate relations in the Westphalian system of states is challenged by the process of European integration. This paper conceptualizes diplomacy and its change using two new institutionalist...
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This article has been published in Tidsskrift for samfunnsforning Vol. 47, No.2, pp. 259-274
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The purpose of the EEA Agreement is to integrate the remaining EFTA countries (except Switzerland) into the EU’s internal market. Norway was required to incorporate the material legal rules that were in force at the time when the EEA Agreement was ratified, and remains committed to...
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