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In the Shadow of the Constitution: Common Foreign and Security Policy/European Security and Defence Policy Adapting to a Changing External Environment
Nickel, Dietmar; Quille, Gerrard - Jean Monnet Chair - 2007
Abstract: The European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) is understood as an important new "instrument" in the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) "toolbox", designed to respond to the contemporary security environment as well as to overcome the inaction and hesitancy of the past....
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How the enlargement challenges the institutions - or the existence - of the European Economic Area
Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2005
EU enlargement affects the member states of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The empirical focus is the impact … the EU and EFTA. I argue that the enlargement process has not challenged fundamentally the existenceof the EEA Agreement … nor its institutions. The legality of the agreement has not been challenged, nor has enlargement triggered protests or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040421
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Two Worlds of Europeanisation Unpacking Models of Government Innovation and Transgovernmental Imitation
Trondal, Jarle - In: European Integration online Papers (EIoP) 9 (2005) 01
Whereas domestic public policy is increasingly penetrated by international organisations, domestic government institutions seem less adaptive. This puzzle triggers the following question: To what extent is the Europeanisation of domestic Research and Higher Educational policy (R&E policy)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969233
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Norway's European conundrum
Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2008
issues in Norway. The question of Norwegian EU membership has been turned down in two popular referenda, and three … pillars, Norway has become tightly incorporated in the EU. Norway’s ‘tight incorporation without formal membership’ has … contentious issues from debate and decision-making. These mechanisms have helped smooth Norway’s incorporation in the EU, a type …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611118
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Public perceptions of the EU as a system of governance
Rohrschneider, Robert; Loveless, Matthew - In: Living Reviews in European Governance (LREG) (2011)
Since its inception, the European Union has stimulated many vigorous debates. This Living Review provides a state of the field perspective on the academic work that has been done to address the question of the perceptions of the European Union as a system of governance. It takes a broad scope in...
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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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Assessing the Implications of EU Enlargement for the Existing Member States: The Public Opinion Perspective
Sinnott, Richard - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005029502
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Explaining Opposition to Turkish Membership of the EU
McLaren, Lauren M. - In: European Union Politics 8 (2007) 2, pp. 251-278
This article examines EU citizen attitudes to Turkey's bid to join the EU. The key theoretical constructs investigated to explain opposition to Turkey's EU membership are related to rational economic self-interest and group-level interests and concerns. The findings indicate that the former are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772678
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Public Support for Enlargement: Economic, Cultural, or Normative?
Hazama, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
The current research questioned whether public opinion on enlargement can be adequately explained only by economic …-play a critical role in pushing forward enlargement. Drawing on the perspective of international relations, this study … introduced a synthetic model to analyze public opinion on enlargement in the EU's 15 old member states. The analysis using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222484
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Public Opinion and Enlargement
Jones, Erik; Bijl, Niels van der - In: European Union Politics 5 (2004) 3, pp. 331-351
This paper examines European Union (EU) member state attitudes toward enlargement. We use Eurobarometer data for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011136972