Journal of European Integration Special Issues
About the Book Series
The Journal of European Integration book series is designed to make the Special Issues accessible to a wider audience. All of the themes covered by the Special Issues and the series are carefully selected with regard to the topicality of the questions addressed in the individual volumes, as well as to the quality of the contributions. The result is a series of books that are sufficiently short to appeal to the curious reader, but that also offer ample depth of analysis to appeal to the more specialist reader, with contributions from leading academics.
Europe after Enlargement
1st Edition
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By Yannis Stivachtis, Mark Webber
October 14, 2024
The enlargement of European-based organisations has reached a near terminal point. The Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) currently cover virtually all states of Europe (Belarus still remains excluded from the first of these). The EU and NATO have ...
European Neighbourhood through Civil Society Networks?: Policies, Practices and Perceptions
1st Edition
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By James Wesley Scott, Ilkka Liikanen
October 14, 2024
This book pursues a dual objective: on the one hand, it focuses on the actual and potential roles of civil society in developing new forms of political, economic, and socio-cultural cooperation between the European Union and its neighbours. On the other hand, through this investigation of civil ...
Globalization and EU Competition Policy
1st Edition
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By Umut Aydin, Kenneth Thomas
October 14, 2024
Competition policy—encompassing cartels, monopolies, mergers and state aid—is a hallmark of the European Union (EU). In recent decades, the EU’s competition policy has evolved under pressures from globalization. The EU in turn has been a key actor driving the globalization of the world economy ...
The European Parliament in the Contested Union: Power and Influence Post-Lisbon
1st Edition
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By Edoardo Bressanelli, Nicola Chelotti
June 24, 2024
The European Parliament in the Contested Union provides a systematic assessment of the real influence of the European Parliament (EP) in policy-making. Ten years after the coming into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, which significantly empowered Europe’s only directly elected institution, the ...
Crisis and Politicisation: The Framing and Re-framing of Europe’s Permanent Crisis
1st Edition
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By Benedetta Voltolini, Michal Natorski, Colin Hay
September 25, 2023
This book elucidates the link between the politics of a now seemingly permanent crisis in Europe and the politicisation of European integration. Looking at the epistemic dimension of crises, it suggests that the way in which a crisis is framed and contested determines its potential impact on the ...
Renegotiating Authority in EU Energy and Climate Policy
1st Edition
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By Anna Herranz-Surrallés, Israel Solorio, Jenny Fairbrass
September 25, 2023
In the context of multiple crises, EU Energy and Climate policy is often identi□ed as one of the few areas still exhibiting strong integration dynamics. However, this domain is not exempt from contestation and re-nationalization pressures. This collection seeks to understand those contradictory ...
Understanding Conflicts of Sovereignty in the EU
1st Edition
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By Nathalie Brack, Ramona Coman, Amandine Crespy
September 25, 2023
This book investigates the multifaceted conflicts of sovereignty in the recent crises in the European Union. Although the notion of sovereignty has been central in the contentious debates triggered by the recent crises in the European Union, it remains strikingly under-researched in political ...
Public Policy and the CJEU’s Power: Bringing Stakeholders In
1st Edition
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By Emmanuelle Mathieu, Christian Adam, Miriam Hartlapp
June 30, 2021
Public Policy and the CJEU’s Power offers an overarching analytical framework for thinking about the impact of policy contexts on the CJEU’s influence on European public policy and the course of European integration. Thereby, it lays out a research agenda that is best described as public policy ...
Redefining European Economic Governance
1st Edition
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By Michele Chang, Georg Menz, Mitchell P. Smith
December 18, 2020
The global financial crisis and sovereign debt crisis exposed the inadequacy of European economic governance. Despite the multitude of new mechanisms and institutions that have arisen over the last few years, many contend that economic governance remains inadequate and the EU must integrate even ...
Representation and Democracy in the EU: Does one come at the expense of the other?
1st Edition
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By Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger
December 18, 2020
This book explores the various ways in which citizens are represented in EU policy-making. Most accounts naturally focus on the European Parliament as the prime source of democratic representation. This collection focuses instead on four other channels that are as and often more important: namely, ...
Parliaments in EU Economic Governance: Powers, Potential and Practice
1st Edition
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By Diane Fromage, Ton van den Brink
September 30, 2020
This book considers national parliaments’ and the European Parliament’s role in European Union (EU) economic governance. It examines the recent strengthening of parliamentary involvement, limitations to improvements, and where and how democratic deficits still exist. It also provides the basis for ...
The EU and the New Trade Bilateralism: 21st Century Trade
1st Edition
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By Finn Laursen, Christilla Roederer-Rynning
September 30, 2020
International trade policy, including the trade policies of the European Union (EU), has become controversial in recent years. This book illuminates the politicised process of the EU’s contemporary trade negotiations.The book uses the notion of ‘contentious market regulation’ to examine ...