Governance Approaches to European Integration

Abstract: After twenty years of continuous deepening and widening, European integration has entered an era of recurrent crises. Most students of the European Union (EU) seem to agree that the constitutional equilibrium between intergovernmental and supranational institutions has changed. Some see “new intergovernmentalism” and “integration without supranationalisation” prevail. Others contend that we witness a series of functional and institutional spillovers empowering supranational institutions. This paper argues that governance approaches are particularly useful to address the puzzling counter-positions represented in the current debate about the ‘nature of the beast. They are better equipped to explore how and to what end institutional structures and processes have responded to the crises than mainstream integration theories. The paper starts with introducing the “governance turn” in EU studies as the attempt of EU scholars in the early 1990s to capture the nature of the EU. It then pres

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 26 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Erstveröffentlichung
begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
KFG Working Paper Series ; Bd. 84

Classification
Politik

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2018
Creator
Contributor
Freie Universität Berlin, FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57628-2
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated

  • Börzel, Tanja
  • Freie Universität Berlin, FB Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften, Otto-Suhr-Institut für Politikwissenschaft Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe"

Time of origin

  • 2018

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