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Am 9. März 1995 Unterzeichneten die USA, Japan und Südkorea die Gründungsakte der Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO). Das Ziel der KEDO ist die Umsetzung des Genfer Rahmenabkommens zwischen den USA und der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Korea, das kurzfristig das nordkoreanische Nuklearprogramm auf dem Stand von 1994 einfriert. Langfristig sollen die bestehenden nordkoreanischen Nuklearanlagen mit Hilfe der KEDO vollständig demontiert und durch moderne, proliferationsresistente Leichtwasserreaktoren (LWR) ersetzt werden. Aufgabe der KEDO ist es hierbei einerseits, die Finanzierung für die beiden LWR bereitzustellen und andererseits die Energieversorgung Nordkoreas durch die Lieferung von Alternativenergie bis zur Fertigstellung der beiden Reaktoren zu ergänzen.

The European Union is a polity in the making, where political actors contend about basic questions of governance. While students have begun to map contention between public parties and private interests, little attention has been paid to how office-holders in the Commission conceive of European integration. Using interview data collected from 140 senior officials of the Commission, I identify contention along four dimensions: whether the EU should have supranational or intergovernmental institutions; whether it should use democratic or technocratic decision making; whether it should promote regulated capitalism or market liberalism; and whether the elite should defend the European public good or be responsive to various interests. My findings challenge EU theories that conceive of the Commission as a unitary actor with a pro-integration agenda. (British Journal of Political Science / FUB)

The article addresses the politics of agenda-setting in the European Union (EU) policy process by utilizing the case of media ownership regulation. The author argues that the selection of a 'frame' (as defined in Schön and Rein, 1994) for media ownership regulation has been the object of conflict between and within EU institutions, most crucially within the Commission. Conflict, however, has been a resource in the policy process as it has brought in different legitimate interests and perspectives. The article has theoretical implications for the study of agenda-setting, organizational behaviour in the EU, and the analysis of the EU policy process. (Journal of Common Market Studies / FUB)