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The post-Cold War is drawing to a close. For the first time since 1945 Europe is about to experience the centrifugal forces of multipolarity. It does so after two decades of intense institution with a collective presence in the shape of the European Union. Asle Toje asks the question, what place will the EU take in a multipolar global order? In examining the historical forces that converged in the post-war integration project, the efforts to construct a common foreign and security policy and experiences from the field, he argues that due to the lack of a workable decision-making mechanism the EU is destined to play the limited but at the same time distinct role of a small power. Toje explains that only with the surge of integration in the post-Cold War era and the restraining force of sovereignty - both linked to the emergence of the European Union as a small power - has a situation been created that signals a return to balance of power politics. The selfless character of the EU foreign policy and the strength of the United States allow the EU to exercise strategic restraint and establish stable relations with emerging powers despite rapid shifts and extreme disparities in power.

How should political community be seen in the context of European integration? This book combines a theoretical treatment of political allegiance with a study of ordinary citizens, examining how taxi-drivers in Britain, Germany and the Czech Republic talk politics and situate themselves relative to political institutions and other citizens.

Cover -- About the website -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Timelines -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Purpose of This Book -- Why European Integration Matters -- The Basic Structure of the EU -- Plan of the Book and Learning Objectives -- Part I: The History of European Integration -- 1: The Idea of Europe: Foundations and Justifications for Unity -- 1.0 Introduction: What and Where Is Europe? -- 1.1 The Historical Background to Thinking about European Unity -- 1.2 Early Ideas and Pioneers of Unity -- 1.2.1 William Penn -- 1.2.2 Abbot Saint Pierre -- 1.2.3 Immanuel Kant -- 1.2.4 Aristide Briand -- 1.3 The Peace or Civilizing Justification for Unity -- 1.4 The Prosperity Justification for Unity -- 1.5 The Strengthening State Capacity Justification for Unity -- 1.6 Concluding Summary -- Guide to Further Reading -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- 2: The Institutional Development of European Integration, 1945-1973 -- 2.0 Introduction: Uniting for Peace -- 2.1 The Struggle to Resolve Post-War Security and Economic Issues, 1945-1951 -- 2.2 The Creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951 -- 2.3 The Functioning of the ECSC and the Attempt at Full Military and Political Union, 1951-1957 -- 2.4 The Continuing Pursuit of Economic Integration: Creating the EEC, 1957 -- 2.5 Overcoming the First Tests: The Common Agricultural Policy and the Empty Chair Crisis, 1957-1973 -- 2.5.1 The launch of the Common Agricultural Policy -- 2.5.2 The empty chair crisis -- 2.6 Concluding Summary -- Guide to Further Reading -- Discussion Questions -- Web Resources -- References -- 3: The Institutional Development of European Integration, 1973-2010 -- 3.0 Introduction: The Widening and Deepening of European Integration.

Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- 1.1 The Need for Explanations of European Disintegration -- 1.2 The Search for an Explanation of European Disintegration -- References -- Chapter 2: Neo-functionalism and European Disintegration -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Neo-functionalism and Integration -- 2.3 A Neo-functionalist Explanation of Disintegration Evaluated -- 2.4 Insights from Comparative Regionalism -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Realism, Intergovernmentalism, and European Disintegration -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Realism and Cooperation in Europe -- 3.2.1 Neo-realist Accounts of Declining Cooperation and Their Evaluation -- 3.3 Intergovernmentalism -- 3.3.1 From Classical Realism to Neoliberal Institutionalism -- 3.3.2 Liberal Intergovernmentalism on European Integration -- 3.3.3 Liberal Intergovernmentalism and European Disintegration -- 3.3.4 Problems in the Intergovernmentalist Explanation of European (Dis)integration -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Federalism and European Disintegration -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Comparative Federalism and Its Applicability to the European Union -- 4.3 Integration and Disintegration of Federal Political Systems -- 4.4 Secession and the European Union -- 4.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Comparative Imperialism and European Disintegration -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Empire as Comparative Category -- 5.3 Defining Empire and Imperialism -- 5.4 Is the EU an Empire? -- 5.5 Explaining the Decline and Fall of Empires -- 5.5.1 EU Theories Concerning Enlargement -- 5.6 Comparative Analysis of Disintegrating Empires -- 5.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Towards a Proper Explanation of European Disintegration -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Lessons Learned.

The increasing importance of civil society and civil society actors in recent decades has ensured that they now feature prominently in the European Union's enlargement strategy with the EU now possessing a series of policies on civil society in line with its perceived importance in the expansion of the Eurozone. Drawing on interviews with civil society organizations and in conjunction with an examination of EU Civil Society Policy and the legal and institutional environment in Turkey, this book questions the impact that these policies have had on Turkish civil society suggesting that it is, at best, limited. Instead this book argues that the EU could not accomplish its expected objectives within the framework of its civil society policy in Turkey due to a universalist understanding that ignores the current domestic structure of Turkish civil society as well as disregarding its political nature and the autonomous character of Turkey's civil society actors. The result is one of the most wide-ranging and in-depth studies on Turkish civil society and European Union, as such it is an important text for students and scholars of EU enlargement and civil society.

This edited collection brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to explore how the European Union engages with culture. The book examines the ways in which cultural issues have been framed at the EU level and the policies and instruments to which they have given vent

Analyses the impact of the managerial reforms of the European Commission. In 1999 the resignation of the College of Commissioners triggered the implementation of a White Paper which listed 98 measures to overhaul the way the Commission did business. Ten years later what impact have the reforms had on the European Commission and European governance?

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Metagoverning Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland -- Chapter 3. The genesis of the European Union/Northern Ireland peacebuilding network -- Chapter 4. The 1984 Haagerup Report on the situation in Northern Ireland -- Chapter 5. European Union Structural Funds programmes on the island of Ireland: Interreg and the cross-border dimension -- Chapter 6. The European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland -- Chapter 7. The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: cross-border cooperation and peacebuilding in the context of the new institutions -- Chapter 8. Conclusion. .

Most of the papers presented at the International Seminar on the European Union in World Politics, held at New Delhi during 21-22 May 2003

This open access book provides the first ever authoritative collection of scholarly insights, based upon original research, into the political groups of the EP tackling the fundamental changes since the Lisbon Treaty and the upsurge of radical right parties. It analyses political groups and their importance from multiple perspectives critically assessing their role and significance in EU politics. Each chapter is authored by leading scholars in the field, working on key topics in relation to political groups: political group formation and function, their role in parliamentary and EU policy-making, the way that Eurosceptic MEPs influence (or not) the Parliament, and the nature and form of interactions with external actors. In doing so, each chapter opens hitherto unexplored 'black boxes' in the political work of the EP, such as the internal practices of, and power relations within the political groups, and informal arenas of intra-group decision-making.

The Euro crisis catapulted the EU into its most serious political crisis since its inception, leaving it torn between opposing demands for more sovereignty and solidarity. This volume focuses on the key themes of disunion, sovereignty and solidarity. It assesses the main EU institutions: member states, civil society actors and policy areas.

The tide of 'Europe of the Regions' rhetoric that dominated much political discussion and thinking in the 1980s and 1990s has gradually ebbed. Governance in Europe today may be characterized as 'multi-level', but the nation state remains the dominant level for many purposes. Are Europe's regions, and European regionalism, therefore of little ₆ and diminishing ₆ consequence? This book addresses this question by examining the experiences of regions and regionalism across western, central and eastern Europe. A team of leading country specialists presents analyses of both the larger states of Europe and many of their smaller counterparts, updated to include the impact of the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007. The conclusions of this book are that there is a growing diversity of European regions, and a wide variety of regionalizing imperatives. Regionalism may not have overthrown the nation state, but Europe's regions, and European regionalism, have a persisting importance to the politics of the continent.