Postfunctionalism, identity and the Visegrad group
In: Journal of common market studies: JCMS, Band 58, Heft 4, S. 925-940
ISSN: 1468-5965
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In: Journal of common market studies: JCMS, Band 58, Heft 4, S. 925-940
ISSN: 1468-5965
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In: Politics and governance, Band 10, Heft 2, S. 246-255
ISSN: 2183-2463
The EU has been under severe strain as a free-travel area. The migration crisis of the mid-2010s and the current Covid-19 pandemic have exerted a negative impact on the freedom of movement in the EU and the undisturbed crossing of internal borders within the Schengen area. Direct effects and long-term consequences of the prolonged crisis have shown that the dynamics of integration, which are determined by spillover effects of transnational processes, are counterposed by a politicization of domestically-embedded issues of security governance. This assumption underpins the postfunctionalist approach to European integration proposed originally by Hooghe and Marks. The tendency towards longstanding derogations from the Schengen regime, termed "internal rebordering," should be juxtaposed with efforts of the European Commission towards a full restoration of the Schengen area without controls at internal borders. The argument developed in this article holds that internal rebordering has been embedded in the logic of the EU as an area of freedom, security, and justice comprising the Schengen area as its territorial manifestation. The rebordering processes in the EU and in the Schengen area have questioned the principle of "constraining dissensus" underlaying the postfunctionalist approach.
In: Journal of European integration: Revue d'intégration européenne, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 321-337
ISSN: 1477-2280
In: Journal of European integration, Band 36, Heft 3, S. 321-337
ISSN: 0703-6337
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 28, Heft 3, S. 350-369
ISSN: 1466-4429
In: Journal of European integration: Revue d'intégration européenne, Band 44, Heft 7, S. 941-959
ISSN: 1477-2280
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The crises that weigh heavily on the European Union (EU) in the 2010s have underlined the continued importance of integration theory, albeit in ways that go beyond classic debates. Postfunctionalism, in particular, has shown how European integration and its problems stand on shifting political cleavages. And yet, postfunctionalist claims that such changes would create a constraining dissensus in the EU rests uneasily with the intensification of European integration since the Maastricht Treaty was signed. This article offers a new intergovernmentalist explanation of this puzzle, which shows how mainstream governing parties have circumvented rather than being constrained by Eurosceptic challenger parties and challenger governments. The result, it contends, is not a constraining but a destructive dissensus that adds to the EU's political disequilibrium. Understanding the persistence of this disequilibrium and its potential to unwind disruptively is a key challenge for contemporary integration theory.
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In: Journal of European public policy, Band 26, Heft 8, S. 1153-1171
ISSN: 1466-4429
In: British journal of political science, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 217-220
ISSN: 1469-2112
In: British journal of political science, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 217-220
ISSN: 0007-1234
In: British journal of political science, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 217-220
ISSN: 1469-2112
Comments on "A Post functionalist Theory of European Integration: From Permissive Consensus to Constraining Dissenus" by Liesbet Hooghe and Gray marks.
This paper engages three theories—neofunctionalism, intergovernmentalism, and postfunctionalism—that have their intellectual roots in the study of European integration in the past century. The purpose of this paper is to assess their use value for explaining EU developments in the 21st century. We briefly describe the genesis of each school and outline what is distinctive about its approach in relation to four landmark events: the Eurocrisis, the migration crisis, Brexit, and illiberalism. We conclude that each provides a distinctive framework that disciplines thinking about key actors, arenas, and causal mechanisms.
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In: EU3D Research Paper No. 24
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In: Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2018/43
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Working paper
In: Constraining Dissensus and Permissive Consensus: Variations in Support for Core State Power Integration', West European Politics, doi:10.1080/01402382.2022.2104052
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