The Informal Construction of Europe

ISBN-13: 9780367732042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str.

Lennaert Van Heumen; Mechthild Roos

Opis

Including case studies that discuss both successful and failed examples of informal action in European integration, this book assembles cutting-edge research by both early-career and more experienced scholars from all over Europe to fill this lacuna.

Spis treści

Part I: Analysing the Informal Dimensions of European Integration  1. Introduction [Mechthild Roos and Lennaert van Heumen]  2. Studying the Informal in European Integration: a Research Guide [Mechthild Roos, with Christine Neuhold]  3. Of Treaties, Conventions and Habits: How Informal Integration Interacts with Formal Integration [N. Piers Ludlow]  Part II: Ideas  4. A Wartime Narrative of Hope: The Freiburger Bonhoeffer-Kreis’s 1943 Memorandum as a Blueprint for Europe [Jorrit Steehouder and Clemens van den Berg]  5. The Controversy Surrounding the Idea of a European Supranational University [Lars Lehmann]  6. An Atlantic or European Union? Informal Networks and the Debate on Atlantic and European Integration During the Early Cold War (1945-1963) [Lennaert van Heumen]  Part III: Actors  7. The Appeal and Limitations of Federalism: The Union of European Federalists and the Spanish Transition to Democracy [Carlos López Gómez]  8. Human Rights and Foreign Aid: Three NGOs Influencing the European Community (1974-1979) [Ilaria Zamburlini]  9. Informality in European Foreign Policy: The Evolution of the Early Group of Seven [Andi Shehu]  Part IV: Procedures  10. How Lawyers Became Essential Intermediaries Between Firms and the European Commission: Procedural Reform in Competition Cases (1962-1983) [Lola Avril]  11. The Informal Character of the Western European Union: European Defence, Industry and Integration [Sara Venditti]  12. Fuzzy Roles in EU External Relations Governance: The Difficult Construction of Informal Policy Coordination Frameworks [Daniel Schade]  Part V: Conclusion  13. How Informality Can Play Out in European Integration [Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol]

O autorze

Lennaert van Heumen is a PhD candidate and Lecturer at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Mechthild Roos is a visiting fellow of the Institute of Political Science, University of Luxembourg and a Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Augsburg University, Germany.