Transnational Power Elites: The New Professionals of Governance, Law and Security

ISBN-13: 9780415665247 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 220 str.

Niilo Kauppi; Mikael Rask Madsen

Opis

This book argues that European Union institutional mechanics and the EU as a political unit cannot be properly understood without taking into account the elites that make the policy decisions.

Spis treści

1. Transnational Power Elites: The New Professionals of Governance, Law and Security, Niilo Kauppi and Mikael Rask Madsen  Part I: Governance  2. The Triumph and Despair of Central Banking, Martin Marcussen  3. The Institutionalisation of the European Administrative Corps as a Transnational Elite, Didier Georgakakis  4. European Diplomats: State Nobility and the Invention of a New Social Group, Rebecca Adler-Nissen  5. Elite Transformations and Diffusion in Foreign Policy: A Socio-Historical Approach to the Emergence of European Power Elites, Karen Gram-Skjoldager and Ann-Christina L. Knudsen  Part II: Law  6. The Genesis of Europe: Competing Elites and the Emergence of a European Field of Power, Antonin Cohen  7. Elite European lawyers? The Common Market as new Golden Age or Missed Opportunity, Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth  Part III: Security  8. The Transnational Field of Computerised Exchange of Information in Police Matters and its European Guilds, Didier Bigo  9. The European Military Elite, Frédéric Mérand and Patrick Barrette  Postscript: Understanding Transnational Power Elites, Understanding Europe in the New World Order, Niilo Kauppi and Mikael Rask Madsen