Making History

European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty

Edited by Sophie Meunier
Kathleen R. McNamara

This volume argues that the EU today may be at a crossroads--not because of the failed EU Constitution referenda but rather because of the unresolved tensions in European governance not banished with the referenda's defeat. Meunier and McNamara's collection is the first to comprehensively examine these challenging issues using the tools of historical institutionalism to analyze the past and future political and institutional trajectory of the European Union across a wide variety of policy areas. Together, the volume's authors provide a remarkably coherent theoretical approach to the key questions facing Europe, drawing a portrait of the EU today that reveals a robust, but not invulnerable, set of institutions and practices.

Making History

European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty

Edited by Sophie Meunier
Kathleen R. McNamara

Description

Fifty years ago, the leaders of six European states signed the Treaty of Rome, creating the European Economic Community and launching the process of European integration. From that starting point evolved today's European Union (EU), the most successful example of institutionalized political cooperation in history. The EU now encompasses a much broader array of responsibilities than originally planned, its membership has widened to 25 countries, and its legislation and jurisprudence has come to supersede national law. Contestation has accompanied success, however, and the intense debate in many European countries over the EU Constitution throughout the course of 2005 revealed deep divisions between and within European countries around issues such as EU institutions, the elusive European identity, a European economic malaise, and the role of the EU as a world power. Was the constitutional crisis a turning point for European integration?

This volume argues that the EU today may be at a crossroads--not because of the failed referenda but rather because of the unresolved tensions in European governance not banished with the referenda's defeat. Meunier and McNamara's collection is the first to comprehensively examine these challenging issues using the tools of historical institutionalism to analyze the past and future political and institutional trajectory of the European Union across a wide variety of policy areas. Together, the volume's authors provide a remarkably coherent theoretical approach to the key questions facing Europe, drawing a portrait of the EU today that reveals a robust, but not invulnerable, set of institutions and practices.

Making History

European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty

Edited by Sophie Meunier
Kathleen R. McNamara

Introduction, Sophie Meunier and Kathleen McNamara
Part 1 The Past and Future of European Institutional Integration
1. The European Constitutional Settlement, Andrew Moravcsik
2. Built to Last? The Durability of EU Federalism, R. Daniel Kelemen
3. Informal Decision-Making in the Council: The Secret of the EU's Success?, Dorothee Heisenberg
4. The Theory and Reality of the European Coal and Steel Community, Karen J. Alter and David Steinberg
5. Historical Institutionalism and the EU's Eastward Enlargement, Milada Anna Vachudova
Part 2 The Politics of Markets
6. Protecting Privacy in Europe: Administrative Feedbacks and Regional Politics, Abraham Newman
7. Financial Transformation in the European Union, Elliot Posner
8. The European Company Statute and the Governance Dilemma, Orfeo Fioretos
9. The Politics of Competition and Institutional Change in European Union: The First Fifty Years, Tim Büthe
10. A Historical Institutionalist Analysis of the Road to Economic and Monetary Union: A Journey with Many Crossroads, Amy Verdun
Part 3 Law and Society
11. The Constitutionalization of the European Union: Explaining the Parliamentarization and Institutionalization of Human Rights, Berthold Rittberger and Frank Schimmelfennig
12. The Evolution of EU Citizenship, Willem Maas
13. EU Social Policy, or, How Far Up Do You Like Your Safety Net?, Ailish Johnson
Part 4 The EU as a Sovereign State in World Politics
14. Understanding the European Union as a Global Political Actor: Theory, Practice, and Impact, Roy H. Ginsberg and Michael E. Smith
15. Trade and Transatlantic Relations: Old Dogs and New Tricks, John Peterson and Alasdair R. Young
16. From EU Model to External Policy?, Mary Farrell

Making History

European Integration and Institutional Change at Fifty

Edited by Sophie Meunier
Kathleen R. McNamara

Author Information

Sophie Meunier is a Research Scholar in Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Trading Voices: The European Union in International Commercial Negotiations http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/8084.html (Princeton University Press, August 2005) and The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/press/books/french challenge .htm (with Philip Gordon, Brookings Institution Press, December 2001), winner of the 2002 France-Ameriques book award http://www.france-ameriques.org/. Meunier has published many articles on the European Union, the politics of international trade, globalization, and French politics. Her current research focuses on anti-Americanism in France, the complex links between Europeanization and globalization, and the nesting/overlapping of international institutions.
Kathleen McNamara is Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University. She is the author of The Currency of Ideas: Monetary Politics in the European Union (Cornell University Press, 1998) and articles on the social embeddedness of the economy, central banking, and globalization. Her current research compares the creation of political authority in the European Union to the historical experience of nation-states. Dr. McNamara previously taught at Princeton University, has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a German Marshall Fund Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, and a Visiting Professor at Sciences Po (Paris).

Contributors:

Sophie Meunier is a Research Scholar in Public and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Kathleen McNamara is an Associate Professor of Government and in the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Andrew Moravcsik is a Professor of Politics and the Director of the European Union Program, Princeton University
R. Daniel Kelemen is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
Dorothee Heisenberg is the S. Richard Hirsch Associate Professor of European Studies, Johns Hopkins University School for Advanced International Studies
Karen J. Alter is an Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
David Steinberg is a Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, Northwestern University
Milada Anna Vachudova is an Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abraham Newman is an Assistant Professor at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service and a Member of the BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University
Elliot Posner is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
Orfeo Fioretos is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, Temple University
Tim Büthe is an Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and a Faculty Associate, Center for European Studies, Duke University
Amy Verdun is a Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair at the
University of Victoria, Canada
Berthold Rittberger is a Junior Professor in Comparative Politics, Kaiserslautern University of Technology
Frank Schimmelfennig is a Professor of European Politics at ETH Zurich.
Willem Maas is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, Glendon College, York University
Ailish Johnson works in the Privy Council Office, Government of Canada, and is a Sessional Lecturer at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University
Roy H. Ginsberg is a Professor of Government, Skidmore College
Michael E. Smith is a Reader, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews
John Peterson is a Professor of International Politics, University of Edinburgh
Alasdair R. Young is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Glasgow
Mary Farrell is a Senior Research Fellow, CERI, Sciences-Po