The European Union & Democratization: Reluctant States (Europe and the Nation State)

The European Union & Democratization : Reluctant States

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Checkout Your Cart Price. Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Theories of European Integration Ben Rosamond. The Bookshelf application offers access: This item is a special order that could take a long time to obtain. Description Details Customer Reviews The European Union has been a key actor in promoting democratization and providing assistance to encourage political change. This book assesses the EU's contribution to democratization by looking at the failures and states that offered resistance to EU pressure to reform, aiming to understand how the EU overcame or failed to overcome the numerous barriers blocking democratic progress.

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It may seem strange to us now, after a surge of anti-EU politics, that only 24 years ago, as the Maastricht Treaty was signed in , hardly any serious politician doubted what the future of the EU would look like: How different the outlook looks in Yet, she argued, if we look back, we see that only the market has become truly integrated, whereas the people have not. The problem is twofold. Firstly, the common market covers a large number of countries, but in times of crisis there is no overarching institution that truly has the authority to get this market back under control.

Secondly, because nation states have retained central importance within the EU, people by default fall back on this model in times of crisis.

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Individual member states desperately cling to their own authority, but fail to implement coherent policies when it comes to the entire market. The story is familiar: Showing graphs of the GDP distribution across Europe, a different picture emerges: In November the Norwegian electorate rejected membership of the European Union.

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Professor Archer examines the background to this decision both in terms of an expression of interests within Norway and in terms of national feeling. He then investigates the subsequent interaction between Norway Nergis Canefe, Mehmet Ugur April 22, This book examines the important issue of Turkey's relationship with Europe.

The authors uniquely present the Turkish view of integration within the broad context of the debates on Europeanisation and sovereignty, but with a specific focus on the internal debates and issues in Turkey itself. Passas December 18, The contributors collected here discuss the patterns of continuity and change, success and failure observed in seven policy areas - environment, social regulation, regional policy, the single market, agriculture, EMU and foreign policy - in order to investigate how policy formulated and implemented The European Union has been a key actor in promoting democratization and providing assistance to encourage political change.

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This book assesses the EU's contribution to democratization by looking at the failures and states that offered resistance to EU pressure to reform, aiming to understand how