the european union by ben rosamond
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Plan of this session 13.15-14.00 – Lecture
The EU: a very brief introduction
Why the EU matters for students of political science
Two illustrations of why the EU matters
14.00-14.20 – Q&A
1. The European Union: a very brief introduction(a) A story of post-war institution building in Europe
Treaty of Paris (1951) – ECSC Treaties of Rome (1957) –
Euratom, EEC Merger Treaty (1965) –
European Communities Single European Act (1986) Treaty of European Union
(1992) – EU Treaty of Amsterdam (1997) Treaty of Nice (2001) Treaty of Lisbon (2009)= Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)
A set of European-level institutions
Economic integration
Common policies
A body of supranational law
Market integration
Monetary union (17 member
states)
(b) An enlarging
project
1951
1973
1981/1986
1995
2004
2007
2013
????
(c) A gradual drift of policy competence from national to supranational level?
See Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Articles 2-6 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:C:2008:115:0047:0199:EN:PDF
2. Why does the EU matter for student of political science?
Comparative politics
International relations
Political theory
Public administration
The transformation of European international politics Model for the governance of complex interdependence? An actor in the international system … but not a state
A political system … but what kind? Major source of external input into national pol systems
A kind of federal polity? A type of state-building?
A site for re-thinking classic political theory concepts such as citizenship, democracy, legitimacy etc.
A cosmopolitan or a communitarian project? Political identity beyond the nation-state?
A major site of regulation Governance without government?
‘Multi-level governance’?
National citizenship
British (EU citizen); lives in
Sweden; works in Denmark
Political/civic ‘citizenship’
Fiscal ‘citizenship’
TaxationBenefits
European electionsNational
elections
A case of free movement/EU
citizenship … but still three currencies in my
wallet!
3. Case #1: the EU and citizenship
3. Case #2: what kind of ‘power’ is the EU in world politics?
The standard debate: is the EU/can the EU be A military power?
Some foreign policy security competence, but probably not
An economic power? (or ‘civilian power/market power)
External projection of the single market
EU is a major source of econ. regulation and international economic law
A ‘normative power’? External projection of EU’s core
principles … e.g. human rights, democracy, rule
of law etc. Or three varieties of normative
power? Three types of liberalism?The EU as
European peace project
The EU as ’regulatory
state’
The EU as European citizenship
project
cosmopol-itan duty
markets
peace
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