Embedded Politics, Growing Informalization? How NATO and the EU Transform Provision of External Security

“…The co-occurrence of new transparency policies and informalisation has been observed within the Council (Cross, 2013(Cross, , 2014Elsig, 2010;Hillebrandt, Curtin, & Meijer, 2014;Lempp & Altenschmidt, 2008;Lewis, 2010;Novak, 2014;Stasavage, 2006), in legislative decisionmaking with the increasing popularity of trialogues (Eibauer, 2012;Häge & Kaeding, 2007;Häge & Naurin, 2013;Heremans, 2011;Hillebrandt et al, 2014;Naurin & Rasmussen, 2011;Reh, Héritier, Bressanelli, & Koop, 2011), and in other international organisations (Daase, 2009;Mayer, 2011;Reh et al, 2011).…”

Section: A Vicious Circle Of Transparency and Informalisationmentioning

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“…This section contains the causal mechanism explaining how increased transparency for the TTIP negotiations has resulted in an informalisation of Parliament-Commission interaction (Figure 1). This approach allows for a fine-tuned analysis of the complex causal processes at work in informal environments (Mayer, 2011). 3 I will also set out exactly which observable manifestations I expect to find if the mechanism is present in the case (Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4).…”

Section: A Process-tracing Mechanism Of Transaction Costsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Opening up by closing off: how increased transparency triggers informalisation in EU decision-making

Coremans

2019

Journal of European Public Policy

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With transparency for EU trade negotiations becoming a high-profile topic this past decade, its connection with EU inter-institutional politics has become more consequential. In response to the changed role of the European Parliament and the need to better inform the public debate, the European Commission has significantly reformed its transparency policy for trade negotiations. At the same time however, an institutional process of informalisation at the EU level has enfolded. This study uses process-tracing methodology to determine how the increased transparency caused this informalisation in the case of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. It thereby seeks to uncover a widely-occurring yet surprisingly underexplored process of institutional change that follows from increased transparency. Contrary to earlier accounts of correlations between transparency and informalisation, the author finds that both concepts are not necessarily contradictory. Instead, informality can in fact contribute to transparency goals and help legitimise decision-making.

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“…EU-NATO cooperation, despite formal political agreements such as the Berlin Plus arrangement, has been difficult to realise (Ojanen 2006, Duke 2008, Smith 2011, Mayer 2011, Graeger and Haugevik 2011, Gebhard and Smith 2015, Graeger 2016. Nevertheless, new EU-NATO informal cooperation practices arise on a regular basis in ATM.…”

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The Single European Sky: a window of opportunity for EU–NATO relations

Lavallée

2017

European Security

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To cope with increasing air traffic congestion, the European Union launched the Single European Sky in the early 2000s, intending to reform the European airspace which, at that time, was still fragmented by national frontiers. However, this has not been a purely civilian task, as military air transport is likewise affected. In fact, NATO has been concerned by the challenges facing the European Air Traffic Management environment due to the growing commercial aviation since its early days. For this, the European Defence Agency has been tasked to coordinate military views, thus opening a window of opportunity for EU-NATO relations. Both organisations promoting close coordination between the users of civilian and military airspace have built direct contact with each other. While examining how NATO and the EU are shaping their informal cooperation in this sector, the article considers the airspace community of users as a configuration of relations where inevitable inter-and intrainstitutional power play is involved to reform the European airspace.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Embedded Politics, Growing Informalization? How NATO and the EU Transform Provision of External Security

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Opening up by closing off: how increased transparency triggers informalisation in EU decision-making

The Single European Sky: a window of opportunity for EU–NATO relations

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