From Europeanisation to Diffusion: Introduction

Börzel, Tanja A.; Risse‐Kappen, Thomas

doi:10.1080/01402382.2012.631310

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“…There has been a wide array of research under the heading of "neighborhood Europeanization" and external governance, which has predominantly studied the bilateral impact of the EU on domestic developments in neighboring countries (Lavenex and Schimmelfennig 2009;Langbein and Börzel 2013). Despite increased attention to domestic-level and agency-centered explanations, the Europeanization literature in general has been criticized as being EU-centered, top-down, and still too inattentive to domestic forces of change (Börzel and Risse 2012). It is conceivable that, because of the success of enlargement, the EU's role in promoting domestic change has been over-emphasized.…”

Section: The Contested Neighborhood: Empirical Dynamics and Conceptuamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…First, we will place a greater emphasis on the role of domestic actors in neighboring countries. In response to the criticism of being EU-centered and rather oblivious to domestic developments, scholars have embraced the literature on policy transfer and diffusion which also respects more indirect and bottom-up mechanisms of domestic change (Börzel and Risse 2012). As the concept of policy transfer also explicitly places the emphasis on the role of agents (Dolowitz 2000, 3), we favor this approach and consider sectoral changes in NCs as agency-driven instances of policy transfer, defined as "a process in which knowledge about policies, administrative arrangements, institutions, and ideas in one political setting (past or present) is used in the development of policies, administrative arrangements, institutions and ideas in another political setting" (Dolowitz and marsh 2000, 5).…”

Section: The Contested Neighborhood: Empirical Dynamics and Conceptuamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We explore how the instances of sectoral change can be traced back to domestic preferences and to the EU's and Russia's policies. We endeavor to distinguish between formal (legislative) and de facto changes (Börzel and Risse 2012) or -put differently -between rule selection and adoption and actual implementation at the sectoral level (Lavenex and Schimmelfennig 2009).…”

Section: Levels Of Change: the Disconnect Between Sectoral Reform Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond geopolitics: exploring the impact of the EU and Russia in the “contested neighborhood”

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Wolczuk

2016

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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While the geopolitical rivalry between the European Union (EU) and Russia over their common neighborhood has increasingly attracted academic and public attention, relatively little is known of its actual influence on domestic institutions and policies. This special issue aims to address this deficit by investigating the joint impact of the EU and Russia on the domestic dynamics of sectoral reform in neighboring countries (NCs) -a key declared goal of the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) -in the areas of trade, natural resources, and migration and mobility. It examines the nature of the instruments deployed by the EU and Russia to change domestic reform processes and their impact on domestic actors in the post-Soviet space. This introductory article outlines the key research questions to which answers have been sought by experts in their respective fields and summarizes their key empirical findings in the context of broader conceptual debates. Overall, the contributions to this special issue find a strong disconnect between participation in the EU's or Russia's macro-frameworks for regional integration and domestic sectoral reforms. We show that despite the increasing external competition over the post-Soviet space, domestic actors remain the key agents to account for the pattern of change in the contested neighborhood.

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“…However, this article's analysis of the composition of networks suggest that they play a role in developing new forms of interaction that affect the interests and identities of participants and prompt institutional logics of appropriateness that are more social in content. The identification of the scope for social and communicative logics to supplement instrumental logics is developed by Börzel and Risse (2012) in their assessment of the EU's transformative effects in which they suggest an important role in constituting the identities and preferences of actors arising are regular interactions with peers, as well communicative logics arising from encounters with differing approaches and the need to justify these to its various components.…”

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“…We do so by exploring the debate about the EU's 'transformative' effects on new and prospective member states (Börzel and Risse 2012). The article then develops its empirical analysis by analysing the dynamics of co-operation in the three case countries to demonstrate the conditions under which inter-state co-operation occurs in the shadow of 'fortress Europe' and its effects, particularly on the executive branch of government.…”

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In the shadow of fortress Europe? Impacts of European migration governance on Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia

Geddes

Taylor

2015

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This article analyses European integration's effects on migration and border security governance in Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia in the context of 'governed interdependence'. We show how transgovernmental networks comprising national and EU actors, plus a range of other participants, blur the distinction between the domestic and international to enable interactions between domestic and international policy elites that transmit EU priorities into national policy. Governments are shown to be 'willing pupils' and 'policy takers', adapting to EU policy as a pre-condition for membership. This strengthened rather than weakened central state actors, particularly interior ministries. Thus, in a quintessentially 'national' policy area, there has been a re-scaling and re-constitution of migration and border security policy. To support this analysis, social network analysis is used to outline the composition of governance networks and analyse interactions and power relations therein. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Norm collisions in European Union sectoral governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: How the European Commission reconfigures norms in crises

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Stockmann

2023

Contemporary European Politics

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This article argues that the COVID‐19 pandemic has incited the collision of norms in sectoral European Union (EU) governance and provided an open juncture for the European Commission to engage in norm reconfiguration. Herewith, the paper expands the conceptual scope of EU‐related norm research, which by focussing on the diffusion of norms within and beyond the EU has largely omitted dynamic perspectives on norms so far. We combine International Relations norm research with EU governance literature to scrutinise the normative underpinnings of the immediate crisis response within Commission sectoral strategies and working programs. Empirically, the paper focuses on the higher education and transport sectors, which have been particularly impacted by the COVID‐19 crisis and targeted by the EU crisis response. The interpretative‐qualitative analysis uncovers COVID‐19‐related collisions within the ideational constellation of EU governance and shows that the European Commission has engaged in different reconfiguration practices, potentially altering the norm constellation in the investigated sectoral governance areas.

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From Europeanisation to Diffusion: Introduction

Cited by 430 publications

References 33 publications

Beyond geopolitics: exploring the impact of the EU and Russia in the “contested neighborhood”

Beyond geopolitics: exploring the impact of the EU and Russia in the “contested neighborhood”

In the shadow of fortress Europe? Impacts of European migration governance on Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia

Norm collisions in European Union sectoral governance during the COVID‐19 pandemic: How the European Commission reconfigures norms in crises

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