Neofunctionalism

Niemann, Arne

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-51791-5_6

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“…Concerning functional Spillover, the explanation for progress in achieving deeper economic integration during the euro crisis management process can be traced back to steps taken to ease functional pressures arising from an incomplete structure established in Maastricht. Some dysfunctions were detected during the euro crisis, which led to significant integrative pressures (Niemann, 2021 desire for integration by maintaining the euro on one hand, and differing preferences on integration requirements for the distribution of crisis adjustment costs, on the other hand. While the negotiations resulted in a cooperative solution to avoid the collapse of the Eurozone and enhance the credibility of member states' commitments, asymmetrical interdependence led to burden-sharing and institutional determination, which often reflected the preferences of Germany and its allies (Bulmer & Joseph, 2016, PP.…”

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Integration/Disintegration Theories and European Union’s crescent of crises: 2008-2020

طوسون

مطاوع²

2023

المجلة العلمیة لکلیة الدراسات الإقتصادیة و العلوم السیاسیة

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This research analyzes the coherence of the European Union through reflecting upon a theoretical framework (integration and disintegration theories) and a practical case study (the Euro crisis, Brexit, and corona virus). The coherence of the European Union produced a massive debate among scholars of political science. Some scholars argued that these crises have deepened the bonds of integration among European member states; others argued that these crises led to disintegration in many aspects of the European Union.The research is divided into three major theses. The first thesis tackles the primary integration theories and the contributions of the political thinkers who are seeking to formulate disintegration theories. The second thesis investigated the development of the integration process within the EU and the crises that faced it from 2008 till 2020. The third thesis is concerned with the application of some integration theories and disintegration assumptions on the crises. The research concluded that there were some disintegrative indicators within the three crises which could contribute to the formulation of a disintegration theory to the European Union.

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Section: ‫الثامن‬ ‫المجلد‬ ‫يناير‬ ‫عشر،‬ ‫الخامس‬ ‫العدد‬ 2023mentioning

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Integration/Disintegration Theories and European Union’s crescent of crises: 2008-2020

طوسون

مطاوع²

2023

المجلة العلمیة لکلیة الدراسات الإقتصادیة و العلوم السیاسیة

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“…As mentioned in the section before, the neofunctionalism framework used in this thesis takes crises and exogenous events into account. Nicoli (2020, 897; see also Niemann 2021;Schmitter 1970) argues that 'neofunctionalism and other related theories, has always postulated that integration advances through crisis'.…”

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The New Role of the European Commission in the EU’s Security and Defence Architecture: entrepreneurship, crisis and integration

Håkansson

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In recent years, the European Union (EU) has strengthened its foreign, security and defence policy in a remarkable way. Several new supranational security and defence initiatives have been launched and implemented, which have given the European Commission a new and central role in European security and defence policy. These swift developments are puzzling, since foreign policy and security and defence policy have long been understood as the ‘last bastions of sovereignty’ for EU member states and have thus been regarded as the least-likely cases for supranational integration. This thesis shows how the Commission has been the central driver behind these changes; it does so by conducting three focused case studies/articles to explore and explain the evolution of a new and enhanced role for the European Commission in EU security and defence cooperation during the period 2014–2023. By researching the establishment of the European Defence Fund, the EU Military Mobility project and the new policies and initiatives developed after Russia’s full-scale war of aggression against Ukraine in 2022, this dissertation analyses new competences for the European Commission within EU security and defence policy. This dissertation conceptually and analytically builds on diverse strands of integration literature, drawing on neofunctionalism, the Commission’s policy entrepreneurship and agenda setting, and crisis pressure to retrace in detail these three important empirical processes. The main contribution of this dissertation is to show how the European Commission’s initiatives and strategies have been indispensable in the strengthening of EU integration within security and defence.

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Conceptualising the Multi-actorness of EU(ropean) Foreign and Security Policy

Rieker,

Giske

2023

The European Union in International Affairs

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This chapter seeks to conceptualise the multi-actor character of what we refer to here as EU(ropean) foreign and security policy. It takes a holistic approach to European foreign and security policy—a policy that covers multiple areas and is carried out by a multitude of actors and institutions. While the framework builds on institutional approaches, such as the literatures on multi-level governance and Differentiated Integration (DI), it adds a new dimension by applying a somewhat broader definition of European integration—a definition that captures more than just the processes that occur within the EU. Applying a broader approach towards European integration allows us to continue to perceive the EU as central to the European integration process, while also allowing for the inclusion of other processes that in some ways, either formally or informally, are linked to the EU. We argue that such a framework better captures the dynamics of today’s increasingly complex EU(ropean) integration process, characterised by opt-outs and opt-ins, formal and informal processes, enhanced cooperation, and various forms of governance led by actors at different levels and with different types of relations to the EU. As we will show in this chapter, a more generic definition of integration helps us develop a framework that captures this complexity and sees clearly the different roles EU institutions play in the various policy areas. The intention is to present a more inclusive conceptual framework that fills two key gaps in the existing literature on European integration in this area.

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Neofunctionalism

Cited by 25 publications

References 41 publications

Integration/Disintegration Theories and European Union’s crescent of crises: 2008-2020

Integration/Disintegration Theories and European Union’s crescent of crises: 2008-2020

The New Role of the European Commission in the EU’s Security and Defence Architecture: entrepreneurship, crisis and integration

Conceptualising the Multi-actorness of EU(ropean) Foreign and Security Policy

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