Preferences and Power in the European Community: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Approach

Moravcsik, Andrew

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“…6 While the main debate has revolved around the relations between states and global capital, a parallel debate has concentrated on the altered position of the state in relation to competing political authorities, in particular international organizations. In the debate regarding the relations between competing political authorities, most scholars have maintained a skeptical view, relying on the neo-realist contention that international organizations do not and cannot impinge upon state sovereignty (Weiss 1999: 70-71;Moravscik 1993). Others, however, have suggested that the growth of supranational bodies diminished the decision-making abilities of member states (Slaughter 1997;Pierson and Leibfried 1995;Ross 1995;Held et al 1999).…”

Section: Institutions and State Powermentioning

confidence: 95%

The institutional project of neo-liberal globalism: The case of the WTO

Chorev

2005

Theor Soc

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This article examines the impact of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on domestic trade policies and practices. It shows that protectionist measures, including those practiced by the United States, have been effectively challenged, and consequently restricted, due to the WTO strengthened dispute settlement procedures. I show that the new procedures affected the substantive policy outcomes by changing the political influence of competing actors. Specifically, I identify four transformations affecting the political influence of participants: the re-scaling of political authority, the judicialization of inter-state relations, the institutionalization of the international organization, and the structural internationalization of the state. Based on this case, the article offers a view of globalization as an institutional project. This view emphasizes the political dimension of the process of globalization; it suggests that this project was facilitated by transforming the institutional arrangements in place; and it identifies the contradictions inherent in it both to U.S. hegemony and to the globalization project itself.

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Section: Institutions and State Powermentioning

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The institutional project of neo-liberal globalism: The case of the WTO

Chorev

2005

Theor Soc

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“…The other attempt is to conceive a security community analogous to the Council for Security Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) (now the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)), upholding the basic logic of intergovernmentalism (Moravscik 1993). The tendency to draw on the European experience as a long-term reference point in this broader sense even predates the emergence of the North Korean nuclear crisis.…”

Section: The Eu: Model Setter or Norm Exportermentioning

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The EU, regional cooperation, and the North Korean nuclear crisis

Lee

2016

Asia Eur J

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North Korea poses a security threat by developing nuclear weapons. To address this source of regional insecurity, institutionalized frameworks of regional cooperation have been employed. Despite its usefulness as an alternative route to deal with the North Korean case, controversies still remain in terms of its relevance and effectiveness. Even so, the regional integration, consistently promoted by the EU as an integral part of its Asian policy, still requires systematic evaluation. This paper thus examines how and under which conditions regional integration can make a contribution to the transformation of the current crisis. In answering this question, it concludes that a long-term model-setting effect is hard to disregard, in spite of the mixed view of substantial compulsory and social learning effects. The underlying reasons are the ontological-seeking activities of North Korea, along with regional and global actors' reservations about the contributions of the EU as a key security provider in Asian affairs and in its promotion of the regional integration scheme.

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“…This argument is not groundless at all, when the argument that the CFSP of the Union is considered intergovernmental in nature is considered. That is, the nature of the EU's foreign policy-making and decisionmaking regime has generally been construed as a power-based regime based upon a straightforward rationalist calculation (Moravcsik 1993). EU foreign policy can therefore be conceived of as the expression of lowest common denominator politics which challenges no state's core foreign policy interests.…”

Section: A Conventional View Of Enlargement and The Cfspmentioning

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The EU’s Korea relationship: enlargement effects

Lee

2007

AEJ

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As the EU was expanding in 2004, a phase of new development between the EU and North Korea could have been expected. However, it was argued that the EU's position towards North Korea is likely to remain unchanged. Most of the existing studies ascribed the reactive attitude of the EU to the distinctiveness of the recent enlargement. The accession of a large number of new members, which are considered to have diverse foreign policy interests and perception, is likely to add up to the already overwhelming number of problems in the governance of the EU. Thus, the EU's policy towards North Korea would rather concentrate on a soft security approach. However, this paper contends that the existing explanation is not exhaustive, but that the implications relating to the conception of smallness, which is relevant to most of the new member states, should be included in the parameters of analysis in order to generate a more comprehensive and balanced view where the future relationship between the EU and North Korea is concerned.

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Preferences and Power in the European Community: A Liberal Intergovernmentalist Approach

Cited by 200 publications

References 28 publications

The institutional project of neo-liberal globalism: The case of the WTO

The institutional project of neo-liberal globalism: The case of the WTO

The EU, regional cooperation, and the North Korean nuclear crisis

The EU’s Korea relationship: enlargement effects

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