Review Article: The ‘Governance Turn’ in EU Studies*

Kohler‐Koch, Beate; Rittberger, Berthold

doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2006.00642.x

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“…The political institutions and policy making at the EU have been studied through numerous governance lenses, including multilevel governance [7], network governance [8], informal governance [9], and innovative governance [10]. Despite these many theoretical perspectives on EU governance, proponents of experimentalist governance [11] claim that EU governance is not unique and its experimentalist character is not captured by any of the previous frameworks.…”

Section: Experimentalist Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Experimentalist Governance to Foster Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region: A Focus on the Turku Process

Jetoo

2018

Sustainability

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Abstract:The Baltic Sea is one of the most severely polluted water bodies on earth, with stressors resulting from anthropogenic pressures of 85 million inhabitants in nine coastal countries. All are members of the European Union (EU) with the exception of Russia. This exception poses challenges for governing the Sea, as Russia is excluded as a member country from EU Baltic Sea governing policies, such as the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR). This added complexity has led to the emergence of new forms of cooperation to include Russia in the governing process. One such initiative is the Turku process, an initiative by the cities of Turku (Finland), Hamburg (Germany), and St. Petersburg (Russia) to promote cooperation, especially with Russian partners. Since its emergence in 2010, there has been no study of it in the literature. This study aims to bridge this gap by analyzing the history and evolution of the Turku process under the lens of experimentalist governance. It aims to illustrate the experimentalist governance perspective through the Turku process and to present the theoretical foundations of the concept. It does the former through key informant interviews with main actors in the Turku Process and the latter with the help of the literature on experimentalist governance. This study adds to the dialogue on governance in an especially challenging time when the Ukraine crisis has negatively impacted EU-Russia relations.

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Section: Experimentalist Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Experimentalist Governance to Foster Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region: A Focus on the Turku Process

Jetoo

2018

Sustainability

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“…The most common approach is to adapt the 'governance turn' in international relations (Rosenau and Czempiel, 1992), European Studies (Kohler-Koch and Rittberger, 2006) or national politics (Rhodes, 1997) to the problem of security cooperation. Some important recent contributions in this journal have undertaken an effort to take the 'security governance' scholarship to the next analytical level.…”

Section: Security Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Epistemic policy networks in the European Union’s CBRN risk mitigation policy

Zwolski

2014

European Security

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This paper offers insights into an innovative and currently flagship approach of the European Union (EU) to the mitigation of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) risks. Building on its long-time experience in the CBRN field, the EU has incorporated methods familiar to the students of international security governance: it is establishing regional networks of experts and expertise. CBRN Centres of Excellence, as they are officially called, aim to contribute to the security and safety culture in different parts of Africa, the Middle East, South East Asia and South East Europe, in the broadly-construed CBRN area. These regional networks represent a modern form of security cooperation, which can be conceptualized as an epistemic policy networks approach. It offers flexibility to the participating states, which have different incentives to get involved. At the same, however, the paper identifies potential limitations and challenges of epistemic policy networks in this form.

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“…The explosion of work on multilevel and horizontal interaction has made 'network' into a common descriptor of the EU and well suited to understanding the EU's consensual-bargaining policy process ([11], pp. 3-13; [12], pp. 27-49; [13], pp.…”

Section: The Governance Revolutionmentioning

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The European Union and State Building in the Western Balkans

Taylor

2013

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This paper examines the feasibility of network governance in the context of the EU's expansion in the Western Balkans. The EU is formally committed to promoting network governance but the realities of enlargement require the creation of effective states, in other words of the primacy of hierarchy over network. Networks are created in enlargement and reflect the complexities of public policy but these networks do not represent, as yet, a significant shift of power away from the state. Despite a normative preference for network governance, the political reality of enlargement is that the EU seeks the creation of effective hierarchy.

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Review Article: The ‘Governance Turn’ in EU Studies*

Cited by 314 publications

References 51 publications

Experimentalist Governance to Foster Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region: A Focus on the Turku Process

Experimentalist Governance to Foster Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region: A Focus on the Turku Process

Epistemic policy networks in the European Union’s CBRN risk mitigation policy

The European Union and State Building in the Western Balkans

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