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Recovering from the constitutional failure: An analysis of the EU reflection period
(2008)
After the rejection of the European Union’s (EU) Constitutional Treaty in Spring 2005 by both France and the Netherlands, the heads of state and government called for a “reflection period” to provide opportunities to resolve ...
The direct election of the Commission president: A presidential approach to democratising the European Union
(2009)
It has become common knowledge by now that the European Union does not have it particularly easy when it comes to democracy. A commensurately difficult task for political science is to analyse the EU in conventional ......
Globalization, regional integration and the EU: pleadings for a broader perspective
(2006)
The following chapter will analyze globalization and regional integration as an inter-dependant process of a challenge and its response. Based on this, the analysis will discuss the EU’s role in this process. The high ...
Escaping the legitimacy accountability trap?: perspectives of parliamentary participation in European security and defence policy
(2006)
Since the early 1980s foreign and security policy has attracted growing attention at the European level. To an increasing extent European summits and Intergovernmental Conferences have dealt with foreign affairs and provided ...
The Euro-Mediterranean space as an imagined (geo-)political, economic and cultural entity
(2006)
The anger of Islamic societies world-wide that arose from the publication of caricatures featuring Prophet Muhammad has tempted various editors and scholars alike to declare the current situation as further evidence of ...