European Union constitutional treaty negotiations are very complex, unpredictable and messy affairs with high bargaining (transaction) costs. Leadership is often necessary in order for the parties to find and agree upon a mutually acceptable outcome. Various types of leadership are demanded in different types of circumstances, and who provides leadership affects the shape of the final outcome. The use of a common framework throughout the volume allows the volume to provide some tentative answers to the following empirical questions: which actors have driven the European integration process in the last two decades?; and, more importantly, what factors allowed specific actors to provide leadership in a given context? These conclusions provide a major step forward in the literature on the history-making bargains in the EU, enabling us to answer with more confidence the question of which actors have guided the 'big bangs' in the European integration process in the past two decades, and why.
'Derek Beach and Colette Mazzucelli's book clarifies one of the least understood phenomena in European policymaking: leadership. Intellectual laziness has allowed us to believe that leadership in European policymaking is derived from the charisma of statesmen like de Gaulle, Adenauer, Kohl, Mitterrand and Delors. This book demonstrates that leadership has structural causes and must be seen in context. In fact, leadership is all about creating consensus under conditions of bounded rationality. Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration is an important step forward in our understanding of the European Union.' - Stefan Collignon, Political Economist, London School of Economics and Harvard University
Foreword; C.Westendorp
Preface; E.Suleiman
Introduction; D. Beach & C. Mazzucelli
The EU Presidency: France in the 2000 IGC; J.Tallberg
Drawing Lessons in the Chair: Assessing the Dutch Presidency's Impact during the Maastricht and Amsterdam Conferences; C.Mazzucelli
The EU Presidency: Comparing the Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003-04 Intergovernmental Conference; B.Crum
Oiling the Wheels of Compromise: The Council Secretariat in the 1996-97 and the 2003-04 IGCs; D.Beach
Leader or Bystander?: The European Commission and EU Treaty Reform; H.Kassim & D.G.Dimitrakopoulos
A Formal Outsider Becomes an Effective Player: The European Parliament in the Negotiation of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Constitutional Treaty; A.Maurer
Big versus Small: Shared Leadership in the EU and Power Politics in the Convention; S.Bunse, P.Magnette & K.NicolaIdis
Cooperative Hegemon, Missing Engine or Improbable Core? Explaining French-German Influence in European Treaty Reform; C.Mazzucelli, U.Guérot & A.Metz
Britain and the European Union: A Laggard Leader?; A.Blair
The Constitutional Treaty and Poland: A New Laggard in the EU?; K.Bobinski
Is There Anyone in Charge? Leadership in EU Constitutional Negotiations; R.Dehousse & F.Deloche-Gaudez
Conclusions; D. Beach & C. Mazzucelli
DEREK BEACH is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and has been a visiting scholar at SAIS, Johns Hopkins in Washington DC. He has recently published articles on the Council Secretariat and an article explaining governmental compliance with EU law, and has published two books, The Dynamics of European Integration: Why and When EU Institutions Matter (2005) and Between Law and Politics (2001), along with several chapters in edited volumes.
COLETTE MAZZUCELLI is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York. She conducts research in Paris at the Centre for European Studies, Sciences Po, and the German Historical Institute. She has taught on graduate faculty at New York University's Center for Global Affairs. As a speaker for the United States Information Service, she toured France, Germany and Poland. A Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in the Foreign Office, she assisted with the ratification of the Treaty on European Union in Germany.
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European Union constitutional treaty negotiations are very complex, unpredictable and messy affairs with high bargaining (transaction) costs. Leadership is often necessary in order for the parties to find and agree upon a mutually acceptable outcome. Various types of leadership are demanded in different types of circumstances, and who provides leadership affects the shape of the final outcome. The use of a common framework throughout the volume allows the volume to provide some tentative answers to the following empirical questions: which actors have driven the European integration process in the last two decades?; and, more importantly, what factors allowed specific actors to provide leadership in a given context? These conclusions provide a major step forward in the literature on the history-making bargains in the EU, enabling us to answer with more confidence the question of which actors have guided the 'big bangs' in the European integration process in the past two decades, and why.
Reviews
'Derek Beach and Colette Mazzucelli's book clarifies one of the least understood phenomena in European policymaking: leadership. Intellectual laziness has allowed us to believe that leadership in European policymaking is derived from the charisma of statesmen like de Gaulle, Adenauer, Kohl, Mitterrand and Delors. This book demonstrates that leadership has structural causes and must be seen in context. In fact, leadership is all about creating consensus under conditions of bounded rationality. Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration is an important step forward in our understanding of the European Union.' - Stefan Collignon, Political Economist, London School of Economics and Harvard University
Contents
Foreword; C.Westendorp
Preface; E.Suleiman
Introduction; D. Beach & C. Mazzucelli
The EU Presidency: France in the 2000 IGC; J.Tallberg
Drawing Lessons in the Chair: Assessing the Dutch Presidency's Impact during the Maastricht and Amsterdam Conferences; C.Mazzucelli
The EU Presidency: Comparing the Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003-04 Intergovernmental Conference; B.Crum
Oiling the Wheels of Compromise: The Council Secretariat in the 1996-97 and the 2003-04 IGCs; D.Beach
Leader or Bystander?: The European Commission and EU Treaty Reform; H.Kassim & D.G.Dimitrakopoulos
A Formal Outsider Becomes an Effective Player: The European Parliament in the Negotiation of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Constitutional Treaty; A.Maurer
Big versus Small: Shared Leadership in the EU and Power Politics in the Convention; S.Bunse, P.Magnette & K.NicolaIdis
Cooperative Hegemon, Missing Engine or Improbable Core? Explaining French-German Influence in European Treaty Reform; C.Mazzucelli, U.Guérot & A.Metz
Britain and the European Union: A Laggard Leader?; A.Blair
The Constitutional Treaty and Poland: A New Laggard in the EU?; K.Bobinski
Is There Anyone in Charge? Leadership in EU Constitutional Negotiations; R.Dehousse & F.Deloche-Gaudez
Conclusions; D. Beach & C. Mazzucelli
Authors
DEREK BEACH is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and has been a visiting scholar at SAIS, Johns Hopkins in Washington DC. He has recently published articles on the Council Secretariat and an article explaining governmental compliance with EU law, and has published two books, The Dynamics of European Integration: Why and When EU Institutions Matter (2005) and Between Law and Politics (2001), along with several chapters in edited volumes.
COLETTE MAZZUCELLI is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Political Science at Molloy College, Rockville Centre, New York. She conducts research in Paris at the Centre for European Studies, Sciences Po, and the German Historical Institute. She has taught on graduate faculty at New York University's Center for Global Affairs. As a speaker for the United States Information Service, she toured France, Germany and Poland. A Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in the Foreign Office, she assisted with the ratification of the Treaty on European Union in Germany.
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