Pub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2259647
Dafne Carletti, Sara Tonsy
ABSTRACTKnowledge production is one of the most important elements of human interaction. It shapes identities, determines policies, and reflects the understanding of borders and geographies. For instance, how Europe and the MENA region perceive one another depends largely on who creates the discourse, and under which disciplines these discourses are elaborated. For centuries, however, discourse creation has been regulated by neoliberal and patriarchal interests. Such (super-)structures frame how these regions are represented, leading to colonial assumptions, biased knowledge and objectifying research. We argue that knowledge of Europe and the MENA, its creation and diffusion should be critical and horizontal practices, moving towards deterritorialization and decolonisation. Not to succumb to a ‘regional’ hierarchy of global North/South, we need to reflect on the positioning of researchers, acknowledging the liminality of identities, to appreciate the dynamic nature of boundaries, and to revisit various elements of knowledge production as language, freedom of movement, and funding. Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2258442
Alice Cavalieri, Johannes Karremans
The policy-responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have fuelled expectations about potential paradigmatic change in European Economic Governance (EEG). Building on existing scholarship on policy paradigms, we develop testable expectations about the steps preceding paradigmatic change, which we explore on the basis of three types of data. First, we show how public spending in three key Eurozone countries between 2008 and 2021 follows predicted patterns of the punctuated equilibrium model. Second, we show that governments’ justifications for their annual budgets reflect a gradual change in policy-ideas between 2009 and 2020, following the expected three orders of change. Third, we show how this gradual change is also present in the European Country-Specific Recommendations and in the bureaucratic logics within the European Commission. Our findings reconcile three strands of scholarship on policy change and have implications for our understanding of the European integration process and for future research on economic policy-making within EEG.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2255729
Alex MacKenzie
This article investigates member state influence on the making of EU counter-terrorism policy. Crucially, member states have not been viewed as major drivers of change in EU counter-terrorism, despite their experience of attacks, policy expertise, and the domestic salience of the issue. To address this gap, I show how member states acted as policy entrepreneurs during EU Passenger Name Records (EU-PNR), on which final agreement was reached in 2016. Specifically, I demonstrate that the UK Home Office was a prominent, long-term actor in the development of the EU’s counter-terrorism policy and worked with the Commission to build an alliance in favour of EU-PNR. However, it was only with the ‘window of opportunity’ presented by jihadi terrorist attacks between 2015 and 2016 that members of the French government were finally able to pressure critical elements of the European Parliament into agreement.
{"title":"Conspicuous by their absence? The member states in European Union counter-terrorism","authors":"Alex MacKenzie","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2255729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2255729","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates member state influence on the making of EU counter-terrorism policy. Crucially, member states have not been viewed as major drivers of change in EU counter-terrorism, despite their experience of attacks, policy expertise, and the domestic salience of the issue. To address this gap, I show how member states acted as policy entrepreneurs during EU Passenger Name Records (EU-PNR), on which final agreement was reached in 2016. Specifically, I demonstrate that the UK Home Office was a prominent, long-term actor in the development of the EU’s counter-terrorism policy and worked with the Commission to build an alliance in favour of EU-PNR. However, it was only with the ‘window of opportunity’ presented by jihadi terrorist attacks between 2015 and 2016 that members of the French government were finally able to pressure critical elements of the European Parliament into agreement.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981191","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2252575
Tim Bale, Karl Pike
{"title":"Hopes will be dashed: Brexit and the ‘Merkel myth’","authors":"Tim Bale, Karl Pike","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2252575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2252575","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48878015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-31DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2252574
Spyros Blavoukos, Giorgio Oikonomou
{"title":"Newcomers in EU foreign policy: the Committee of the Regions as an EU para-diplomatic actor","authors":"Spyros Blavoukos, Giorgio Oikonomou","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2252574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2252574","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59768509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2248708
E. Fanoulis
{"title":"Agonistic reflections on the legitimacy of EU referenda","authors":"E. Fanoulis","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2248708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2248708","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46398981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-10DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2243378
D. Hodson, D. Howarth
{"title":"The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility: An Exceptional Borrowing Instrument?","authors":"D. Hodson, D. Howarth","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2243378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2243378","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46771155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2243123
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2243123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2243123","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"843 - 844"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47333090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-08DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2239998
Calle Håkansson
{"title":"The Ukraine war and the emergence of the European commission as a geopolitical actor","authors":"Calle Håkansson","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2239998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2239998","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47694034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2023.2243539
Sinem Bal
ABSTRACT Instead of acting consistently with international law and its own refugee law, the EU has adopted an ambivalent stance over refugee arrivals to Europe. Member states’ increasing anxiety led the EU to tighten border controls and outsource its humanitarian responsibilities by agreeing on a statement with Turkey to prevent refugees from entering the EU irregularly. This paper focuses on the human rights breaches and contradictions of the EU-Turkey Statement by specifically investigating the one-in-one-out mechanism and the argument that Turkey is safe country. It is argued that the Statement has turned the refugee issue into the subject of the European market because the political architecture of EU human rights norms has historically been part of the neoliberal hegemony. Hence, the refugee case reveals how inadequately produced norms inside Europe’s borders reproduce inequalities and cause mismatches between the EU’s claimed role as rights promoter and its practical inadequacies and market-based pragmatism.
{"title":"Reappraising the EU-Turkey Refugee Statement within the Human Rights and Neoliberalism Nexus","authors":"Sinem Bal","doi":"10.1080/07036337.2023.2243539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07036337.2023.2243539","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Instead of acting consistently with international law and its own refugee law, the EU has adopted an ambivalent stance over refugee arrivals to Europe. Member states’ increasing anxiety led the EU to tighten border controls and outsource its humanitarian responsibilities by agreeing on a statement with Turkey to prevent refugees from entering the EU irregularly. This paper focuses on the human rights breaches and contradictions of the EU-Turkey Statement by specifically investigating the one-in-one-out mechanism and the argument that Turkey is safe country. It is argued that the Statement has turned the refugee issue into the subject of the European market because the political architecture of EU human rights norms has historically been part of the neoliberal hegemony. Hence, the refugee case reveals how inadequately produced norms inside Europe’s borders reproduce inequalities and cause mismatches between the EU’s claimed role as rights promoter and its practical inadequacies and market-based pragmatism.","PeriodicalId":47516,"journal":{"name":"Journal of European Integration","volume":"45 1","pages":"1035 - 1053"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46788483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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