Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration

D. Beach, C. Mazzucelli, D. Beach, C. Mazzucelli

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2006
• Print ISBN: 9781403998200
• eBook ISBN: 9780230599642
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Comparative Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the major treaty reforms over the past two decades, to consider whether the path from the Single European Act in 1985 to the present Constitutional Treaty has been pushed by the Franco-German tandem, or has been the result of leadership provided the Commission or smaller member states.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on the Contributors
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The EU Presidency: France in the 2000 IGC
• 3 Drawing Lessons in the Chair: Assessing the Dutch Presidency’s Impact during the Maastricht and Amsterdam Conferences
• 4 The EU Presidency – Comparing the Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003–04 Intergovernmental Conference
• 5 Oiling the Wheels of Compromise: The Council Secretariat in the 1996–97 and 2003–4 IGCs
• 6 Leader or Bystander? The European Commission and EU Treaty Reform
• 7 A Formal Outsider Becomes an Effective Player: The European Parliament in the Negotiation of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Constitutional Treaty
• 8 Big versus Small: Shared Leadership in the EU and Power Politics in the Convention
• 9 Cooperative Hegemon, Missing Engine or Improbable Core? Explaining French–German Influence in European Treaty Reform
• 10 Britain and the European Union: A Laggard Leader?
• 11 The Constitutional Treaty and Poland – A New Laggard in the EU?
• 12 Is There Anyone in Charge? Leadership in EU Constitutional Negotiations
• 13 Conclusions
• References
• Index