... Södersten B Wahlbäck K Fäldin Thorbjorn neoliberalism Blyth M ‘cognitive frames’ Finnemore M Meidner Rudolph Rehn Gösta Sikkink K Skandia company social constructivism Berger P L Lawler P Luckmann T myths Ruth A norms Bildt Post-Cold War European integration Security...

...This chapter investigates the differential attitudes and perspectives of European integration on the parliamentary Labour right, and the fault lines and divisions contained therein. Labour Party divisions over Europe were the antithesis of contemporary debates over defence. Hugh Gaitskell's verdict...

...This chapter summarises the core observations of the book and their meaning in reference to the broader current theoretical debates on Europeanisation, Communitarisation, and the European integration processes. It compares the conclusions of the book to those of similar studies in other policy...

...As two of the longest-serving prime ministers in Europe, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern had a profound impact on both the national and European stage. Their decade in power coincided with perhaps one of the most tumultuous periods of European integration, with no less than two successful rounds...

.... The chapter proposes five broad categories of independent variables: national change agents, domestic administrative opportunity structures, domestic political opportunity structures, technological change, and European integration. institutionalism network analysis lobbying networking strategic learning...

...This chapter takes a look at EU theorising and some methodological issues surrounding the study of the regional process. It studies various theoretical approaches to European integration that were developed during the formative years of the process and up to the late 1970s, and also addresses...

... meaning and function means that discourse analysis has particular value in the study of nationalism and political change. The chapter then provides an overview of other studies in the areas of nationalism and European integration which have used discourse theory and analysis, focusing on the case...

...This introductory chapter analyses the case of Scottish devolution. It identifies the three main reasons why Scotland serves as an ideal test case for the general hypothesis that European integration raises demand for self-government at the sub-state level. It then presents a brief overview...

...European integration has long been one of the most controversial and divisive issues in British Conservative politics. It caused the deepest divisions in the party since the Corn Laws, contributing to Thatcher's downfall and undermining the government of her successor. This chapter traces how...

...This chapter presents a case study on the role of the European Union (EU) in the conflict resolution of Northern Ireland. It describes the incremental nature of establishing a role for European integration in the conflict resolution process through policy tools, resources and political...

... membership of the Community to be one of its greatest achievements in office. The imperatives imposed by European integration underpinned the PSOE's policies throughout its entire period in government. Moreover, given that ‘Europeanisation’ became almost interchangeable with the term ‘modernisation...

...The purpose of this chapter is to analyse the political economy of European integration and to examine the EU’s competence within employment and social policy. It argues that the EU’s involvement in social policy and labour can best be understood as a European social dimension (ESD...

... decisions in Brussels. This chapter explores the European and foreign policy of the Länder in Germany. It first considers European integration as a challenge to the Länder, early efforts to protect Länder rights in European integration...

.... ( 2002 ) Transnational Capital and the Struggle Over European Integration . London and New York: Routledge. 10.4324/9780203166802 Balassa, B. ( 1962 ) The Theory of Economic Integration . London: Allen & Unwin. Barry, A. ( 1993 ) ‘ The European...

...This chapter discusses the state of European social democracy in the aftermath of the global financial crisis and ongoing European sovereign debt crisis. The chapter analyses how the process of European integration has weakened the position of social democratic parties in challenging the neoliberal...

...This chapter draws on the work on Poulantzas to argue that European social democracy is in crisis because European Integration since the 1980s has been articulated within a relationship of structural subordination to US-led financial capital, to which European capital has itself increasingly...

... ) ‘ The Struggle over EU Enlargement: A Historical Materialist Analysis of European Integration ’, Journal of European Public Policy , Vol. 9, 575–98. 10.1080/13501760210152448 Bieler, A. ( 2006 ) The Struggle for a Social Europe: Trade Unions and EMU in Times of Global...

...This chapter identifies several conclusions that can be drawn from the present research. This includes the observation that European integration is important for Basque selfgovernment. It then considers a series of research questions that investigate the impact of European integration on patterns...

...This introductory chapter explains the objective of this volume, which is to explore the peace and conflict resolution role of European integration by testing its somewhat vague, albeit well-established, macro-political rationale of a peace project in the practical settings of conflicts...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the role of European integration in peace and conflict resolution. It presents an argument about the potential of the concept of Europeanisation and the governance perspective in European Union studies to explain the effects of European...