Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration

303 Pages·2006·1.985 MB·English

by  Derek Beach, Colette Mazzucelli (eds.)

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LEADERSHIPINTHEBIGBANGSOFEUROPEANINTEGRATION
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Leadership in the Big Bangs
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UniversityofAarhus,Denmark
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AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofHistoryandPoliticalScience
MolloyCollege,RockvilleCentre,NY,USA
AdjunctAssistantProfessor,CenterforGlobalAffairs,NewYorkUniversity
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Contents
ListofTables xi
ListofFigures xii
Foreword xiii
H.E. Ambassador Carlos Westendorp
Preface xv
Professor Ezra Suleiman
Acknowledgments xvii
NotesontheContributors xix
1 Introduction 1
Derek Beach and Colette Mazzucelli
1.1 Constitutionalreformorthe‘bigbangs’ofEuropean
integration 1
1.2 IntergovernmentalconferencesintheEuropeanUnion 3
1.3 Theoreticalorientation–whenandwhy
leadershipmatters 5
1.4 Whyleadershipisnecessary 6
1.5 TheprovisionofleadershipinEUconstitutional
negotiations 9
1.6 Leadershipresources 10
1.7 Theimpactofthenegotiatingcontext 13
1.8 Atypologyofleadershipstrategies 16
1.9 Summary 19
1.10 Outlineofthebook 20
2 TheEUPresidency:Franceinthe2000IGC 22
Jonas Tallberg
2.1 Introduction 22
2.2 PresidencyleadershipinEUnegotiations 24
2.3 LeadershipresourcesoftheEUPresidency 26
2.4 Negotiatingcontext 27
2.5 FranceandIGC2000 29
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2.6 Thepowerofthechair:assessingprocess
andoutcome 33
2.7 Conclusion 36
3 Drawing Lessons in the Chair: Assessing the Dutch
Presidency’sImpactduringtheMaastrichtandAmsterdam
Conferences 38
Colette Mazzucelli
3.1 Introduction 38
3.2 Dutchpreferences 40
3.3 TheresourcesoftheDutchPresidencyintheMaastricht
andAmsterdamIGCs 40
3.4 ThenegotiationcontextfromMaastrichttoAmsterdam 44
3.5 TheDutchPresidency’simpactonTreatyreform 46
3.6 Conclusions 55
4 The EU Presidency – Comparing the Italian and Irish
Presidencies of the 2003–04 Intergovernmental
Conference 58
Ben Crum
4.1 Introduction 58
4.2 Thecontextofthe2003–04IGC 59
4.3 Thenegotiationofthe2003–04IGC 60
4.4 Conclusion 72
5 OilingtheWheelsofCompromise:TheCouncilSecretariatin
the1996–97and2003–4IGCs 76
Derek Beach
5.1 Introduction 76
5.2 ThepreferencesandresourcesoftheCouncilSecretariat 77
5.3 TheroleandimpactoftheCouncilSecretariat 79
5.4 Conclusions 90
6 LeaderorBystander?TheEuropeanCommissionandEU
TreatyReform 94
Hussein Kassim and Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos
6.1 Introduction 94
6.2 TheorizingCommissioninfluenceinEUtreatyreform 96
6.3 TheCommissionasaleader 99
6.4 TheCommissionandTreatyreforminanhistorical
perspective 102
6.5 Conclusion 111
Contents ix
7 AFormalOutsiderBecomesanEffectivePlayer:
TheEuropeanParliamentintheNegotiation
oftheTreatyofAmsterdamandtheConstitutional
Treaty 115
Andreas Maurer
7.1 Supranationalparliamentarisminamulti-levelpolity 115
7.2 The European Parliament’s own preferences in
constitutionalreform 116
7.3 Rethinking the scope of the European Parliament’s
leadershiproleatIGCs 117
7.4 ExpectationsconcerningtheEuropeanParliament’s
leadershiprole 119
7.5 TheparticipationoftheEuropeanParliamentinthe
1996–97IGC 122
7.6 Influencingtheoutcomeofthe1996–97IGC 124
7.7 TheEuropeanParliament’sstrategiesforthe2002–04
ConventionandIGC 126
7.8 The2002–04Convention–IGCprocess 126
7.9 TheparticipationoftheEPattheIGC2003–04 131
7.10 Conclusions 131
8 BigversusSmall:SharedLeadershipintheEUandPower
PoliticsintheConvention 134
Simone Bunse, Paul Magnette and Kalypso Nicolaïdis
8.1 Introduction 134
8.2 TheEU’sinstitutionalbalance 135
8.3 PowerpoliticsintheConvention:thesmallversus
bigdivide 141
8.4 Strategiesandoutcomes 148
8.5 Conclusion 155
9 CooperativeHegemon,MissingEngineorImprobableCore?
ExplainingFrench–GermanInfluenceinEuropeanTreaty
Reform 158
Colette Mazzucelli, Ulrike Guérot and Almut Metz
9.1 Introduction 158
9.2 FrenchandGermanpreferencesinEUconstitutional
negotiations 160
9.3 TheresourcesofFranceandGermany 162
9.4 French–GermanleadershipinEuropeanconstitutional
negotiations 167
9.5 Closingremarks 175