Small States and EU Governance: Leadership Through the Council Presidency (St. Antony's)

✍ Scribed by Simone Bunse

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Series: St. Antony's Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Small States and EU Governance shows that the EU’s rotating Council presidency and small states’ capacity to make use of it have been underestimated. It examines the political objectives the presidency serves and presents a systematic and comparative assessment of its nature and influence in internal market and foreign policy issues.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 11
Foreword......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Abbreviations......Page 16
I. The Council presidency and small states......Page 20
II. The gaps in our understanding of the presidency......Page 21
III. Hypotheses, methodology, and theoretical underpinnings......Page 23
IV. The cases......Page 29
V. Limits and caveats......Page 33
VI. Structure and propositions......Page 35
Introduction......Page 37
I. The presidency as the guardian of equality: the EU'S institutional balance......Page 38
II. The evolution of the presidency......Page 50
Conclusion......Page 56
Introduction......Page 58
I. Policy entrepreneurship and agenda-setting in the EU......Page 59
II. Conceptualising the presidency: neutral broker versus policy entrepreneur......Page 62
III. Conditions for Success......Page 74
Conclusion......Page 89
Introduction......Page 93
I. Finnish internal market and foreign policy presidency objectives......Page 94
II. Obstacles: the leadership environment, institutional hurdles, and preference divergence......Page 98
III. Overcoming the obstacles: the strategic process......Page 102
IV. Conditions for success......Page 113
V. Revision of achievements: assessing the counterfactuals......Page 122
Conclusion......Page 130
Introduction......Page 133
I. Belgian internal market and foreign policy presidency objectives......Page 134
II. Obstacles: the leadership environment, institutional hurdles, and preference divergence......Page 139
III. Overcoming the obstacles: the strategic process......Page 145
IV. Conditions for success......Page 158
V. Revision of achievements: assessing the counterfactuals......Page 169
Conclusion......Page 175
Introduction......Page 178
I. Greek internal market and foreign policy presidency objectives......Page 179
II. Obstacles: the leadership environment, institutional hurdles, and preference divergence......Page 183
III. Overcoming the obstacles: the strategic process......Page 188
IV. Conditions for success......Page 203
V. Revision of achievements: assessing the counterfactuals......Page 211
Conclusion......Page 218
I. The presidency, national interests, and levels of influence......Page 221
II. A question of size? On the presidency's resources and constraints......Page 225
III. The presidency as a policy entrepreneur......Page 229
IV. The value of the rotating Council presidency......Page 231
V. Are the alternatives better?......Page 234
Appendix......Page 237
Notes......Page 241
Bibliography......Page 263
C......Page 301
E......Page 303
I......Page 304
M......Page 305
P......Page 306
S......Page 307
W......Page 308
Z......Page 309