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The European Union: How does it work? (6th edn)

Daniel Kenealy, Amelia Hadfield, Richard Corbett, and John Peterson

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The European Union: How does it work? (6th edn)

Daniel Kenealy, Amelia Hadfield, Richard Corbett, and John Peterson

p. xviiList of Boxes

Daniel Kenealy,
Amelia Hadfield,
Richard Corbett
and John Peterson

1.1

What’s in a name? 4

1.2

Key concepts and terms 5

1.3

Spotlight on: The EU’s institutions 7

1.4

Spotlight on: The practical significance of the EU 9

1.5

Constitutional, reform, or Lisbon Treaty? 11

1.6

Spotlight on: The idea of federalism 19

1.7

Spotlight on: The treaties 22

1.8

How it really works: Lost in interpretation? 24

2.1

Spotlight on: Interpreting European integration 29

2.2

Key concepts and terms 30

2.3

How it really works: Rhetoric versus reality in the Schuman Plan 32

2.4

Free trade areas to economic unions—a spectrum of cooperation 35

2.5

How it really works: The UK’s accession and competing visions of Europe 37

3.1

How it really works: Who initiates policy? 55

3.2

Spotlight on: The evolving structure of the College 57

3.3

How it really works: Reaching decisions in the Council 62

3.4

How it really works: How does the EP ‘squeeze’ power? 69

3.5

Spotlight on: ‘Constitutional’ Courts in the EU and the US 72

3.6

Spotlight on: Other institutions and bodies 77

3.7

Spotlight on: EU agencies 79

4.1

The concept of a member state 86

4.2

Spotlight on: Europeanization 87

4.3

Spotlight on: Euroscepticism—what’s in a label? 92

4.4

Spotlight on: The Franco-German relationship 97

4.5

How it really works: New vs. old and the East-West divide 100

4.6

How it really works: The 2019 Romanian presidency? 102

4.7

Spotlight on: EU member state groupings and coalitions 105

5.1

Key concepts and terms 109

5.2

Spotlight on: Special (non-‘Ordinary’) legislative procedures 113

5.3

Beyond legislative acts and procedures 116

5.4

How it really works: Trilogues 121p. xviii

5.5

How it really works: Smoking guns and lobbying 124

5.6

Spotlight on: Enhanced cooperation 130

6.1

Key concepts and terms 137

6.2

Spotlight on: Democracy, values, and the treaties 138

6.3

Spotlight on: Legitimacy 139

6.4

Spotlight on: Participatory democracy in the EU 144

6.5

Spotlight on: European political parties 145

6.6

What drives euroscepticism? 147

6.7

Appointing prime ministers: There’s no single way to do it 150

6.8

How it really works: Picking a Commission president in 2019 151

7.1

Key concepts and terms 162

7.2

Spotlight on: The EU’s budget and its historic reform in 2020 164

7.3

Spotlight on: The Open Method of Coordination 175

7.4

Spotlight on: Important EU funds and spending programmes 177

8.1

Key concepts and terms 190

8.2

How it really works: The EU and the Middle East and North African region 196

8.3

How it really works: Making foreign policy decisions 201

8.4

Spotlight on: The EU’s Global Strategy 203

8.5

Spotlight on: The EU and great power rivalry 204

9.1

Key concepts and terms 212

9.2

Spotlight on: Criteria for membership 215

9.3

The path to membership 219

9.4

Spotlight on: A double race to membership in the EU and NATO? 220

9.5

How it really works: Joining the EU individually or together 223

10.1

Spotlight on: Brexit and the politics of Northern Ireland 249

10.2

Spotlight on: The European Green Deal 256

10.3

Words matter in the language of crisis 256

11.1

What’s in a name? 267

11.2

Spotlight on: A crisis-ification of the EU? 273

11.3

How it really works: ‘Ever closer Union’ or ‘ever more differentiation’? 275

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The European Union: How does it work? (6th edn)

p. xviiList of Boxes

p. xviiList of Boxes