As the EU further enlarges and deepens through rounds of treaty reforms, it is imperative to understand the dynamics of the major decisions, or big bangs, in the integration process. This book will present the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the major rounds of treaty reform over the past two decades, in an attempt to answer 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 by other actors such as the Commission or smaller member states.
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"Derek Beach and Colette Mazzucelli's book clarifies one of the least understood phenomena in European policymaking: leadership. Intellectual laziness has allowed us to believe that leadership in European policymaking is derived from the charisma of statesmen like de Gaulle, Adenauer, Kohl, Mitterrand and Delors. This book demonstrates that leadership has structural causes and must be seen in context. In fact, leadership is all about creating consensus under conditions of bounded rationality. Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration is an important step forward in our understanding of the European Union." --Stefan Collignon, Political Economist, London School of Economics and Harvard University
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Derek Beach is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and has been a visiting scholar at SAIS, Johns Hopkins in Washington DC. He has recently published articles on the Council Secretariat and an article explaining governmental compliance with EU law, and has published two books, The Dynamics of European Integration: Why and When EU Institutions Matter (2005) and Between Law and Politics (2001), along with several chapters in edited volumes.
Colette Mazzucelli is on full-time faculty at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy, Seton Hall University, USA. She conducts research in Paris at the Centre for European Studies, Sciences Po, and the German Historical Institute. She also teaches on graduate faculty at New York University's Center for Global Affairs. As a speaker for the United States Information Service, she toured France, Germany and Poland. A Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in the Foreign Office, she assisted with the ratification of the Treaty on European Union in Germany.
Colette Mazzucelli is on full-time faculty at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy, Seton Hall University, USA. She conducts research in Paris at the Centre for European Studies, Sciences Po, and the German Historical Institute. She also teaches on graduate faculty at New York University's Center for Global Affairs. As a speaker for the United States Information Service, she toured France, Germany and Poland. A Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow in the Foreign Office, she assisted with the ratification of the Treaty on European Union in Germany.
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