CENTRIFUGAL

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CENTRIFUGAL

• INTERGOVERNMENTALISM?

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KEYS

• CF. HAGUE WITH DE GAULLE/THATCHER
• SOVERIEGNTY
• HISTORY
• ECONOMIC COMPETITION
• WHO PAYS

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WHO PAYS?

• EUROS
• LUXEMBOURG 1769
• IRELAND 635
• GREECE 382
• PORTUGAL 271
• - UK -48
• - SWEDEN -100
• GERMANY/NETHERLANDS -140

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KEYS cont.

• Geography
• Disagreements about
• not inexorable
• attitude to US/NATO
• elites v.po
• over the cliff
• sub-national identity
• traditional IOs

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CONCLUSION

• LIVE ISSUE
• NOT INEVITABLE
• BIG ISSUES
• ENLARGEMENT
• EURO
• IGC/CONSTITUTION
• DEFENCE

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STRUCTURE OF EU

• ORIGINS 1991-1993
• AMSTERDAM 1997-1999
• NICE 2000-2003
• IGC
• ON NOT OF
• PILLARS 3/3½/4?

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Europeanisation

• EU-isation? HW
• Cowles, Caporaso Risse 2001
• the emergence and development at the European
  level of distinct structures of governance,
  thatis, of political, legal and social
  institutions associated with political
  problem-solving that formalise interactions among
  the actors, and of policy networks specialising
  in the creation of authoritative European rules

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• Radaeilli
• Processes of (a) construction, (b) diffusion,
  and (c) institutionalisation of formal and
  informal rules, procedures, policy paradigms,
  styles, ways of doing things, and shared
  beliefs and norms which are first defined and
  consolidated in the making of EU public policy
  and politics and then incorporated in the logic
  of domestic discourse, identities, political
  structures, and public policies

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• Featherstone
• Minimally, europeanisation involves a
  response to the policies of the European Union
• structured change
• Juridification
• Identity/culture?
• political construction
• shifts in discourse, interests and ideas
• citizenship

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• A.D. Smith - no threat
• rather family of cultures
• affective dimension is critical Laffan