Opting Out of the European Union

Diplomacy, Sovereignty and European Integration

AvRebecca Adler-Nissen

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

European integration continues to deepen despite major crises and attempts to take back sovereignty. A growing number of member states are reacting to a more constraining EU by negotiating opt-outs. This book provides the first in-depth account of how opt-outs work in practice. It examines the most controversial cases of differentiated integration: the British and Danish opt-outs from Economic and Monetary Union and European policies on borders, asylum, migration, internal security and justice. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with national representatives and EU officials, the author demonstrates how representatives manage the stigma of opting out, allowing them to influence even politically sensitive areas covered by their opt-outs. Developing a practice approach to European integration, the book shows how everyday negotiations transform national interests into European ideals. It is usually assumed that states opt out to preserve sovereignty, but Adler-Nissen argues that national opt-outs may actually reinforce the integration process.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-02-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:390 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:266
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107618343
Utmärkelser:IPS Book Award, International Political Sociology Section, International Studies Association 2015

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Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Rebecca Adler-Nissen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on international relations theory, diplomacy, sovereignty, security and European integration. She is editor of Bourdieu in International Relations: Rethinking Key Concepts in IR (2012), and co-editor of European Integration and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games: The EU Overseas Countries and Territories (2012) and Sovereignty Games: Instrumentalizing State Sovereignty in Europe and Beyond (2008).

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'This is an excellent book which covers an important and timely topic in an innovative and useful way. I have no doubt that this will be a work of great interest to students of European studies, international theory, and diplomatic studies. It demonstrates the value of incorporating sociological approaches into the study of the increasingly wider and more important spaces which are developing between the insides and the outsides and about which much of IR theory struggles to speak coherently.' Paul Sharp, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction; 2. Disintegrating Europe?; 3. A political sociology of European integration; 4. The stigma of Euro-outsiderness; 5. Through the revolving doors of freedom, justice and security; 6. Late sovereign diplomacy; 7. Conclusion.