Acknowledgments
List of Tables, Boxes, Figures, and Maps
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Achim Hurrelmann, and Amy Verdun
The Purpose of This Book
The EU as a Peace Project: One Overarching Insight and Three Themes of Debate
Theme 1: Economic Cooperation in a Mixed Economy
Theme 2: More Than an International Organization, Less Than a State
Theme 3: From Economic to Democratic Legitimation?
Structure of the Book
Part One: Integration and Governance
2. A Short History of the European Union
Constantin Chira-Pascanut
European Integration: A Historical Overview
The First Moves: The European Coal and Steel Community (1951), the European Economic Community (1957), and the European Atomic Energy Community (1957)
The 1960s: A Decade of Mixed Results
The 1970s: Facing Economic and Financial Crisis
The 1980s and the 1990s: European Integration Relaunched
The EU at the Beginning of the New Century
The EU after 2010 - Coping with Crisis
Why/How Does a Historical Analysis Matter for Understanding the EU Today?
3. The Political Institutions of the European Union
Finn Laursen, Achim Hurrelmann, and Amy Verdun
The European Council
The European Commission
The Council of the EU
The European Parliament
The Interplay of Institutions in EU Policy-Making
Debate: Efficiency, Solidarity, and Leadership
4. Legal Integration and the Court of Justice of the European Union
Martha O’Brien and Eszter Bodnár
Primary Law: The Treaties
Secondary Law: Acts of the EU Institutions
Fundamental Principles of the EU Law
The Court of Justice of the European Union: Overview
The CJEU as a Constitutional Court for the European Union
Enforcing EU Law in the Member States
Reviewing EU Secondary Legislation
Protecting Fundamental Rights
Debate: Incremental Legal Integration, Direct Effect and Supremacy
5. Policy Making and Governance in the European Union’s Multilevel System
Ingeborg Tömmel
The Fundamental Constraints on EU Policy-Making
The Evolution of EU Policy-Making and Governance
Consolidating EU Multilevel Governance
Debate: Is EU Governance Effective?
6. Theories of European Integration and Governance
Amy Verdun
Federalism, Neofunctionalism, and Intergovernmentalism
Federalism
Neofunctionalism
Intergovernmentalism
Multilevel Governance, Governance, Europeanization, and Institutionalism
Theories of Democracy, Legitimacy, and the EU as a Global Player
Debate: Why Use Theories in European Integration Studies?
Part Two: Policies
7. Economic and Monetary integration: Single Market and EMU
Paul Schure and Amy Verdun
From the Common Market to the Single Market
Creating Europe’s Single Currency
The First Ten Years of EMU
From Financial Crisis to Sovereign Debt Crisis
Crises Responses: New Institutions for the Single Currency
Banking Union and Capital Markets Union
Debate: Fiscal Federalism, Vicious Circle, and Current Challenges
8. Migration, Citizenship, and Security
Oliver Schmidtke
Justice, Freedom, and Security: From Humble Beginnings to a Key EU Policy Field
Migration and Asylum
Justice, Fundamental Rights, and Citizenship
Borders and Security
Debate: Governing Migration and Borders: The Refugee Crisis and its Impact on the EU
9. Foreign, Security, and Defence Policies
Frédéric Mérand and Antoine Rayroux
A Short History of EU Foreign Policy
A Hybrid Foreign Policy System
Debates in EU Foreign Policy
10. Common Agricultural Policy
Crina Viju-Miljusevic
Common Agricultural Policy: History, Instruments, and Reforms
History
CAP Instruments and Their Outcomes
CAP Reforms
Debates: Distributing the Budget, Farm Support, and Decentralization
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