Crisis pressures and European integration

Ferrara, Federico Maria; Kriesi, Hanspeter

doi:10.1080/13501763.2021.1966079

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“…To accept, politically and in terms of policy instrumentation, the presence of different and often overlapping crises, and to generate policy responses is now a typical (as opposed to exceptional) ‘way of doing things’ in the EU. In the long term, this is also a ‘way of doing integration’ – a point that was not lost in classic theories of European integration (Ferrara and Kriesi, 2022). A crisis provides a formidable threat to integration.…”

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Policy Learning and European Integration

Radaelli

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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way of doing integration'a point that was not lost in classic theories of European integration (Ferrara and Kriesi, 2022). A crisis provides a formidable threat to integration. But it also creates a decision-making window of opportunity wider than normal-times windows. How the EU approaches this opportunity is crucial: it can be a disaster or a positive discontinuity, a leap into further integration. After all, 'Europe will be forged in crisis' famously wrote Jean Monnet in his Mémoires (1976). Can we then look at integration, to carry on with Monnet, as the cumulative effects of the responses to crises? If there is a connection between crisis and integration, it is reasonable to think that learning is a possible result of the 'way of managing and responding to crises'.Back to 2021, the year in review seems to corroborate the learning-from-crisis argument. Crisis featured prominently: the turbulent start of the year in transatlantic relations with the attack on Capitol Hill, the total shake-up of orthodox economic paradigms about spending in deficit, the lethal incidents affecting migrants (43 people drowned in January only), the constant attempts to undermine the rule of law, compounded by the discussed leadership of Slovenia when this country assumed the EU Presidency in the second half, the troubled wake of Brexit, and of course the obstinate presence of the Covid-19 virus. At the same time, 2021 was the year of the pan-EU Covid-19 certificate and of the EU institutions coming together in the finalization of ambitious policies for ecological and digital recovery. Resilience is a key word in the

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way of doing integration'a point that was not lost in classic theories of European integration (Ferrara and Kriesi, 2022). A crisis provides a formidable threat to integration.

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2022

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“…Another attempt to combine prominent theories of European integration has been formulated recently by Ferrara and Kriesi (2022). In their analytical framework, they considered four theories -neofunctionalism, intergovernmentalism, postfunctionalism and federalism.…”

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A New Impetus for the European Crisis Literature

Zachová

2022

Politics in Central Europe

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The review essay presents European crisis literature, which tests the theories of European integration. It argues that the existing research on European crises and subsequent reactions by the European Union is fragmented, non-systematic and works with a too-implicit definition of ‘crisis’. The reviewed literature comments on turbulent developments in the European Union rather than providing comprehensive empirical research. The article demonstrates existing gaps and suggests a conceptualisation of the research topic. It also promotes a systematic research framework enabling a proper analysis of the European crises and the European Union’s reactions. Such a framework is based on a clear definition of the relevant actors and crisis situations and the identification of an empirical basis for analysis. The author argues that a systematic approach could enhance researchers’ ability to understand reactions to turbulence in European integration better and even predict the European Union’s responses to future events.

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“…The launching of the EU's strategic partnerships with the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India and China – besides upgrading relations with long‐term partners, also helped consolidate the image of the EU as a global player and an influential norm entrepreneur. However, with the 2008 financial crisis, the EU entered a decade‐long series of internal and external crises that led to increased internal and external pressures on and politicization of EU external relations (see, for example, Ferrara and Kriesi, 2021). Thus, unsurprisingly, the EU's 2016 Global Strategy emphasized ‘the need for the organization to invest in its current external partnerships’ (Ferreira‐Pereira and Smith, 2021a, p. 7) to meet emerging challenges and provide global public goods.…”

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Joint Bodies and the Regularization of Strategic Interaction: A Comparison of the European Union's Strategic Partnerships with Japan and India

Czechowska

2022

J of Common Market Studies

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In recent years, the European Union's strategic partnerships have undergone a new wave of institutionalization. Relations with both India and Japan are a case in point: after a decade or more of under‐institutionalized and situational interaction generally framed by political declarations, a more contractual model of bilateral relations has emerged and with it the proliferation of joint bodies. Such joint bodies and the overall regularization of bilateral contacts play an important but largely overlooked role in sustaining the strategic partnership. This article assesses the rationale and performance of joint institutional frameworks devised for the EU–Japan and EU–India strategic partnerships. Informed by an original conceptual approach, the article assesses the regularization and intensification of strategic interaction in these two partnerships.

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Crisis pressures and European integration

Cited by 61 publications

References 57 publications

Policy Learning and European Integration

Policy Learning and European Integration

A New Impetus for the European Crisis Literature

Joint Bodies and the Regularization of Strategic Interaction: A Comparison of the European Union's Strategic Partnerships with Japan and India

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