Essays about: "eu intergovernmentalism"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 40 essays containing the words eu intergovernmentalism.

  1. 16. Towards a Common Identity? : A qualitative case study on the European Union's motivations for the 'Common Foreign and Security Policy'

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Tim Jonsson; [2019]
    Keywords : European Union; Common Foreign and Security Policy; Security Politics; Identity;

    Abstract : The purpose and main thesis of this study is to analyze the motivations for the European Union’s Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) over time. By examining annual reports from the Office of the High Representative of Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the CFSP, ranging from 2009-2017, the aim is to investigate whether the EUs increased security cooperation is motivated by arguments expressing a common European identity, or by arguments supporting pragmatic cooperation between member states. READ MORE

  3. 17. Renewable Energy Directive II: A case study in European Integration

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : John Michael Kelly; [2019]
    Keywords : European Integration; Policy Formulation; Neofunctionalism; Liberal Intergovernmentalism; Online Consultation; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to examine a tool used by the European Commission, that of the online consultation. This tool is used as a vehicle to gather information and knowledge from a broad group of stakeholders before the Commission formulates its policy. READ MORE

  4. 18. Shared Vision, Common Action Explained : A Case Study of the Strategy-making Process of the European Union Global Strategy- A Function of Liberal Intergovernmentalism or Neofunctionalism?

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling

    Author : Staffan Åkesson; [2019]
    Keywords : EU; EEAS; strategy-making; liberal intergovernmentalism; neofunctionalism;

    Abstract : This study is an attempt to understand strategy-making in the European Union (EU). By targeting the strategy-making process of the European Union Global Strategy (EUGS), the stydy aims to reveal the legal provisions and the in-practice procedures of strategy-making in the area of EU foreign policy. READ MORE

  5. 19. Still a stronghold of welfare governance? A Critical Reading of the EU’s Educational Policy in a Neoliberal Era

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Miguel Rudolf-Cibien; [2019]
    Keywords : European Union; education policy; neoliberalism; logics of critical explanation; post-foundational discourse theory;

    Abstract : In the last decades, the EU’s policy on education has become increasingly geared towards serving the economy. While some have been quick to label these changes as neoliberal, this is not such an obvious analysis considering that European education systems are still well-known for their welfare governance. READ MORE

  6. 20. Of Funds and Values: The Rule of Law conditionality: A politicization of the European Union Cohesion Policy?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

    Author : Erlend Malmer; [2019]
    Keywords : European Union; EU budget; Cohesion Policy; European Structural and Investment fund; Politicization; Conditionality; Rule of Law; Illiberalism; European Studies; Social Sciences; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : This research looks at if the Cohesion Policy is politicized, by looking at the newly proposed Rule of Law conditionality attached to funding, and what this signifies for European Integration. As the conditionality adds to the fold of an ever-increasing amount of internal EU conditionality attached to EU funding since 2014, this paper re-tools Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier’s external incentive model, and finds that there is a politicization of the Cohesion Policy. READ MORE