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OverviewFrom its antecedents in the 1950s, successive forms of European integration were intended to be leaderless. They have succeeded only too well in demonstrating that much can be achieved without sustained leadership. The attachment to national sovereignty of most of the European elites and mass populations has meant that confederalism has been implicitly accepted for the foreseeable future. This book attempts to clarify three clusters of issues. First, as European integration has advanced, who has provided the impetus? Particular insiders have episodically exerted decisive innovative influence, despite the need to conciliate the jealous champions of national sovereignty. Three case studies are offered: economic and monetary policy, environmental policy and technology policy. The second part examines why the European Union is currently leaderless. The weakened Commission and the increasingly assertive European Council and Council of Ministers have contended for control of agenda-setting but it is in the sphere of foreign and security policy that the EU's logic of leaderlessness has been most conspicuous. Finally, reduced capacity of the Franco-German tandem to offer acceptable leadership and British incapacity to join or replace them in providing overall leadership is also discussed. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jack Hayward (Research Professor of Politics, University of Hull)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.655kg ISBN: 9780199535026ISBN 10: 0199535027 Pages: 330 Publication Date: 29 May 2008 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart I: Who Lead Europe 1: Jack Hayward: Strategic Innovation by Insider Influence: Monnet to Delors 2: David Howarth: Delegation and Commission Leadership in Economic and Monetary Union 3: Xiudian Dai: Guiding the Digital Revolution: Is European Technology Polict Misguided? 4: Rudiger Wurzel: Environmental Policy: EU Actors, Leader and Laggard States 5: William Paterson: Did France and Germany Lead Europe? A Retrospect Part II: Why is the EU currently Leaderless? 6: Michelle Cini: Political Leadership in the European Commission: the Santer and Prodi Commissions, 1995-2005 7: Anand Menon: Security Policy and the Logic of Leaderlessness 8: Alistair Cole: Franco-German Relations: from Active to Reactive Cooperation 9: Hussein Kassim: A Bid Too Far? New Labour and the UK Leadership of the European Union 10: Jose Magone: Leaderless Enlargement? The Difficult Reform of the New Pan-European Political System Part III: Where can Political Leadership come from? 11: John Bell: Legal Leadership in the European Union 12: Jamal Shahin: Dragging the Net through Choppy Waters: Commission Leadership and the Internet 13: David Judge and David Earnshaw: The European Parliament: Leadership and 'Followership' 14: Adriaan Schout: Behind the Rotating Presidency 15: Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos: Collective Leadership in Leaderless Europe: a Sceptical View Jack Hayward: EpilogueReviewsAuthor InformationJack Hayward taught politics at the Universities of Sheffield, Keele, Hull, and Oxford, retiring in 1998 as Director of the Oxford Institute of European Studies and Professional Fellow of St. Antony's College. Since then he has been a part-time Research Professor of Politics at the University of Hull. He has also been a Visiting Professor to several French Universities, for one year each at Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Paris Institute of Political Studies, as well as for shorter periods at the Universities of Bordeaux, Grenoble, and Rennes. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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