The European Unions Non-Members
The European Union (EU) is a supranational organization, whose reach and influence extends well beyond its member states, especially to the many states that have signed various forms of association agreement with it.
This book asks whether qualifying states who have eschewed EU membership experience negative effects on their legal and political self-governing abilities, or whether they manage their independence with few such effects. It explores the idea that the closer the affiliation a non-member state has with the EU, the more susceptible to hegemony the relationship appears to be. In addition, the book provides an overview of the total range of agreements the EU has with non-member states.
This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of EU/European studies, Scandinavian studies, European and comparative politics, international relations, and democratization studies.
Erik O. Eriksen is Professor in Political Science and Director of ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.
John Erik Fossum is Professor in Political Science at ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Routledge studies on democratising Europe
Edited by Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
ARENA, University of Oslo
Routledge Studies on Democratising Europe focuses on the prospects for a citizens Europe by analysing the kind of order that is emerging in Europe. The books in the series take stock of the EU as an entity that has progressed beyond intergovernmentalism and consider how to account for this process and what makes it democratic. The emphasis is on citizenship, constitution-making, public sphere, enlargement, common foreign and security policy, and Europe society.
1.Developing a Constitution for Europe
Edited by Erik O. Eriksen, John Erik Fossum and Agustn Jos Menndez
2.Making the European Polity Reflexive integration in the EU
Edited by Erik O. Eriksen
3.Questioning EU Enlargement
Edited by Helen Sjursen
4.The European Union and the Public Sphere
A communicative space in the making?
Edited by John Erik Fossum and Philip Schlesinger
5.Law, Democracy and Solidarity in a Post-national Union
The unsettled political order of Europe
Edited by Erik O. Eriksen, Christian Joerges and Florian Rdl
6.The New Politics of European Civil Society
Edited by Ulrike Liebert and Hans-Jrg Trenz
7.Rethinking Democracy and the European Union
Edited by Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
8.The Politicization of Europe
Contesting the constitution in the mass media
Paul Statham and Hans-Jrg Trenz
9.Democratic Decision-making in the EU
Technocracy in disguise?
Anne Elizabeth Stie
10.States of Democracy
Gender and politics in the European Union
Edited by Yvonne Galligan
11.The European Unions Non-Members
Independence under hegemony?
Edited by Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
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Contents
Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
Part I
Forms of association without membership
Sieglinde Gsthl
Sandra Lavenex and Ren Schwok
Joachim Blatter
Part II
Welcomed, inside, but still unwilling: Two EEA countries assessed
Erik O. Eriksen
Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen
Baldur Thorhallsson
Eirik Holmyvik
John Erik Fossum
Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal
Helene Sjursen
Part III
Sovereignty under hegemony
Christopher Lord
Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
Joachim Blatter is Professor of Political Science at the University of Lucerne. His main fields of interests are conceptualizations and long-term transformations of governance and democracy. His current focus is on migration and its impact on national, transnational and cosmopolitan citizenship. Recent publications include Horizontalfderalismus und Schweizer Demokratie, Swiss Political Science Review (2010); Dual Citizenship and Theories of Democracy, Citizenship Studies (2011); and Conceptualizing and Evaluating (New) Forms of Citizenship between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism (co-authored with Andrea Schlenker), Democratization (2014).
Morten Egeberg is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the Department of Political Science and ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. His main fields of interest include the European Commission, EU agencies, national executives and the relationship between the EU level and national administration. His recent publications include The European Commission: From Agent to Political Institution, Public Administration (2014); A Not So Technocratic Executive? (co-authored with se Gornitzka and Jarle Trondal), West European Politics (2014); and The Quest for Order: Unravelling the Relationship between the European Commission and European Union Agencies (co-authored with Jarle Trondal and Nina Vestlund), Journal of European Public Policy (2015).
Erik O. Eriksen is Director and Professor of Political Science at ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo. His main fields of interest are political theory, democratic governance, public policy and European integration. Recent publications include The Unfinished Democratization of Europe (2009), Rethinking Democracy and the European Union (co-edited with John Erik Fossum, 2012),
