V International Relations Relations Internationales
| Published date | 01 August 2018 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002083451806800405 |
| Date | 01 August 2018 |
| Subject Matter | Abstract |
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68.5091 BAIRD, Theodore — Interest groups and strategic con-
structivism: business actors and border security policies
in the European Union. Journal of Ethnic and Migration
Studies 44(1), 2018 : 118-136.
Evidence suggests that business lobbying shapes EU border security
policies, but there has been no detailed empirical and theoretical work
detailing how interest groups exert influence in this domain. Building on
strategic constructivist accounts of policy-making, the article argues that EU
border security policies have been tailored to the preferences, identities,
and frames of business actors through three key processes. Policy prefer-
ences are co-constituted by business actors through strategic communica-
tion, identities are constructed to gain political legitimacy through strategic
legitimation, and social contexts are framed to fit business interests through
practices of strategic contextualisation. I use evidence from in-depth inter-
views with key actors in the field of EU border security policy-making,
participant observation at key border security events, and analysis of key
policy documents to build the argument. [R]
68.5092 BEETZ, Jan Pieter — From practice to principle and back:
applying a new realist method to the European Union’s
democratic deficit. Political Studies 66(2), May 2018 : 339-
355.
The prospect of a Brexit illustrates that the EU’s legitimacy deficit can
have far-reaching political consequences. In normative political theory,
realists take a keen interest in questions of legitimacy. Building on B.
Williams’ realist writings, I propose a two-step method of normative
political theorization. Each step contains both a practice-sensitive phase
and a practice-insensitive phase. First, the conceptualization of a norm
should draw on conceptual resources available to agents within their
historical circumstances. Second, the prescriptions that follow from this
norm should take into account whether political order can be maintained.
Applying this method to the EU’s democratic deficit yields, first, based on
public opinion research, the norm of European deep diversity and,
second, a set of prescriptions for a demoicratic confederacy. [R, abr.]
68.5093 BIANCO, Cinzia ; STANSFIELD, Gareth — The intra-GCC
crises: mapping GCC fragmentation after 2011. Interna-
tional Affairs 94(3), May 2018 : 613-636.
If shared security perceptions were the foundation of the Gulf Cooperation
Council (GCC), 2011 might be analysed as the watershed year in which the
GCC began to fragment from within. Both the 2014 and 2017 intra-GCC
crises were manifestations of conflicting security perceptions, formed
across the GCC countries in and since 2011. We distinguish three different
categories of conceptualization. First, the governments of Saudi Arabia,
Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates perceived domestic protests as an
‘intermestic’ threat — triggered by the intersection of the international and
domestic levels. Second, the leaders of Oman and Kuwait conceptualized
protests in their countries as manageable domestic insecurity, rather than
as fully-fledged externally orchestrated events — arguably because they
did not perceive a direct danger to their stability and legitimacy. Finally, it
can be argued that the government of Qatar did not see any real danger in
the protests but instead viewed them as an opportunity to expand Doha's
regional influence, arguably at Riyadh's expense. [R, abr.]
68.5094 BÖTTNER, Robert — The size and structure of the Euro-
pean Commission: legal issues surrounding project
teams and a (future) reduced College. European Constitu-
tional Law Review 14(1), 2018 : 37-61.
European Commission — Size of the Commission — Presidentialisation
— President’s power of organisation — Principle of collegiality — Re-
sponsibility of the College at large — Reorganisation of the Commission
— Balance between efficiency and member state representation —
Legality of project teams — Rotation of voting rights in EU law — System
of rotation for the European Commission. [R]
68.5095 BOURNE, Mike — Powers of the gun: process and possi-
bility in global small arms control. International Politics
55(3-4), May 2018 : 441-461.
Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) are the principal tools of armed
violence, but the development of a global "regime" has been a frag-
mented and fragile process that reinforces sovereignty more than it
regulates violence. This article argues that rather than a settled regime,
the global processes on SALW are better understood as a "global as-
semblage". Drawing on new materialism and process philosophy, the
article does not seek to explain a regime through power but to explain
power through its assemblage. It shows how powers are produced as a
global collective for action on SALW is composed. This composition of
powers operates not only by producing agreements, but by creating and
proliferating the possibilities to disagree, re-composing the meanings of
decision and consensus, and generating objects for cooperation that
constitute particular modes of global action that render guns governable.
[R] [See Abstr. 68.4706]
68.5096 BRACK, Nathalie ; COSTA, Olivier — Democracy in parlia-
ment vs. democracy through parliament? Defining the
rules of the game in the European Parliament. Journal of
Legislative Studies 24(1), March 2018 : 51-71.
While an extensive (US) literature stresses the importance of procedural
rules in the evolution of parliaments as well as in the legislative process,
very few studies have focused on the European Parliament (EP) rules.
Whereas the EP's empowerment was significantly influenced by its rules
of procedure, the reforms of these rules and their consequences for
political actors remain understudied. This paper aims to contribute to the
theorisation of the EP's institutional dynamics in light of the North Ameri-
can theories. It examines the challenges faced by the EP due to the
rationalisation of its deliberation and the consequences of the procedural
changes for the institution, its members and its public image. [R, abr.]
[See Abstr. 68.5117]
68.5097 BRESSANELLI, Edoardo ; CHELOTTI, Nicola — The Euro-
pean Parliament and economic governance: explaining a
case of limited influence. Journal of Legislative Studies
24(1), March 2018 : 72-89.
This article studies the influence of the European Parliament (EP) in the
reform of the EU’s economic governance. Descriptively, it aims to provide
a systematic map of the negotiations of the Six- and the Two-Pack
legislation, focusing on the key controversies between the co-legislators ,
and comparing the position of the EP with the Commission’s legislative
proposals, the Council position and the final legislative output. The
surprisingly limited influence of the EP is then assessed through rational
choice and sociological institutionalist perspectives. While the more
favourable BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) of the
Council could explain the outcome of the Two-Pack, and a norm of
responsibility triggered by the crisis could account for the limited impact
of the EP on the Six-Pack, the authors advance a different explanation.
[R, abr.] [See Abstr. 68.5117]
68.5098 BURNS, Charlotte ; CLIFTON, Judith ; QUAGLIA, Lucia —
Explaining policy change in the EU: financial reform after
the crisis. Journal of European Public Policy 25(5), 2018 :
728-746.
The EU has been hit by financial and economic crises since 2008. To
shed light upon the impact of these crises, this article reviews punctuated
equilibrium theory (PET) to develop expectations that are tested against
two cases of financial regulation and privatization policy. In one, despite
the demand for a new model from EU leaders, limited change occurred;
in the other, despite legal limitations, significant change emerged. Analy-
sis of the cases reveals a new form of policy venue, and the suggestion
that the EU PET literature must consider more systematically and explic-
itly the role of veto players in shaping policy change. [R]
68.5099 CARRUBBA, Clifford J. ; GABEL, Matthew — International
courts: a theoretical assessment. Annual Review of Politi-
cal Science 20, 2017 : 55-73.
Scholars long fascinated by the role of international courts in the en-
forcement of international rule of law [ask]: Can international courts affect
how international law is implemented? We lay out four of the most com-
mon theoretical arguments for why international courts matter. We then
interrogate these accounts. In particular, we examine their views on how
much influence courts have and what the likely welfare consequences
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