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This book investigates how the European Union's history exhibits numerous episodes in which Member States have sought to re-enforce their national autonomy in the face of deepening integration.
List of contents
- Part 1: Theorising Autonomy and Collapse
- 1: Mark Dawson and Markus Jachtenfuchs: Autonomy without Collapse? Towards a Better European Union
- 2: Damian Chalmers: The European Union as a Community of Super Wicked Problems and its Ambition-Authority Deficit
- Part 2: Differentiated Integration
- 3: Frank Schimmelfennig: Overcoming Crisis in the European Union: The Limits of Differentiated Integration
- 4: Bruno de Witte: The Law as Tool and Constraint of Differentiated Integration
- 5: Christian Freudlsperger: Rather reduce than accommodate? Coping with Territorial Diversity in Multilevel Polities
- Part 3: Revisiting the EU's Constitutional Foundations
- 6: Susanne K. Schmidt: Governing by Judicial Fiat? Over-Constitutionalisation and its Constraints on EU Legislation.
- 7: Gareth Davies: Interpretative Pluralism and the Constitutionalisation of the EU Legal Order
- 8: Ana Bobic: Forging Identity-Based Constructive Constitutional Conflict in the European Union
- 9: Catherine Barnard and Sarah Fraser Butlin: Free Movement: A Case Study in State Autonomy and EU Control
About the author
Mark Dawson is Professor of European Law and Governance at the Hertie School in Berlin. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Maastricht University and obtained his PhD from the EUI in Florence where he was in 2019 Fernand Braudel fellow. His research focuses on the relationship between law and policymaking in the EU. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator of LEVIATHAN, a European Research Council project exploring the legal and political accountability structure of EU economic governance. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the European Law Review and co-editor of the book series Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy.
Markus Jachtenfuchs is Professor of European and Global Governance at the Hertie School and Co-Director of the Jacques Delors Centre. His main research interest is the study of multilevel governance in the EU and in the international system. In 2010, Jachtenfuchs was the Pierre Keller Visiting Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Before joining the Hertie School in 2006 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Greifswald and Professor of Political Science at Jacobs University Bremen. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence in 1994, after studying political science in Mainz, Paris, Berlin and Bruges.
Summary
This book investigates how the European Union's history exhibits numerous episodes in which Member States have sought to re-enforce their national autonomy in the face of deepening integration.
