Leadership in the Eurozone - The Role of Germany and EU Institutions

Leadership of powerful states and organizations is crucial for the success of regional integration projects. This book offers a theoretical model explaining such leadership. By applying the model to eurozone governance and reform, the book combines innovative theorizing on leadership in regional and international affairs with original research on Economic and Monetary Union politics. Six in-depth case studies analyze the (non-)leadership of Germany and EU institutions in eurozone crisis management. Moreover, the book evaluates the eurozone's leadership record since the outbreak of its crisis and helps readers understand the leadership of collective actors, and the extent to which they can contribute to overcoming crisis and fostering European integration. In particular, the book investigates the under-researched questions of who provided leadership in the eurozone crisis and why, and which conditions are required to achieve successful leadership in the EU.

List of contents

1 Introduction: Explaining Leadership in the Eurozone.- 2 Conceptualizing Leadership: What It Is and Why It Matters.- 3 Theorizing Leadership: Emergence and Impact.- 4 Analysing Leadership I: Germany in the Eurozone Crisis.- 5 Analysing Leadership II: The EU Institutions in the Eurozone Crisis.- 6 Evaluating Leadership: The Hard Case of the Eurozone. 7 Conclusions.

About the author

Magnus G. Schoeller is a researcher at the Centre for European Integration Research (EIF), University of Vienna, Austria, and Research Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence, Italy.

Product details

• Authors: Magnus G. Schoeller
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2019
• EAN: 9783030127039
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3012703-9
• No. of pages: 223
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 215 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 223 p. 12 illus., 5 illus. in color.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Internationale Beziehungen, Europa, B, European Politics, Political Science, Germany, Politische Führer und Führung, International Relations, crisis management, European Union, Eurobonds, Politics & government, Political leaders & leadership, Political Science and International Studies, Regionalism, European Central Bank, European Parliament, EU (European Union), European Union Politics, Political Leadership, German Politics, Germany—Politics and government, EU Politics, institutional leadership