The polycrisis and EU security and defence competences

Journal of European Public Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 31(10), P. 3224 - 3248

Published: June 10, 2024

From the 2009 sovereign debt crisis to 2022 Russian full-scale war in Ukraine, EU has experienced a succession of intersecting crises, or 'polycrisis'. We examine how this polycrisis impacted EU's role security and defence. While competences defence have long suffered from disagreements among member states, they shown notable developments since Brexit, most importantly, Ukraine. make two-step argument shed light on why had these differentiated effects over time. The first move we is unpack explain when an increase may take place. single out two crises that offer pathways for positive politicisation, leading increased cooperation competences: external military threat internal form loss major veto player. In second step, argue existence alternative organisation, NATO, helps us where what can Shared threats lead complementary rather than substitutive empowerment at least during duration crisis.

Language: Английский

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Introduction: escaping the politics trap? EU integration pathways beyond the polycrisis

Journal of European Public Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 31(10), P. 3011 - 3035

Published: June 26, 2024

Since 2016, the EU has widely been considered to be in a state of 'polycrisis', where simultaneous, mutually reinforcing challenges threaten Union's cohesion and legitimacy. Such polycrises may fracture Europe's political space, creating cross-cutting 'polycleavages' that polarise member states their citizens asymmetrically, thereby constraining EU's capacity forge effective compromises on key policy issues. In so doing, they exacerbate risk falling into multi-level 'politics trap', negative politicisation European issues inhibits national leaders from agreeing ambitious solutions intergovernmental negotiations, while ensuing deadlock turn saps output-based legitimacy fuels Eurosceptic 'constraining dissensus'. this introductory article, we develop an analytical framework elaborating concepts polycrises, polycleavages, politics traps, which then use present interpret main findings contributions collection, focused Covid-19 pandemic Russian invasion Ukraine. The most important takeaway collection is – consistent with our clearly proved more resilient potential consequences than many commentators had expected at beginning long polycrisis decade.

Language: Английский

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“Zeitenwende” as coming of age? EU foreign & security policy through war & peace*

European Security, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 33(3), P. 345 - 363

Published: July 2, 2024

Language: Английский

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EU transnational coalitions in polycrisis: the Visegrád-4 before and after the Russo-Ukrainian war

Journal of European Public Policy, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 31(10), P. 3299 - 3323

Published: June 6, 2024

The advances in EU integration since COVID-19 and Russia's full-scale invasion have challenged the expectations of cross-cutting cleavages resulting a 'politics trap'. This article addresses this puzzle through case study Visegrád-4 (V4), key coalition politics which significantly influenced many policy areas but whose effectiveness has strikingly diminished post-Brexit. Borrowing insights from theories literature on transnational coalitions, contends that inter-state cooperation depends salience national politicisation strategies. Based survey documents secondary literature, it argues V4 group effectively shaped issue-specific bargaining low-salience joint high-salience issues when fitted political strategies incumbent leaders. However, 'second polycrisis', unity influence frayed due to overlapping conflicts high-salience, non-negotiable areas, prominently, security.

Language: Английский

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Crisis Policymaking in the EU

Published: Dec. 16, 2024

This Element compares crisis-specific policymaking, its causes and consequences, at the two levels of EU polity during COVID-19 refugee crisis 2015–16. In both crises, policymaking responded to exogenous pressure was dominated by executive decision-making. Still, it also differed in three critical aspects: much more salient, consensual, effective than crisis. The present study accounts for similarities differences, which attempts explain features nature crises. key argument is that process crises is, a large extent, determined situation – functional problem pressure, institutional context (of polity), corresponding political origin given title available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Language: Английский

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Joint defence as a European public good

International Politics, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Dec. 6, 2024

Language: Английский

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