Research into the European Union (EU) increasingly focuses on the policy-making processes which take place within the EU, as distinct from trying to explain or predict the broad phenomenon of European integration. This thesis adopts a similar focus on EU policy-making. Policy-ma…
This thesis looks at justice and home affairs (JHA) policy-making in the European Union(EU). JHA refers to those areas which have traditionally been the domain of interior andjustice ministries on the national level and which are now dealt with on the EU level on thebasis of the…
This thesis seeks to show that the origins of the 1961 British application to join theEuropean Community lay primarily in the long standing personal commitment of PrimeMinister Harold Macmillan both to the idea of supranational European aaangemeats,and to full British participat…
The introduction of the single currency (Euro) in Europe has been referred to as the ‘world’s largest economic experiment’ and has led to major research on the effects of the adoption of a common currency on economic activity with considerable emphasis on its effect on trade flo…
This dissertation poses a question about attitudes toward European integration in 23 European Union countries that include Old and New Member States. 1 These countries vary with regard to their pre-accession situation, depth of association with the EU, and duration of membership…
The study explored when, under what conditions, and to what extent did European integration, particularly the European Union’s requirement for democratic conditionality, contribute to democratic consolidation in Spain, Poland, and Turkey? On the basis of a four-part definition, …
Son yıllarda Avrupa bütünleşmesi ve Avrupa Birliği'ne (AB) artan karşıtlık, Avrupa kuşkuculuğunu Avrupa siyasetinin temel bir olgusu olarak dikkate almayı gerektirmektedir. Avrupa kuşkuculuğunun ilk olarak 1980’lerde akademik alanda ve medyada kullanılmaya başlandığı görülmekted…
This dissertation offers an interpretation of French European policy during 1973 and 1974, a key juncture in French and world history. Those years witnessed the first oil crisis, which ended a thirty-year period of high economic growth in the West. The death of French President …