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PalgraveStudiesinEuropeanUnionPolitics Edited by: Michelle Egan, American University USA, Neill Nugent, Manchester MetropolitanUniversity,UK,WilliamPaterson,UniversityofBirmingham,UK Editorial Board: Christopher Hill, Cambridge, UK, Simon Hix, London School of Economics,UK,MarkPollack,TempleUniversity,USA,KalypsoNicolaïdis,Oxford UK, Morten Egeberg, University of Oslo, Norway, Amy Verdun, University of Victoria,Canada Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to announce the launch of a new book series on the European Union. Following on the sustained success of the acclaimed European UnionSeries,whichessentiallypublishesresearch-basedtextbooks,PalgraveStudiesin EuropeanUnionPoliticswillpublishresearch-drivenmonographs. The remit of the series is broadly defined, both in terms of subject and academic discipline. All topics of significance concerning the nature and operation of the European Union potentially fall within the scope of the series. The series is multidisciplinary to reflect the growing importance of the EU as a political and socialphenomenon.Wewillwelcomesubmissionsfromtheareasofpoliticalstudies, internationalrelations,politicaleconomy,publicandsocialpolicyandsociology Titlesinclude: DerekBeachandColetteMazzucelli(editors) LEADERSHIPINTHEBIGBANGSOFEUROPEANINTEGRATION MortenEgeberg(editor) MULTILEVELUNIONADMINISTRATION TheTransformationofExecutivePoliticsinEurope IsabelleGarzon REFORMINGTHECOMMONAGRICULTURALPOLICY HistoryofaParadigmChange HeatherGrabbe THEEU’STRANSFORMATIVEPOWER KatieVerlinLaatikainenandKarenE.Smith(editors) THEEUROPEANUNIONANDTHEUNITEDNATIONS HartmutMayerandHenriVogt(editors) ARESPONSIBLEEUROPE? 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CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS,England Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration Editedby Derek Beach AssociateProfessor,DepartmentofPoliticalScience UniversityofAarhus,Denmark and Colette Mazzucelli AssistantProfessor,DepartmentofHistoryandPoliticalScience MolloyCollege,RockvilleCentre,NY,USA AdjunctAssistantProfessor,CenterforGlobalAffairs,NewYorkUniversity Editorialmatter,Selection,IntroductionandConclusion©DerekBeach andColetteMazzucelli2006 Allremainingchapters©respectiveauthors2006 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2006 978-1-4039-9820-0 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. 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ISBN 978-1-349-54680-0 ISBN 978-0-230-59964-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230599642 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData LeadershipinthebigbangsofEuropeanintegration/editedbyDerekBeach andColetteMazzucelli. p. cm.“(PalgravestudiesinEuropeanUnionpolitics) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN 978-1-349-54680-0 1. EuropeanUnion. 2. Politicalleadership“EuropeanUnioncountries. I. Beach,Derek. II. Mazzucelli,Colette. III. Series. JN30.L392006 341.242(cid:2)2“dc22 2006045748 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 To our students throughout the world – who inspire us to learn, and to Europe’s leaders – past, present and future This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofTables xi ListofFigures xii Foreword xiii H.E. Ambassador Carlos Westendorp Preface xv Professor Ezra Suleiman Acknowledgments xvii NotesontheContributors xix 1 Introduction 1 Derek Beach and Colette Mazzucelli 1.1 Constitutionalreformorthe‘bigbangs’ofEuropean integration 1 1.2 IntergovernmentalconferencesintheEuropeanUnion 3 1.3 Theoreticalorientation–whenandwhy leadershipmatters 5 1.4 Whyleadershipisnecessary 6 1.5 TheprovisionofleadershipinEUconstitutional negotiations 9 1.6 Leadershipresources 10 1.7 Theimpactofthenegotiatingcontext 13 1.8 Atypologyofleadershipstrategies 16 1.9 Summary 19 1.10 Outlineofthebook 20 2 TheEUPresidency:Franceinthe2000IGC 22 Jonas Tallberg 2.1 Introduction 22 2.2 PresidencyleadershipinEUnegotiations 24 2.3 LeadershipresourcesoftheEUPresidency 26 2.4 Negotiatingcontext 27 2.5 FranceandIGC2000 29 vii viii Contents 2.6 Thepowerofthechair:assessingprocess andoutcome 33 2.7 Conclusion 36 3 Drawing Lessons in the Chair: Assessing the Dutch Presidency’sImpactduringtheMaastrichtandAmsterdam Conferences 38 Colette Mazzucelli 3.1 Introduction 38 3.2 Dutchpreferences 40 3.3 TheresourcesoftheDutchPresidencyintheMaastricht andAmsterdamIGCs 40 3.4 ThenegotiationcontextfromMaastrichttoAmsterdam 44 3.5 TheDutchPresidency’simpactonTreatyreform 46 3.6 Conclusions 55 4 The EU Presidency – Comparing the Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003–04 Intergovernmental Conference 58 Ben Crum 4.1 Introduction 58 4.2 Thecontextofthe2003–04IGC 59 4.3 Thenegotiationofthe2003–04IGC 60 4.4 Conclusion 72 5 OilingtheWheelsofCompromise:TheCouncilSecretariatin the1996–97and2003–4IGCs 76 Derek Beach 5.1 Introduction 76 5.2 ThepreferencesandresourcesoftheCouncilSecretariat 77 5.3 TheroleandimpactoftheCouncilSecretariat 79 5.4 Conclusions 90 6 LeaderorBystander?TheEuropeanCommissionandEU TreatyReform 94 Hussein Kassim and Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos 6.1 Introduction 94 6.2 TheorizingCommissioninfluenceinEUtreatyreform 96 6.3 TheCommissionasaleader 99 6.4 TheCommissionandTreatyreforminanhistorical perspective 102 6.5 Conclusion 111 Contents ix 7 AFormalOutsiderBecomesanEffectivePlayer: TheEuropeanParliamentintheNegotiation oftheTreatyofAmsterdamandtheConstitutional Treaty 115 Andreas Maurer 7.1 Supranationalparliamentarisminamulti-levelpolity 115 7.2 The European Parliament’s own preferences in constitutionalreform 116 7.3 Rethinking the scope of the European Parliament’s leadershiproleatIGCs 117 7.4 ExpectationsconcerningtheEuropeanParliament’s leadershiprole 119 7.5 TheparticipationoftheEuropeanParliamentinthe 1996–97IGC 122 7.6 Influencingtheoutcomeofthe1996–97IGC 124 7.7 TheEuropeanParliament’sstrategiesforthe2002–04 ConventionandIGC 126 7.8 The2002–04Convention–IGCprocess 126 7.9 TheparticipationoftheEPattheIGC2003–04 131 7.10 Conclusions 131 8 BigversusSmall:SharedLeadershipintheEUandPower PoliticsintheConvention 134 Simone Bunse, Paul Magnette and Kalypso Nicolaïdis 8.1 Introduction 134 8.2 TheEU’sinstitutionalbalance 135 8.3 PowerpoliticsintheConvention:thesmallversus bigdivide 141 8.4 Strategiesandoutcomes 148 8.5 Conclusion 155 9 CooperativeHegemon,MissingEngineorImprobableCore? ExplainingFrench–GermanInfluenceinEuropeanTreaty Reform 158 Colette Mazzucelli, Ulrike Guérot and Almut Metz 9.1 Introduction 158 9.2 FrenchandGermanpreferencesinEUconstitutional negotiations 160 9.3 TheresourcesofFranceandGermany 162 9.4 French–GermanleadershipinEuropeanconstitutional negotiations 167 9.5 Closingremarks 175
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