Bellicist integration? The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers
File | Description | Size | Format | Login |
---|---|---|---|---|
Genschel_Bellicist integration The war in Ukraine the European Union and core state powers 2022.pdf | 2.19 MB | Adobe PDF | Embargoed until May 5, 2024 |
Authors: | Genschel, Philipp ![]() |
Abstract: | Kelemen and McNamara claim that the imbalance between the EU’s strong regulatory authority and weak capacity in core state powers reflects its peaceful origins: the EU lacks coercive force, fiscal autonomy and administrative grip because it never had to confront a serious military threat. Will the emergence of such a threat suffice to correct the imbalance? As I argue theoretically, military threats have ambiguous effects on integration. They can fuel center-formation and capacity-building, as Kelemen and McNamara suggest, but also block it. As I show empirically, the military threat posed by the Russian attack of Ukraine in February 2022 has triggered very little EU capacity-building so far. I observe almost no centralization of core state powers but rather a strengthening of national powers with the support of EU institutions: ‘bellicist integration’ rather than ‘bellicist state-building’. |
Keywords: | Core state powers; European Union; Integration theory; State-building; Ukraine; War | Issue Date: | 4-Nov-2022 | Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | Journal/Edited collection: | Journal of European Public Policy | Start page: | 1885 | End page: | 1900 | Note: | 12 | Band: | 29 | Type: | Artikel/Aufsatz | ISSN: | 1350-1763 | Secondary publication: | yes | Document version: | Postprint | DOI: | 10.26092/elib/2452 | URN: | urn:nbn:de:gbv:46-elib71312 | Faculty: | Fachbereich 08: Sozialwissenschaften (FB 08) |
Appears in Collections: | Forschungsdokumente |
Page view(s)
19
checked on Sep 26, 2023
Download(s)
3
checked on Sep 26, 2023
Google ScholarTM
Check
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons License