Bellicist integration? The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers
Veröffentlichungsdatum
2022-11-04
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Zusammenfassung
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’.
Schlagwörter
Core state powers
;
European Union
;
Integration theory
;
State-building
;
Ukraine
;
War
Verlag
Taylor & Francis
Fachbereich
Dokumenttyp
Artikel/Aufsatz
Zeitschrift/Sammelwerk
Band
29
Heft
12
Startseite
1885
Endseite
1900
Zweitveröffentlichung
Ja
Dokumentversion
Postprint
Sprache
Englisch
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