German Policy-Making and Eastern Enlargement of the European Union During the Ko Managing the Agenda?

by Collins, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780719063299
• ISBN10: 0719063299
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-18
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

The aim of this important new book is to investigate the internal and external influences of the East Central European states' negotiations to join the European Union on Germany's policy-making. The book begins by looking in depth at German European policy, moves on to consider domestic policy, the European Union and its relations with Germany and finally the negotiations of East Central European states with German bureaucracy.

Author Biography

Stephen Collins is Government and Regulatory Affairs Manager at Yahoo! Europe, an Internet media company.

Table of Contents

List of figures	ix
Acknowledgements	x
Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(37)
German European policy: from the inside looking out	3	(7)
German European policy: from the outside looking in	10	(6)
The Federal Republic and east central Europe	16	(5)
The notion of `agenda management'	21	(3)
Beyond the core executive	24	(3)
Framework for analysis and methodology	27	(11)
The domestic dimension of German EU enlargement policy	38	(60)
Domestic actors involved	39	(14)
Interministerial formal and informal coordination and cooperation: how effective?	53	(14)
Bund--Lander formal and informal coordination and cooperation: how effective?	67	(10)
Intra-Land and inter-Lander formal and informal coordination and cooperation: how effective?	77	(9)
Problems of agenda management?	86	(12)
The EU dimension	98	(29)
EU institutions' direct relations with the German Federal Ministries	101	(3)
EU institutions' direct relations with the German Lander	104	(9)
EU institutions' direct relations with the ECE states	113	(3)
Problems of agenda management?	116	(11)
The ECE dimension	127	(25)
ECE states' relations with the German core executive	130	(5)
ECE states' relations with the Federal Ministries	135	(3)
ECE states' relations with the German Lander	138	(6)
Problems of agenda management?	144	(8)
Conclusion	152	(22)
Summary of study and empirical results	152	(8)
A return to the central hypothesis	160	(5)
Contribution of the study to the academic field	165	(4)
Evaluation of the theoretical framework	169	(2)
Avenues for further research	171	(3)
Epilogue	174	(5)
EU and foreign policy goals	174	(1)
The domestic dimension	175	(1)
The European dimension	176	(1)
The central European dimension	177	(1)
Conclusion	178	(1)
Bibliography	179	(24)
Index	203