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The Influence of International Organisations on the European Union: A Political Science Perspective

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This essay applies a political science perspective to the ‘outside-in’ problématique of international organisations and their normative impact on the EU and its legal order. The authors show how such an impact varies across policy fields, international organisations and time. The authors argue that the distribution of competences between Member States and EU institutions is an explanatory factor which is often complemented by the configuration of policy preferences among the larger—or sometimes a wider group of—EU Member States. In order to better determine the likely impact, one needs to know about the origin of specific international norms and the policy cycles producing them, i.e. agenda-setters, policy-makers, decision-makers, implementers. The authors consider a sequential analysis to be a fruitful avenue of inquiry, and thus provide a theoretical foundation for part of the empirical work carried out in the case-study chapters of the book.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Manners 2002.

  2. 2.

    Gourevitch 1978; Hintze 1975.

  3. 3.

    Axelrod 1984; Wendt 1999.

  4. 4.

    Keohane 1989.

  5. 5.

    Finnemore 1996; Barnett and Finnemore 2004.

  6. 6.

    Waltz 1979; Mearsheimer 1995.

  7. 7.

    Bull 1977.

  8. 8.

    Keohane 1988, 383.

  9. 9.

    Scharpf 1997, 39.

  10. 10.

    Thelen and Steinmo 1992, 9.

  11. 11.

    Dai 2005, 366.

  12. 12.

    Abbott and Snidal 2000, 428.

  13. 13.

    Börzel 2005, 52; Cortell and Davis 1996, 453.

  14. 14.

    Hall and Taylor 1996, 15.

  15. 15.

    Barnett and Finnemore 2004, 7; Finnemore 1996, 333.

  16. 16.

    Barnett and Finnemore 2004, 3.

  17. 17.

    Johnston 2001, 502.

  18. 18.

    Bernstein 2002, 206.

  19. 19.

    Aspinwall and Schneider 2000, 16.

  20. 20.

    Thelen and Steinmo 1992, 3.

  21. 21.

    Immergut 1998, 28; March and Olsen 1998, 954.

  22. 22.

    Ikenberry 1994, 27; Thelen 1999, 392.

  23. 23.

    Thelen 1999, 394; Immergut 1998, 28.

  24. 24.

    Ikenberry 1994, 14.

  25. 25.

    Schmidt 2008, 305.

  26. 26.

    Schmidt 2008, 306.

  27. 27.

    Schimmelfennig 2001, 63.

  28. 28.

    Risse 2000, 19, 33; Johnston 2001, 479.

  29. 29.

    Costa and Jørgensen (eds) 2012.

  30. 30.

    Riddervold and Sjursen 2012.

  31. 31.

    Riddervold and Sjursen 2012. See also Riddervold 2011.

  32. 32.

    Wetzel 2012.

  33. 33.

    See also Chap. 11 of this volume.

  34. 34.

    Koops 2012.

  35. 35.

    Costa 2010.

  36. 36.

    Slaughter 2004.

  37. 37.

    Christou and Simpson 2012; Schumacher 2012; Wetzel 2012.

  38. 38.

    Groenleer 2012; Costa 2008, 2010.

  39. 39.

    Underdal 2004, 29, 2002, 26.

  40. 40.

    Christou and Simpson 2012; Delreux et al. 2012.

  41. 41.

    Riddervold and Sjursen 2012.

  42. 42.

    See also Chap. 7 of this volume.

  43. 43.

    Young 2012.

  44. 44.

    Koops 2012.

  45. 45.

    Léonard and Kaunert 2012.

  46. 46.

    Peterson 1995.

  47. 47.

    Jönsson et al. 1998, 328.

  48. 48.

    Zito 2001, 586; Peterson and Bomberg 1999, 31.

  49. 49.

    Hix 1998, 40.

  50. 50.

    Costa and Jørgensen 2012; Costa 2008.

  51. 51.

    Christou and Simpson 2012.

  52. 52.

    Wetzel 2012.

  53. 53.

    Groenleer 2012.

  54. 54.

    Koops 2012.

  55. 55.

    Schumacher 2012. See also Chap. 6 of this volume.

  56. 56.

    Costa 2008.

  57. 57.

    Costa 2010.

  58. 58.

    Young 2012.

  59. 59.

    Young 2012.

  60. 60.

    See also Chap. 9 of this volume.

  61. 61.

    Costa and Meier forthcoming.

  62. 62.

    Wetzel 2012.

  63. 63.

    Christou and Simpson 2012.

  64. 64.

    Riddervold and Sjursen 2012.

  65. 65.

    Léonard and Kaunert 2012.

  66. 66.

    Koops 2012.

  67. 67.

    Young 2012.

  68. 68.

    Christou and Simpson 2012.

  69. 69.

    Schimmelfennig 2001; Wetzel 2012.

  70. 70.

    Groenleer 2012.

  71. 71.

    Emerson et al. (2011).

  72. 72.

    Karns and Mingst (1990).

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Costa, O., Jørgensen, K.E. (2013). The Influence of International Organisations on the European Union: A Political Science Perspective. In: Wessel, R., Blockmans, S. (eds) Between Autonomy and Dependence. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-903-0_4

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