This book offers a systematic analysis of political leadership in the European Union. It considers the leadership of various EU institutions and in selected policy domains. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of European Integration.
The challenges that have been facing the European Union in recent years have given rise to the question: who leads the EU? This book offers a systematic analysis of political leadership in the EU. This volume offers a theoretical and conceptual analysis of political leadership in the EU. It deals with questions such as what kind of leadership is there in the different domains (such as climate change or central banking). It also examines how various EU institutions (European Commission, European Parliament) exert or have exerted leadership. Furthermore, it examines the role of the presidents of some of these institutions, such as the European Commission the European Council, the European Central Bank, but also of selected national leaders. Although the book does not advance a single leadership concept, the findings of the individual case studies show that the EU is by no means leaderless. The chapters originally published as a special issue in the Journal of European Integration.
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1 Political leadership in the European Union: an introduction |
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2 Reconsidering Jacques Delors' leadership of the European Union |
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3 Setting Europe's agenda: the Commission presidents and political leadership |
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4 Policy leadership in the European Commission: the regulation of EU mobile roaming charges |
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5 Leadership in the European Council: an assessment of Herman Van Rompuy's presidency |
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6 The standing president of the European Council: intergovernmental or supranational leadership? |
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7 Transforming representative democracy in the EU? The role of the European Parliament |
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8 Political leadership of the European Central Bank |
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9 The paradoxes of legitimate EU leadership. An analysis of the multi-level leadership of Angela Merkel and Alexis Tsipras during the euro crisis |
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10 Assessing the European Union's global climate change leadership: from Copenhagen to the Paris Agreement |
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Ingeborg Tömmel is Professor Emeritus and Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics and Policies at the University of Osnabrück, Germany, and founding Director of the Osnabrück Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in European Studies.
Amy Verdun is Professor of Political Science and Jean Monnet Chair Ad Personam. She is the Founding Director of the European Studies Program and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Victoria, Canada.
