The EU's State-Building Puzzle

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📋 Course Outline

  1. EU political development puzzle
  2. Limits of integration theories
  3. Security and market logics
  4. EU law state and security gap
  5. Monetary union without fiscal capacity
  6. Migration policy and border control
  7. Schengen, asylum, and Frontex
  8. COVID-19 and fiscal union

📖 1. EU political development puzzle

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Legal colossus : A legal colossus describes the EU’s dominance through law and courts despite limited ability to centralize other core state capacities.
  • acquis communautaire : The acquis communautaire is the large body of EU law that gives the Union extensive legal authority over citizens and firms.
  • State-building lens : The state-building lens is an approach that explains political development by tracking historical processes that build capacity and centralize power.
  • Weberian state : A Weberian state is a model of political authority characterized by centralized coercive power and bureaucratic administration.

📝 Essential Points

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Anteprima del quiz

1. What is the main puzzle highlighted by the EU's political development?

2. What does the state-building lens emphasize when explaining the EU's political development?

3. Why did early integration scholarship often avoid using a state-building lens for the EU?

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Anteprima delle flashcard

EU political puzzle — core issue?

Imbalance between legal authority and capacities

Limits of integration theories — focus?

Negotiation and governance, not state-building

Security vs market logics — driver?

Security: military threats; Market: economic gains

EU law state gap — key feature?

Extensive legal authority, weak coercive capacity

Eurozone fiscal capacity — absence?

No centralized fiscal tools for crisis adjustment

Migration policy — main challenge?

Lack of EU enforcement power, reliance on national sovereignty

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