Adapting to European Integration: Small States and the European Union - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0582286999 ISBN 13: 9780582286993

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Adapting to European Integration describes how the political institutions in eight small member states and two non-members responded to the internal and external demands springing from the process of European integration in general and EC/EU membership in particular. The study makes a distinction between governmental/administrative adaptation, political adaptation and strategic adaptation. The chapters focus, in the first instance, on the governmental/administrative responses at the level of central government, the organisational adjustments and the changes in institutional capacity to meet the new challenges. The authors also look at the willingness of the political decision-makers to internalise the EC/EU dimension in domestic policy making and the way in which the country's own history as well as the attitude towards European integration facilitate or hinder adaptation and change.

About this title

About the Author:

Hanf is based at the Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Ben Soetendorp is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science, Leyden University. His previous publications include "Foreign Policy in the European Union: Theory, History, and Practice" (1999), and "Adapting to European Integration: Small States and the European Union" (co-edited with Ken Hanf, 1998).

Ben Soetendorp is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science, Leyden University. His previous publications include "Foreign Policy in the European Union: Theory, History, and Practice" (1999), and "Adapting to European Integration: Small States and the European Union" (co-edited with Ken Hanf, 1998).

Hanf is based at the Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0582286999
• ISBN 13: 9780582286993
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 218
• Editor: Hanf Kenneth