Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-21
The EU Presidency: France in the 2000 IGC....Pages 22-37
Drawing Lessons in the Chair: Assessing the Dutch Presidency’s Impact during the Maastricht and Amsterdam Conferences....Pages 38-57
The EU Presidency – Comparing the Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003–04 Intergovernmental Conference....Pages 58-75
Oiling the Wheels of Compromise: The Council Secretariat in the 1996–97 and 2003–4 IGCs....Pages 76-93
Leader or Bystander? The European Commission and EU Treaty Reform....Pages 94-114
A Formal Outsider Becomes an Effective Player: The European Parliament in the Negotiation of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Constitutional Treaty....Pages 115-133
Big versus Small: Shared Leadership in the EU and Power Politics in the Convention....Pages 134-157
Cooperative Hegemon, Missing Engine or Improbable Core? Explaining French–German Influence in European Treaty Reform....Pages 158-177
Britain and the European Union: A Laggard Leader?....Pages 178-200
The Constitutional Treaty and Poland – A New Laggard in the EU?....Pages 201-218
Is There Anyone in Charge? Leadership in EU Constitutional Negotiations....Pages 219-226
Conclusions....Pages 227-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-279