Alex Warleigh‐lack
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4381471 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alex Warleigh‐lack |
| NOMBRES | Alex |
| APELLIDO | Warleigh‐lack |
| FIRMA | LACK A W |
| AFILIACIONES | United Nations University Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 110 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Differentiated integration in the European Union
In this contribution I examine three regions outside Europe, all of which have used forms of differentiated integration as a means to solve otherwise intractable problems and/or export their policy preferences, ideals and bargains to key external actors. I argue that if we examine the European Union (EU) as one case of regional integration/regionalism among many, rather than a unique entity, we can develop a more nuanced view of differentiated in…
Greening Integration Theory
In this article, I set out the normative contours of a green approach to integration theory. The aim is not to generate a grand theory, but rather to establish a means to critique and evaluate integration processes from a green perspective. First, I set out in more detail the metatheoretical issues at play in shifting from a conventional understanding of theory and its purposes to a green perspective, presenting Stoker’s concept of ‘evaluative th…
Awkward states and regional organisations
Greatly exaggerated’
In a recent piece in this journal Jørgensen and Valbjørn develop a typology of intellectual dialogue across fields that yields rather negative conclusions about the prospects for sustainable dialogue between ‘European studies’ and the ‘new regionalism’. This response disputes this pessimistic conclusion. First, it is argued that while their derivation of models of dialogue is impressive, it is nonetheless incomplete. Using Jørgensen and Valbjørn’…
Greening EU Studies
This article responds to Ian Manners' challenge to scholars of EU studies to engage with a broader range of theoretical perspectives and projects than is conventional. Specifically, it investigates the benefits of such an epistemological shift as that called for by Manners, critiquing the condition of the mainstream in EU studies—which is still somewhat unreflexively defined by dominant norms of IR scholarship despite the development of the field…
Usages of Europe’ and Europeanisation
This article explores the recent regionalisation of Swedish governance – both policy and structure – in order to explore some of the aspects of research on Europeanisation that scholars in the field have recently signalled as especially problematic. We pay particular attention to the role of political cleavages, conflict and contestation, and to the construction and use of policy discourses surrounding European integration as a means of affecting…
Spillover in a soft policy era? Evidence from the Open Method of Co-ordination in education and training
In this paper we re-examine early neofunctionalist concepts of spillover, spill-around and build-up, and apply them to the case of the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) in education and training policy. We show that even an EU at 'the end of integration' can bind its Member States more closely together over time. In this way, we add to recent analyses of unanticipated spillover in 'hard' policies by showing that such can be the outcome of 'soft'…
Greening the European Union for legitimacy? A cautionary reading of Europe 2020
Several scholars have argued that environment policy may provide a way for the EU to legitimize itself while producing genuinely useful public policy. This paper argues that such an aim is laudable, but that the EU is not yet ideationally equipped to tale such a step. The EU's key strategic document for the next decade, Europe 2020, is analyzed from two key "green" perspectives – environmentalism and the more demanding perspective of ecologism – …
Greening the European Union and Europe 2020
Rethinking EU Studies
This article introduces the special issue on the contribution of comparative regionalism/regional integration studies to the rethinking of EU studies. It sets out what we consider to be a danger for EU studies, namely its tendency towards introversion, and argue for a sustained engagement with the studies of other global regions as a means to avoid this. We draw on political science and psychology to set out a suitable framework for comparing glo…
Across the EU Studies–New Regionalism Frontier
This article notes a lack of communication between two broad schools of scholarship on regional integration: EU studies and analyses of the ‘new regionalism’. It is argued that the existence of this divide, which is perpetrated by proponents of both schools, is an impediment to the elaboration of useful theory as well as being a missed opportunity. The benefits and problems of using the EU as a comparator in studies of regionalism are assessed. W…
Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Politics
This introductory article investigates the relationship between interdisciplinarity and the study of politics, drawing on the symposium papers. Beginning with a brief historiography of the study of politics/political science, we then explain what we understand by ‘interdisciplinarity’. Next, we explore the potential benefits of an interdisciplinary approach in political research, and also identify some of its shortcomings and potential pitfalls. …
Towards a conceptual framework for regionalisation
This paper argues that the divide between 'new' and 'old' regionalisms in international politics is increasingly seen as exaggerated, but that the conceptual implications of this non-difference have yet to be taken seriously. The attempt to build a new body of theory to explain and describe recent forms of region-building—the 'New Regionalist Approach'—is mistaken, and falsely sets up classical integration theory as an Other in an act of auto-def…
From an Ethics of Integration to an Ethics of Participation
Prevailing conceptions of political ethics largely centre on nation states and a world order composed of them. This article asks whether the European Union (EU) can be seen to challenge such conventional thinking. If, as is now commonly held, the EU has a polity-like structure which nonetheless lacks some of the features of conventional statehood, then our concepts of public ethics may need to be re-cast. We take citizenship as a case study in or…
Across the EU Studies–New Regionalism Frontier
This article notes a lack of communication between two broad schools of scholarship on regional integration: EU studies and analyses of the ‘new regionalism’. It is argued that the existence of this divide, which is perpetrated by proponents of both schools, is an impediment to the elaboration of useful theory as well as being a missed opportunity. The benefits and problems of using the EU as a comparator in studies of regionalism are assessed. W…
Differentiated integration in the European Union
In this contribution I examine three regions outside Europe, all of which have used forms of differentiated integration as a means to solve otherwise intractable problems and/or export their policy preferences, ideals and bargains to key external actors. I argue that if we examine the European Union (EU) as one case of regional integration/regionalism among many, rather than a unique entity, we can develop a more nuanced view of differentiated in…
Rethinking EU Studies
This article introduces the special issue on the contribution of comparative regionalism/regional integration studies to the rethinking of EU studies. It sets out what we consider to be a danger for EU studies, namely its tendency towards introversion, and argue for a sustained engagement with the studies of other global regions as a means to avoid this. We draw on political science and psychology to set out a suitable framework for comparing glo…
Towards a conceptual framework for regionalisation
This paper argues that the divide between 'new' and 'old' regionalisms in international politics is increasingly seen as exaggerated, but that the conceptual implications of this non-difference have yet to be taken seriously. The attempt to build a new body of theory to explain and describe recent forms of region-building—the 'New Regionalist Approach'—is mistaken, and falsely sets up classical integration theory as an Other in an act of auto-def…
From an Ethics of Integration to an Ethics of Participation
Prevailing conceptions of political ethics largely centre on nation states and a world order composed of them. This article asks whether the European Union (EU) can be seen to challenge such conventional thinking. If, as is now commonly held, the EU has a polity-like structure which nonetheless lacks some of the features of conventional statehood, then our concepts of public ethics may need to be re-cast. We take citizenship as a case study in or…
Usages of Europe’ and Europeanisation
This article explores the recent regionalisation of Swedish governance – both policy and structure – in order to explore some of the aspects of research on Europeanisation that scholars in the field have recently signalled as especially problematic. We pay particular attention to the role of political cleavages, conflict and contestation, and to the construction and use of policy discourses surrounding European integration as a means of affecting…
Spillover in a soft policy era? Evidence from the Open Method of Co-ordination in education and training
In this paper we re-examine early neofunctionalist concepts of spillover, spill-around and build-up, and apply them to the case of the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) in education and training policy. We show that even an EU at 'the end of integration' can bind its Member States more closely together over time. In this way, we add to recent analyses of unanticipated spillover in 'hard' policies by showing that such can be the outcome of 'soft'…
Greening the European Union for legitimacy? A cautionary reading of Europe 2020
Several scholars have argued that environment policy may provide a way for the EU to legitimize itself while producing genuinely useful public policy. This paper argues that such an aim is laudable, but that the EU is not yet ideationally equipped to tale such a step. The EU's key strategic document for the next decade, Europe 2020, is analyzed from two key "green" perspectives – environmentalism and the more demanding perspective of ecologism – …
Awkward states and regional organisations
Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Politics
This introductory article investigates the relationship between interdisciplinarity and the study of politics, drawing on the symposium papers. Beginning with a brief historiography of the study of politics/political science, we then explain what we understand by ‘interdisciplinarity’. Next, we explore the potential benefits of an interdisciplinary approach in political research, and also identify some of its shortcomings and potential pitfalls. …
Greatly exaggerated’
In a recent piece in this journal Jørgensen and Valbjørn develop a typology of intellectual dialogue across fields that yields rather negative conclusions about the prospects for sustainable dialogue between ‘European studies’ and the ‘new regionalism’. This response disputes this pessimistic conclusion. First, it is argued that while their derivation of models of dialogue is impressive, it is nonetheless incomplete. Using Jørgensen and Valbjørn’…
Greening EU Studies
This article responds to Ian Manners' challenge to scholars of EU studies to engage with a broader range of theoretical perspectives and projects than is conventional. Specifically, it investigates the benefits of such an epistemological shift as that called for by Manners, critiquing the condition of the mainstream in EU studies—which is still somewhat unreflexively defined by dominant norms of IR scholarship despite the development of the field…
Greening Integration Theory
In this article, I set out the normative contours of a green approach to integration theory. The aim is not to generate a grand theory, but rather to establish a means to critique and evaluate integration processes from a green perspective. First, I set out in more detail the metatheoretical issues at play in shifting from a conventional understanding of theory and its purposes to a green perspective, presenting Stoker’s concept of ‘evaluative th…
From an Ethics of Integration to an Ethics of Participation
Prevailing conceptions of political ethics largely centre on nation states and a world order composed of them. This article asks whether the European Union (EU) can be seen to challenge such conventional thinking. If, as is now commonly held, the EU has a polity-like structure which nonetheless lacks some of the features of conventional statehood, then our concepts of public ethics may need to be re-cast. We take citizenship as a case study in or…
Towards a conceptual framework for regionalisation
This paper argues that the divide between 'new' and 'old' regionalisms in international politics is increasingly seen as exaggerated, but that the conceptual implications of this non-difference have yet to be taken seriously. The attempt to build a new body of theory to explain and describe recent forms of region-building—the 'New Regionalist Approach'—is mistaken, and falsely sets up classical integration theory as an Other in an act of auto-def…
Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Politics
This introductory article investigates the relationship between interdisciplinarity and the study of politics, drawing on the symposium papers. Beginning with a brief historiography of the study of politics/political science, we then explain what we understand by ‘interdisciplinarity’. Next, we explore the potential benefits of an interdisciplinary approach in political research, and also identify some of its shortcomings and potential pitfalls. …
Greening the European Union for legitimacy? A cautionary reading of Europe 2020
Several scholars have argued that environment policy may provide a way for the EU to legitimize itself while producing genuinely useful public policy. This paper argues that such an aim is laudable, but that the EU is not yet ideationally equipped to tale such a step. The EU's key strategic document for the next decade, Europe 2020, is analyzed from two key "green" perspectives – environmentalism and the more demanding perspective of ecologism – …
Greening the European Union and Europe 2020
Rethinking EU Studies
This article introduces the special issue on the contribution of comparative regionalism/regional integration studies to the rethinking of EU studies. It sets out what we consider to be a danger for EU studies, namely its tendency towards introversion, and argue for a sustained engagement with the studies of other global regions as a means to avoid this. We draw on political science and psychology to set out a suitable framework for comparing glo…
Across the EU Studies–New Regionalism Frontier
This article notes a lack of communication between two broad schools of scholarship on regional integration: EU studies and analyses of the ‘new regionalism’. It is argued that the existence of this divide, which is perpetrated by proponents of both schools, is an impediment to the elaboration of useful theory as well as being a missed opportunity. The benefits and problems of using the EU as a comparator in studies of regionalism are assessed. W…
Spillover in a soft policy era? Evidence from the Open Method of Co-ordination in education and training
In this paper we re-examine early neofunctionalist concepts of spillover, spill-around and build-up, and apply them to the case of the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) in education and training policy. We show that even an EU at 'the end of integration' can bind its Member States more closely together over time. In this way, we add to recent analyses of unanticipated spillover in 'hard' policies by showing that such can be the outcome of 'soft'…
Greening EU Studies
This article responds to Ian Manners' challenge to scholars of EU studies to engage with a broader range of theoretical perspectives and projects than is conventional. Specifically, it investigates the benefits of such an epistemological shift as that called for by Manners, critiquing the condition of the mainstream in EU studies—which is still somewhat unreflexively defined by dominant norms of IR scholarship despite the development of the field…
Usages of Europe’ and Europeanisation
This article explores the recent regionalisation of Swedish governance – both policy and structure – in order to explore some of the aspects of research on Europeanisation that scholars in the field have recently signalled as especially problematic. We pay particular attention to the role of political cleavages, conflict and contestation, and to the construction and use of policy discourses surrounding European integration as a means of affecting…
Awkward states and regional organisations
Greatly exaggerated’
In a recent piece in this journal Jørgensen and Valbjørn develop a typology of intellectual dialogue across fields that yields rather negative conclusions about the prospects for sustainable dialogue between ‘European studies’ and the ‘new regionalism’. This response disputes this pessimistic conclusion. First, it is argued that while their derivation of models of dialogue is impressive, it is nonetheless incomplete. Using Jørgensen and Valbjørn’…
Greening Integration Theory
In this article, I set out the normative contours of a green approach to integration theory. The aim is not to generate a grand theory, but rather to establish a means to critique and evaluate integration processes from a green perspective. First, I set out in more detail the metatheoretical issues at play in shifting from a conventional understanding of theory and its purposes to a green perspective, presenting Stoker’s concept of ‘evaluative th…
Differentiated integration in the European Union
In this contribution I examine three regions outside Europe, all of which have used forms of differentiated integration as a means to solve otherwise intractable problems and/or export their policy preferences, ideals and bargains to key external actors. I argue that if we examine the European Union (EU) as one case of regional integration/regionalism among many, rather than a unique entity, we can develop a more nuanced view of differentiated in…
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