Anand Menon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anand Menon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anand |
| FAMILY NAME | Menon |
| SIGNATURE | MENON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0304-6528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 346 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties
Party competition in Great Britain increasingly revolves around social or ‘cultural’ issues as much as it does around the economic issues that took centre stage when class was assumed to be dominant. We use data from surveys of members of parliament, party members and voters to explore how this shift has affected the internal coalitions of the Labour and Conservative Parties – and to provide a fresh test of ‘May’s Law’. We find a considerable dis…
Taking back control: Sovereignty as strategy in Brexit politics
Whether sovereignty is a ‘real’ or an ‘imagined’ concept, it is fair to say that it captured the public imagination in a very real way during the 2016 referendum on European Union (EU) membership. A commonly cited reason for leaving the EU was ‘the principle that decisions about the UK should be made in the UK’. It is unpacking the potency of sovereignty – as a longstanding form of ‘democratic nostalgia’ within UK politics in opposition to a ‘fai…
Bridging the Gaps: Linking Research to Public Debates and Policy-Making on Migration and Integration. Edited by Martin Ruhs, Kristof Tamas, and Joakim Palme
This is an important, interesting, and timely book. What is more—and unlike so many edited collections—it actually does what it says on the tin, exploring the interplay between social science research, public debates, and policy making in the area of international migration and immigration from a number of different perspectives. Broadly speaking, the authors set themselves three objectives. First, to conceptualize relationships between research,…
Introduction: World politics 100 years after the Paris peace conference
One hundred years ago the Treaty of Versailles, the centrepiece of a set of treaties and agreements collectively known as the Paris peace settlements, was signed in the glittering Hall of Mirrors in the former home of France's Sun King. For some, the war those settlements brought to an end was a distinct period in international relations, one dominated for the preceding century by a European state system that had endured since the Middle Ages.1 W…
Europe: Between Dream and Reality
European political development since the Treaty of Versailles has gone through four phases. The interwar period was a time of democratic weakness and ethnic conflict that culminated in the Second World War. What followed was a period of division and yet also integration, particularly in western Europe. Western Europeans sought to transcend the nation-state through the promotion of the rule of law. The end of the Cold War suggested the victory of …
In memoriam: Jack Hayward (1931–2017)
We mourn the passing of Jack Hayward. Jack was a member of the Editorial Board of West European Politics from its inception in 1978 until his death. He was a close friend of Vincent Wright, foundin
Introduction: The UK and the European Union
Brexit: Initial Reflections
Even though the opinion polling before the British referendum on membership of the European Union showed a narrow gap between the two sides, the actual result—a vote to leave—on the morning of 24 June 2016 came as a surprise to many. Yet in truth both the referendum and its outcome had deep roots in British politics. In this article we cast an eye over the history of Britain's relationship with the EU, which has long been marked by a mixture of a…
Wake up, Europe
We live in a world of rapid transition. Yet while, in the United States, it is hard to escape discussions of the changing international system and its implications, such debates are largely absent in Europe. This is all the more serious in that Europe is both more vulnerable than the USA to the myriad new threats on the horizon and less well equipped to confront them. We outline the nature of the challenges confronting Europe, and suggest that th…
Opting out of the European Union: Diplomacy, sovereignty and European integration. By Rebecca Adler-Nissen
I enjoyed this book very much. In it, Rebecca Adler-Nissen argues that opt-outs from European integration, as epitomized by the Danes and the British, are not as straightforwardly harmful to either European integration or to the member states involved as much of the extant literature has tended to claim. She rightly argues that existing approaches to European integration tend to struggle to deal with the existence of differentiation (most notably…
The JCMS Annual Review Lecture Divided and Declining? E urope in a Changing World
The EU and Ukraine
EU members did not take long-standing Russian positions seriously, assumed any neighbour would be eager to sign up for ‘more Europe’, and have failed to generate a viable reply to Moscow's intervention
Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe
Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe?." West European Politics, 38(1), pp. 258–259
The European Union: Wider and Deeper
What is the relationship between widening and deepening in the European Union (EU)? Does the addition of new member states affect the process of centralization – that is to say, whether and how mem
Wider and deeper? Enlargement and integration in the European Union
This contribution presents an institutionalist account of the conditions under which widening either impedes or encourages deepening. We argue that the impact of widening on deepening depends on the position of the enlargement state relative to the preference distributions of existing member states. Also, we argue that while expanding to a laggard may in some cases create short-term gridlock, it may also provide the impetus for institutional chan…
European Union: Integration and Enlargement
Defence Policy and the Logic of ‘High Politics’
The European Union and Emerging Powers in the 21st Century: How Europe Can Shape a New Global Order
Edited by Thomas Renard and Sven Biscop Ashgate, Aldershot, 2012, 226 pp., £55.00, ISBN 978-1-4094-1956-3 (hbk) I very much enjoyed reading this book. The individual contributions provide penetrati
Germany, Poland and the Common Security and Defence Policy: Converging Security and Defence Perspectives in an Enlarged EU
Germany, Poland and the Common Security and Defence Policy: Converging Security and Defence Perspectives in an Enlarged EU." West European Politics, 37(1), pp. 222–223
The Oxford Handbook of the European Union
This is an authoritative, one-volume, and independent treatment of the history, functioning, and nature of the European integration. Written by leading scholars, it covers the major institutions, policies, and events in the history of integration, whilst also providing a guide to the major theoretical approaches that have been used to study it over time. By bringing together such a distinguished cast covering such a wide array of themes, the publ…
Problematic Partners: De Gaulle, Thatcher, and Their Impact
This title brings together numerous acknowledged specialists in their field to provide a comprehensive and clear assessment of the nature, evolution, workings, and impact of European integration.
Neoclassical Realism and Defence Reform in Post-Cold War Europe
European Defence Policy from Lisbon to Libya
The EU's inactivity in the face of a crisis with obvious security implications for its member states has led to anguished soul searching
Power, Institutions and the CSDP: The Promise of Institutionalist Theory
The common security and defence policy (CSDP) represents an institutionalized attempt on the part of European Union Member States to respond to the security challenges they confront. As such, it is perhaps self‐evident that theoretical approaches that focus on the role of institutions in shaping social life should have something to say about its nature, role and impact. This article argues that not only can institutionalist approaches enhance our…
Security Co‐operation beyond the Nation‐State: The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy
The article presents a critical overview of research on the European Union's Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP). Topics discussed include the evolving nature of the CSDP and the shift in its focus from European to global concerns, achievements of the CSDP, the debate on the performance and effectiveness of the CSDP, and theoretical frameworks within which to view the CSDP, among them international relations (IR) theories and an institution…
The principal-agent approach and the study of the European Union: Promise Unfulfilled
The principal-agent model holds great promise for understanding the institutional complexities of the EU and for moving beyond the sterile debate between intergovernmentalism and neofunctionalism. As yet, however, scholars have failed to exploit the insights that this construct affords. After a brief discussion of the principal-agent model, this article offers a critical examination of the way that the principal-agent approach has been deployed b…
Politics like any other? Comparative politics, international relations and the study of the EU
This article disputes the claim made by Simon Hix (WEP January 1994) that 'politics in the EC is not inherently different to the practice of government in any democratic system' and argues against a rigid division between international relations and comparative politics. It contends first, that EU politics cannot be broken up into two categories: 'politics' and 'integration'; second, that the nature of the EU system, the centrality of states and …
Still Not Pushing Back: Why the European Union Is Not Balancing the United States
A recent wave of scholarly literature has argued forcibly that the European Union’s European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) represents an attempt on the part of the EU to “balance” against the United States. According to such analyses, the EU is reacting to American global preeminence by building up its military capacities to enhance its own ability to play a significant, autonomous role in international affairs. This article takes issue with…
The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties
Party competition in Great Britain increasingly revolves around social or ‘cultural’ issues as much as it does around the economic issues that took centre stage when class was assumed to be dominant. We use data from surveys of members of parliament, party members and voters to explore how this shift has affected the internal coalitions of the Labour and Conservative Parties – and to provide a fresh test of ‘May’s Law’. We find a considerable dis…
Security Co‐operation beyond the Nation‐State: The EU's Common Security and Defence Policy
The article presents a critical overview of research on the European Union's Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP). Topics discussed include the evolving nature of the CSDP and the shift in its focus from European to global concerns, achievements of the CSDP, the debate on the performance and effectiveness of the CSDP, and theoretical frameworks within which to view the CSDP, among them international relations (IR) theories and an institution…
Instruments and Intentionality: Civilian Crisis Management and Enlargement Conditionality in EU Security Policy
This article applies a public policy instrumentation approach to two instruments of EU security policy – civilian crisis management and enlargement conditionality. Both have come to be portrayed, by policy-makers and observers alike, as deliberate and efficient responses to specific policy challenges. Our analysis of the processes behind their adoption challenges such claims. In a complex institution like the EU, and in a sensitive sector like se…
Transnational Legitimacy in a Globalising World: How the European Union Rescues its States
This article addresses claims regarding the limited legitimacy of international institutions. It argues that the two original appointed supranational institutions of the European Union play a crucial, if systematically underestimated, role not merely in providing legitimacy for the Union itself, but also in shoring up that of its constituent member states. We illustrate that supranationalism enhances national legitimacy in functional, political a…
Wider and deeper? Enlargement and integration in the European Union
This contribution presents an institutionalist account of the conditions under which widening either impedes or encourages deepening. We argue that the impact of widening on deepening depends on the position of the enlargement state relative to the preference distributions of existing member states. Also, we argue that while expanding to a laggard may in some cases create short-term gridlock, it may also provide the impetus for institutional chan…
Power, Institutions and the CSDP: The Promise of Institutionalist Theory
The common security and defence policy (CSDP) represents an institutionalized attempt on the part of European Union Member States to respond to the security challenges they confront. As such, it is perhaps self‐evident that theoretical approaches that focus on the role of institutions in shaping social life should have something to say about its nature, role and impact. This article argues that not only can institutionalist approaches enhance our…
Brexit: Initial Reflections
Even though the opinion polling before the British referendum on membership of the European Union showed a narrow gap between the two sides, the actual result—a vote to leave—on the morning of 24 June 2016 came as a surprise to many. Yet in truth both the referendum and its outcome had deep roots in British politics. In this article we cast an eye over the history of Britain's relationship with the EU, which has long been marked by a mixture of a…
The EU and Ukraine
EU members did not take long-standing Russian positions seriously, assumed any neighbour would be eager to sign up for ‘more Europe’, and have failed to generate a viable reply to Moscow's intervention
Empowering paradise? The ESDP at ten
Since its formal launch in June 1999, the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) has developed at a remarkable rate. In the subsequent decade, the EU has carried out 22 ESDP military and civilian operations and become an important element of Europe's ability to respond to international crises. For all this, however, there remain grounds for concern. These relate in part to the fact that, for all the early activism of ESDP, those military mis…
Taking back control: Sovereignty as strategy in Brexit politics
Whether sovereignty is a ‘real’ or an ‘imagined’ concept, it is fair to say that it captured the public imagination in a very real way during the 2016 referendum on European Union (EU) membership. A commonly cited reason for leaving the EU was ‘the principle that decisions about the UK should be made in the UK’. It is unpacking the potency of sovereignty – as a longstanding form of ‘democratic nostalgia’ within UK politics in opposition to a ‘fai…
Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe
Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe?." West European Politics, 38(1), pp. 258–259
The French Presidency
From crisis to catharsis: ESDP after Iraq
For many observers, the Iraq crisis spelled the end for EU ambitions in the defence sphere. The profound public and bitter divisions that emerged were seen as illustrative of the insuperable problems confronting ESDP. This article argues, however, that the reverse is in fact the case. Far from sounding the death knell for ESDP, the crisis has had a cathartic effect in compelling the member states to face up to and resolve the major ambiguities th…
Member States and International Institutions: Institutionalizing Intergovernmentalism in the European Union
The European Union: Wider and Deeper
What is the relationship between widening and deepening in the European Union (EU)? Does the addition of new member states affect the process of centralization – that is to say, whether and how mem
The European Union and Emerging Powers in the 21st Century: How Europe Can Shape a New Global Order
Edited by Thomas Renard and Sven Biscop Ashgate, Aldershot, 2012, 226 pp., £55.00, ISBN 978-1-4094-1956-3 (hbk) I very much enjoyed reading this book. The individual contributions provide penetrati
European Defence Policy from Lisbon to Libya
The EU's inactivity in the face of a crisis with obvious security implications for its member states has led to anguished soul searching
France and the EU under Sarkozy: Between European Ambitions and National Objectives
The early phase of Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency proved highly proactive, particularly during the French presidency of the European Union (EU). However, little of practical import resulted. Moreover, there is much that connects Sarkozy's policies to those of his predecessors. Constrained both at home and abroad, he was sometimes unable to carry through his preferred policies. In addition, Sarkozy has done nothing to resolve a long-standing tension…
Defence policy and integration in Western Europe
This article considers the recent debates over the possible creation of a European defence identity, focusing in particular on the links, if any, such an organisation might have with the European Union and its institutions. It is divided into three sections. The first considers discussions concerning such a European defence organisation prior to the end of the Cold War. The second examines the debates which led to the signing of the EUT and exami…
France and the IGC of 1996
France traditionally attempted to achieve its national objectives via the medium of European integration by means of a strategy of playing a leading role in shaping institutional and policy developments at the European level. Behind this strategy lay a tension between a desire for a strong Europe and an unwillingness to cede national autonomy to European institutions. However, at least until the end of the 1980s, this tension was successfully ign…
From independence to cooperation: France, Nato and European security
The end of the Cold War necessarily called into question the role of Europe's security institutions, and the attitudes of the major Western powers towards them. After 40 years of monotonous stability, reform became a necessity. Yet whereas its partners (notably Britain and the United States) pressed ahead with the reform of NATO structures in order to ensure the survival of the alliance after 1989, France, although having criticized the workings …
Wake up, Europe
We live in a world of rapid transition. Yet while, in the United States, it is hard to escape discussions of the changing international system and its implications, such debates are largely absent in Europe. This is all the more serious in that Europe is both more vulnerable than the USA to the myriad new threats on the horizon and less well equipped to confront them. We outline the nature of the challenges confronting Europe, and suggest that th…
A common European defence
Continuing politics by other means: Defence policy under the French fifth republic
This article examines French defence policy making. It has two aims: first to examine how far the sector is characterised by the forms of ‘heroic’ leadership usually associated with it, and second to place these empirical findings within the context of the literature that deals with the analysis of policy processes and public policy. The article shows how, contrary to the received wisdom, Mitterrand in particular has found it increasingly difficu…
Explaining defence policy: The Mitterrand years
Defence is a policy sector central to international relations. If war and conflict lie at the heart of traditional, Realist analyses of interstate relations, this derives in no small part from the claim that states are continually putting themselves in a position of readiness to wage such wars and triumph in conflict. If, as some commentators maintain, the nature of military doctrine, and national defence policies—offensive or defensive—can condi…
From independence to cooperation: France, Nato and European security
The end of the Cold War necessarily called into question the role of Europe's security institutions, and the attitudes of the major Western powers towards them. After 40 years of monotonous stability, reform became a necessity. Yet whereas its partners (notably Britain and the United States) pressed ahead with the reform of NATO structures in order to ensure the survival of the alliance after 1989, France, although having criticized the workings …
Defence policy and integration in Western Europe
This article considers the recent debates over the possible creation of a European defence identity, focusing in particular on the links, if any, such an organisation might have with the European Union and its institutions. It is divided into three sections. The first considers discussions concerning such a European defence organisation prior to the end of the Cold War. The second examines the debates which led to the signing of the EUT and exami…
Politics like any other? Comparative politics, international relations and the study of the EU
This article disputes the claim made by Simon Hix (WEP January 1994) that 'politics in the EC is not inherently different to the practice of government in any democratic system' and argues against a rigid division between international relations and comparative politics. It contends first, that EU politics cannot be broken up into two categories: 'politics' and 'integration'; second, that the nature of the EU system, the centrality of states and …
France and the IGC of 1996
France traditionally attempted to achieve its national objectives via the medium of European integration by means of a strategy of playing a leading role in shaping institutional and policy developments at the European level. Behind this strategy lay a tension between a desire for a strong Europe and an unwillingness to cede national autonomy to European institutions. However, at least until the end of the 1980s, this tension was successfully ign…
The Paradoxes of ‘Failure: British EU Policy Making in Comparative Perspective
Domestic Constraints on French Nato Policy
Since 1966 and even before, the policies pursued by France toward NATO have been both the object of a certain amount of Gallic pride and the source of considerable confusion, not to say irritation, among France’s partners. Why have these policies been pursued? The aim of this article is to address this question by means of an examination of the domestic pressures and constraints that have helped to shape France’s policies toward NATO. It reveals …
L'administration française à Bruxelles
La coordination intra-étatique qui préside à l'élaboration des politiques européennes constitue un sujet d'intérêt croissant, tant pour les responsables politiques que pour les observateurs universitaires. Cet article entend contribuer au débat grandissant sur le thème de la formation des politiques européennes (policy making) au sein des États-membres, à partir de l'analyse d'une dimension spécifique du processus de coordination de la politique…
Playing with fire: The EU's defence policy
The European Union has, since 1999, continued doggedly in its attemps to equip itself with a defence policy. Wathever the outcome of these efforts, the progress made rencently towards that end has been impressive. However, this article questions some of the prevalent claims and assumptions about the European Union’s security and defence policy, arguing that the implications of ESDP threatens to weaken rather than strengten Europe’s ability to con…
Alliance Politics, Kosovo, and Nato's War: Allied Force or Forced Allies? Edited by Pierre Martin and Mark R. Brawley. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 246p. $49.95
The obvious advantage of edited collections, such as this interesting book, is that they allow a range of authors with a huge cumulative breath of knowledge about a subject to cover virtually all aspects of it. This they certainly do in Alliance Politics, Kosovo, and NATO's War , examining the way in which both NATO as a whole and its most important members reacted to and handled the Kosovo crisis of 2000
Governing Europe
This book is intended to be the leading advanced survey of politics in Western Europe. It examines in detail all aspects of political life in Western Europe, from public protest to core executives, and from social policy to Europe’s place in the world. It brings together a team of leading scholars from the United Kingdom, continental Europe and North America. The contributions provide not only a sophisticated introduction to the various issues co…
Governing Europe
Member States and International Institutions: Institutionalizing Intergovernmentalism in the European Union
The principal-agent approach and the study of the European Union: Promise Unfulfilled
The principal-agent model holds great promise for understanding the institutional complexities of the EU and for moving beyond the sterile debate between intergovernmentalism and neofunctionalism. As yet, however, scholars have failed to exploit the insights that this construct affords. After a brief discussion of the principal-agent model, this article offers a critical examination of the way that the principal-agent approach has been deployed b…
Britain and the Convention on the Future of Europe
If the reaction from the British Conservative Party and the right-wing press were to be believed, it would be easy to think that the constitutional treaty produced by the European Convention represented a failure for Britain. This article takes issues with such claims. It illustrates, by tracing British involvement within the Convention from its inception to the finalization of the draft treaty, that the British Government succeeded remarkably we…
Les États membres de l'UE et la Commission Prodi
The relationship between the member states and the Commission is at the heart of the EU's institutional structure and at the centre of debates about the European Union. How the power of the Commission changes over time, reflecting, and at the same time contributing to, a shifting balance between supranational and intergovernmental elements, is no less important. This article contends that the decline of the Commission, already in progress when Pr…
Britain and European Integration: The View from Within
From crisis to catharsis: ESDP after Iraq
For many observers, the Iraq crisis spelled the end for EU ambitions in the defence sphere. The profound public and bitter divisions that emerged were seen as illustrative of the insuperable problems confronting ESDP. This article argues, however, that the reverse is in fact the case. Far from sounding the death knell for ESDP, the crisis has had a cathartic effect in compelling the member states to face up to and resolve the major ambiguities th…
Reformulating Neofunctionalism
Transnational Legitimacy in a Globalising World: How the European Union Rescues its States
This article addresses claims regarding the limited legitimacy of international institutions. It argues that the two original appointed supranational institutions of the European Union play a crucial, if systematically underestimated, role not merely in providing legitimacy for the Union itself, but also in shoring up that of its constituent member states. We illustrate that supranationalism enhances national legitimacy in functional, political a…
Chalk, Cheese and European Security
This article was downloaded by: [University of Birmingham]On: 28 August 2008Access details: Access Details: [subscription number 789689609]Publisher RoutledgeInforma Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House,37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK
France and the EU under Sarkozy: Between European Ambitions and National Objectives
The early phase of Nicolas Sarkozy's presidency proved highly proactive, particularly during the French presidency of the European Union (EU). However, little of practical import resulted. Moreover, there is much that connects Sarkozy's policies to those of his predecessors. Constrained both at home and abroad, he was sometimes unable to carry through his preferred policies. In addition, Sarkozy has done nothing to resolve a long-standing tension…
Still Not Pushing Back: Why the European Union Is Not Balancing the United States
A recent wave of scholarly literature has argued forcibly that the European Union’s European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) represents an attempt on the part of the EU to “balance” against the United States. According to such analyses, the EU is reacting to American global preeminence by building up its military capacities to enhance its own ability to play a significant, autonomous role in international affairs. This article takes issue with…
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