Democracy Versus Diplomacy? The Involvement of External Actors in Trilogue Negotiations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10069795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Céleste Bonnamy (0000-0001-7804-4175, Sciences Po Lille Lille, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jcms.13772 |
| OpenAlex | W4411356253 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article examines the role of external actors in shaping trilogue practices, using the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) directive adopted in 2019 as a case study. Building on Roederer‐Rynning and Greenwood's conceptualisation of trilogues as ‘politicised diplomacy’, it identifies two distinct categories of external actors: French and German heads of state and digital activists. Whilst state leaders reinforced a diplomatic logic through closed‐door negotiations, digital activists introduced a democratic logic, employing protest actions to demand transparency and inclusivity. These dynamics disrupted the usual functioning of the Eurocratic space. The article contributes to the practice‐theory framework by foregrounding a democratic logic alongside the established parliamentary and diplomatic logics. It offers a nuanced perspective on trilogues as socially constructed spaces and highlights the evolving role of external actors in European legislative processes
Democracy · Diplomacy · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · International Development and Aid · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law
The Field of Eurocracy
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In the Shadow of Public Opinion
Introduction. EU Digital Policies and Politics
Sociology, institutionalism and the European Union
Integration without transparency’? Reliance on the space to think in the European Council and Council
Symbolic power in European diplomacy
Introduction
Towards a Practice Turn in EU Studies
Codecision and Its Discontents
The European Parliament as a developing legislature
Transparency of EU informal trilogues through public feedback in the European Parliament
From liberalisation to regulation
Relais actors’ and co-decision first reading agreements in the European Parliament
The Janus Face of Brussels
Co-decision after Lisbon
Black boxes and open secrets
The politics of platform capitalism
Speaking Your Mind Without Elections, Surveys, or Social Movements
Undermining lobbying coalitions
Is informal politics undemocratic? Trilogues, early agreements and the selection model of representation
The culture of trilogues
Inside the black box of trilogues
Agency slack as cause of deviation in trilogue negotiations
Organized interests and trilogues in a post-regulatory era of EU policy-making
How institutional environments facilitate co-operative negotiation styles in EU decision-making
Concluding Early Agreements in the EU
Informal Politics in the EU
Interorganizational Negotiation and Intraorganizational Power in Shared Decision Making
The Focused Interview
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |