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Reconfiguring sovereignty

Crisis, politicization, and European integration

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ID7880554
AuthorsNicolas Jabko (0000-0001-8028-1946, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, corresponding author), Meghan Luhman (International Forum for Democratic Studies, Washington, DC, USA)
Year2019
Volume26
Issue7
Pages1037-1055
Publication date2019-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501763.2019.1619190
OpenAlexW2947559224
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited34

The Eurozone and migration crises have reconfigured sovereignty in the European Union. The Eurozone has moved from an outright prohibition to a conditional acceptance of bailouts, and the Schengen regime has extended into the long sacrosanct national turf of border control. Building on recent scholarship on sovereignty practices, we argue that EU leaders worked out crisis responses that shifted broad understandings of how sovereignty was practiced. Our main claim is that politicization, in situations of crisis, can accelerate the reconfiguration of fragile sovereignty practices. After a crisis reveals the vulnerability of existing sovereignty practices, EU leaders search for integrationist remedies, incorporate sovereignty concerns as key reform ingredients, and coalesce to marginalize sovereignty claims that threaten integration. This logic calls into question the widespread view that politicization necessarily carries dismal prospects for integration

Economics · European union · International trade · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Sovereignty · Vulnerability (computing · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Political Systems and Governance

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