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Political Parties and European Integration
This book offers a systematic analysis of the role of political parties in the European Union in the process of Community integration. The author looks at the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the transnational structures of the parties and their stake in the institutions of the EU. Examining the manifestos and programmes that the principal political parties of the six most populated states of the EU presented during the campaign for the European parliamentary elections of 2004, he provides an analysis of their political strategies, placing the parties on both the classic left/right axis and that of supranationalism/intergovernmentalism. The focus is specifically on the statements and policy proposals of the parties on the following issues related to the EU as a political system: the nature of the EU, the reach of its territorial space, the debate about a European citizenry, the various projects for institutional reform of the EU and the principal concrete public policies regarding the three pillars. Based on the methodological perspective of comparative politics, the book addresses in a transversal manner the parties' core programmes and their implications for Europe.
Anti-Europeanism, Populism and European Integration in a Historical Perspective
This book explores the long-term origins of populist Euroscepticism. Taking a historical perspective to move beyond explaining present-day expressions of opposition to the European Union in isolation, this book reveals the historical sedimentation of the several ways and forms taken over decades by opposition towards European integration. As such, this approach – with contributions from across disciplines - explains not just the past of Euroscepticism, but also its current nature and future prospects. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European History, European Politics and Studies and more broadly to Political Science, International Relations, the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Euroscepticism, Europhobia and Eurocriticism
This book analyses in detail the electoral manifestos and programmes presented by twenty-two parties during the European Parliamentary elections in 2009. The research indicates that radical right-wing parties usually have Europhobic impulses, however, radical left-wing parties are, in theory, favourable to European integration, but dispute the direction currently imposed by the EU authorities.
A United States of Europe?
This book analyses the incremental process of European construction and the resulting system where intergovernmental and supranational elements exist in only occasional harmony. It analyses the programmes that the parties in the most populous states presented in the European elections of 201 in favour and against integration.
Contemporary Perspectives on Turkey’s EU Accession Process
Despite having made its first application for EEC membership in 1959, Turkey’s bid to join the EU remains as controversial as ever, with Turkey and EU relations arguably at an all–time low in the aftermath of the attempted coup d’état of July 2016. In this context, the essays here, while using (de)Europeanisation as a broad theoretical framework, explore the current state of Turkey’s EU accession bid from a variety of perspectives, including discourse analysis, Euroscepticism and institutionalist approaches. The essays focus not only on discursive and policy (de)Europeanisation within Turkey, but also examine both official EU and European right–wing Eurosceptic discourse on Turkish accession, as well as approaching the Turkish accession process through comparisons with the contemporary Western Balkan countries and with post–war Germany.
The European Democratic Deficit
The «never-ending crisis» that started in 2008 and the technocratic and fiscal measures demanded by the «Troika» have aggravated the EU's so-called «democratic deficit» more than ever before. In this essay the principal theoretical and practical dimensions of this phenomenon at the levels of institution, procedure and social legitimacy are set out and developed. With this in mind, the dysfunctions in the architecture of the institutions, the elite, complex and opaque mechanisms in decision-making and, most importantly, the growing critical estrangement of many citizens reveals that poor democratic quality of the EU constitutes its principal and most serious political problem. To empirically illustrate this debate, Rodríguez-Aguilera evaluates the positions and proposals of the parties in the six most populous countries that have addressed this issue through a comparative analysis of their political programmes.
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Rusia, en vísperas de su futuro
Pese al persistente desafío del secesionismo, de la crisis económica, del enfrentamiento interinstitucional y de la corrupción rampante, la Federación Rusa sigue siendo todavía hoy uno de los más importantes actores en la escena política internacional. Comprender a Rusia –esto es, entender cómo se gobiernan sus instituciones, qué proponen sus principales fuerzas políticas, cuáles son las exigencias de los nacionalismos de uno y otro signo, cómo ha evolucionado su federalismo, de qué modo su economía pugna por salir adelante, hasta qué punto ha cambiado su sociedad y qué esperan los rusos de las naciones de su entorno y del resto del mundo- resulta esencial para comprender el mundo en que vivimos. Rusia, en vísperas de su futuro pretende brindar esa visión global, actualizada y rigurosa del presente y del pasado más inmediato de Rusia, de la mano de varios de los más reputados expertos españoles y rusos sobre la materia.
