Nettsider med emneord «Amsterdam Treaty»

This paper tests the explanatory power of a deliberative and an intergovernmental approach with regards to small state influence within the EU's external policy. It provides a detailed analysis of the Swedish-Finnish initiative on including crisis management in the Amsterdam Treaty in 1997.

ARENA Working Paper 23/2004 (pdf)

Børge O. Romsloe

Taking the Amsterdam Treaty as object of study, this paper makes the case for an institutionalist perspective of the EU. Institutional reform, it is argued, stems less from member state power and preferences than from path-dependence, internal dynamics and specific circumstances of the ICG.

ARENA Working Paper 21/1998 (html)

Ulf Sverdrup