Product details
- Categories: May 2019, Diplomacy & External Relations explained, External Relations
- Publisher: PALGRAVE-MACMILLAN
- Collection: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
- ISBN: 9783030127039
- Publication Date: 01/05/2019
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 223
- Language: English
Summary
Leadership of powerful states and organizations is crucial for the success of regional integration projects. This book offers a theoretical model explaining such leadership. By applying the model to eurozone governance and reform, the book combines innovative theorizing on leadership in regional and international affairs with original research on Economic and Monetary Union politics. Six in-depth case studies analyze the (non-)leadership of Germany and EU institutions in eurozone crisis management. Moreover, the book evaluates the eurozone’s leadership record since the outbreak of its crisis and helps readers understand the leadership of collective actors, and the extent to which they can contribute to overcoming crisis and fostering European integration. In particular, the book investigates the under-researched questions of who provided leadership in the eurozone crisis and why, and which conditions are required to achieve successful leadership in the EU.
Table of contents
Introduction: Explaining Leadership in the Eurozone
Pages 1-12
Conceptualizing Leadership: What It Is and Why It Matters
Pages 13-25
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Theorizing Leadership: Emergence and Impact
Pages 27-49
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Analysing Leadership I: Germany in the Eurozone Crisis
Pages 51-127
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Analysing Leadership II: The EU Institutions in the Eurozone Crisis
Pages 129-193
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Evaluating Leadership: The Hard Case of the Eurozone
Pages 195-212
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Conclusions