Beyond the Regulatory Polity? The European Integration of Core State Powers

Most EU-scholars conceive of the EU as a multilevel polity with strong powers to regulate economic policy externalities among the member states but little power to intervene in, let alone assume, core functions of sovereign government ('core state powers') such as foreign and defense policy, public finance, public administration, and the maintenance of law and order. This book challenges this view. Based on a systematic comparison of integration processes in military security, fiscal policy, and public administration, it finds steady progress in the integration of core state powers although with substantial sectoral variation. But the EU is not heading towards state-building. In contrast to the historical experience of national federations, the European integration of core state powers proceeds mostly by regulating national capacities, not by creating European ones, and leads to territorial fragmentation rather than increased cohesiveness.

1 - Introduction: Beyond Market Regulation: Analyzing the European Integration of Core State Powers
2 - Integrating the Acquisition of Leviathan's Swords? The Emerging Regulation of Defense Procurement Within the EU
3 - Military Integration in Europe
4 - Defence Policy and the Logic of 'High Politics'
5 - Why is there Fiscal Capacity but little Regulation in the US, but Regulation and little Fiscal Capacity in Europe? The Global Financial Crisis as a Test Case
6 - Fiscal Integration by Default
7 - The Divided Sovereignty of the Eurozone
8 - Regulating Capacity Building by Stealth. Pattern and Extent of EU Involvement in Public Administration
9 - The Rise of a European Public Administration. European Capacity Building by Stealth
10 - Differentiated integration of Core State Powers
11 - Building the New European State? Federalism, Core State Powers, and European Integration
12 - Covert Integration of Core State Powers. Renegotiating Incomplete Contracts
13 - Conclusion: The European Integration of Core State Powers. Patterns and Causes

Philipp Genschel is Professor of Political Science at Jacobs University Bremen and a former Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. He held visiting appointments at the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Chicago, the University Bremen, Harvard University, and the Technical University Munich. Markus Jachtenfuchs is Professor of European and Global Governance at the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin. After receiving his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, he held positions at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research, the University of Greifswald, Jacobs University Bremen, and a visiting appointment at the Harvard Kennedy School.