The EU is a supranational organization, whose reach and influence extends well beyond its member states, especially to the many states that have signed various forms of association agreement with it.
This book asks whether qualifying states who have eschewed EU membership experience negative effects on their legal and political self-governing abilities, or whether they manage their independence with few such effects. It explores the idea that the closer the affiliation a non-member state has with the EU, the more susceptible to hegemony the relationship appears to be. In addition, the book provides an overview of the total range of agreements the EU has with non-member states.
Content
Chapter 1: Introduction – asymmetry and the problem of dominance
Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
Part One: Forms of association without membership
Chapter 2: The EU’s different neighbourhood models
Sieglinde Gstöhl
Chapter 3: The Swiss Way – the Nature of Switzerland’s Relationship to the EU
Sandra Lavenex and René Schwok
Chapter 4: Switzerland – bilateralism’s polarizing consequences in a very particular/ist democracy
Joachim Blatter
Part Two: Welcomed, inside, but still unwilling – two EEA countries assessed
Chapter 5: Despoiling Norwegian democracy
Erik O. Eriksen
Chapter 6: The EEA and the case-law of the ECJ: Incorporation without participation?
Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen
Chapter 7: Iceland – A reluctant European?
Baldur Thórhallsson
Chapter 8: Norway’s constitutional acrobatics under the EEA Agreement
Eirik Holmøyvik
Chapter 9: Representation under hegemony? On Norway’s relationship to the EU
John Erik Fossum
Chapter 10: National administrative sovereignty – under pressure
Morten Egeberg and Jarle Trondal
Chapter 11: Reinforcing executive dominance: Norway and EU’s foreign and security policy
Helene Sjursen
Part Three: Sovereignty Under Hegemony
Chapter 12: The United Kingdom, a once and future (?) non-member state
Christopher Lord
Chapter 13: Hegemony by association
Erik O. Eriksen and John Erik Fossum
Full info
The European Union's Non-Members: Independence under Hegemony?
Erik Oddvar Eriksen og John Erik Fossum (eds)
Routledge, 2015
ISBN: 9781138922457