All these premises having, as I think, been clearly made out, it is impossible that the rulers now on earth should make any benefit, or derive any the least shadow of authority from that, which is held to be the fountain of all power, Adam's private dominion and paternal jurisdiction; so that he that will not give just occasion to think that all government in the world is the product only of force and violence, and that men live together by no other rules but that of beasts, where the strongest carries it, and so lay a foundation for perpetual disorder and mischief, tumult, sedition and rebellion, (things that the followers of that hypothesis so loudly cry out against) must of necessity find out another rise of government, another original of political power, and another way of designing and knowing the persons that have it, than what Sir Robert Filmer hath taught us.

Two Treatises of Government.

Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace

The Tragedy of Great Power Politics

List of Boxes. List of Tables and Figure. Preface. Abbreviations. Introduction. 1. Capitalism and the Capitalist Type of State. 2. The Keynesian Welfare National State. 3. The Schumpeterian Competition State. 4. Social Reproduction and the Workfare State. 5. The Political Economy of State Rescaling. 6. From Mixed Economy to Metagovernance. 7. Towards Schumpeterian Workfare Postnational Regimes?. Notes. References. Index.

The Future of the Capitalist State.

The post-Maastricht period is marked by an integration paradox. While the basic constitutional features of the European Union have remained stable, EU activity has expanded to an unprecedented degree. This form of integration without supranationalism is no exception or temporary deviation from traditional forms of European integration. Rather, it is a distinct phase of European integration, what is called ‘the new intergovernmentalism’ in this article. This approach to post-Maastricht integration challenges theories that associate integration with transfers of competences from national capitals to supranational institutions and those that reduce integration to traditional socioeconomic or security-driven interests. This article explains the integration paradox in terms of transformations in Europe's political economy, changes in preference formation and the decline of the ‘permissive consensus’. It presents a set of six hypotheses that develop further the main claims of the new intergovernmentalism and that can be used as a basis for future research.

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The New Intergovernmentalism: European Integration in the Post‐Maastricht Era

The twenty years since the signing of the Maastricht Treaty have been marked by an integration paradox: although the scope of European Union (EU) activity has increased at an unprecedented pace, this increase has largely taken place in the absence of significant new transfers of power to supranational institutions along traditional lines. Conventional theories of European integration struggle to explain this paradox because they equate integration with the empowerment of specific supranational institutions under the traditional Community method. New governance scholars, meanwhile, have not filled this intellectual void, preferring instead to focus on specific deviations from the Community method rather than theorizing about the evolving nature of the European project.

The New Intergovernmentalism challenges established assumptions about how member states behave, what supranational institutions want, and where the dividing line between high and low politics is located, and develops a new theoretical framework known as the new intergovernmentalism. 

The fifteen chapters in this volume by leading political scientists, political economists, and legal scholars explore the scope and limits of the new intergovernmentalism as a theory of post-Maastricht integration and draw conclusions about the profound state of political disequilibrium in which the EU operates. This book is of relevance to EU specialists seeking new ways of thinking about European integration and policy-making, and general readers who wish to understand what has happened to the EU in the two troubled decades since 1992.

The new intergovernmentalism: states and supranational actors in the post-Maastricht era

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Acronyms List of Figures and Tables Introduction PART I 1. Europe's Compromising Union 2. The Member State Paradigm 3. From Nation-States to Member States: A Brief History PART II 4. European Economic Integration and State Transformation 5. From Nation-States to Member States in European Foreign Policy Conclusion Bibliography Index

European Integration: From Nation-States to Member States

Although populism and technocracy increasingly appear as the two organising poles of politics in contemporary Western democracies, the exact nature of their relationship has not been the focus of systematic attention. This article argues that whilst these two terms – and the political realities they refer to – are usually assumed to be irreducibly opposed to one another, there is also an important element of complementarity between them. This complementarity consists in the fact that both populism and technocracy are predicated upon an implicit critique of a specific political form, referred to in this article as ‘party democracy’. This is defined as a political regime based on two key features: the mediation of political conflicts through the institution of political parties and a procedural conception of political legitimacy according to which political outcomes are legitimate to the extent that they are the product of a set of democratic procedures revolving around the principles of parliamentary delib...

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Populism and technocracy: opposites or complements?

Introduction: The Unholy Alliance against Sovereignty The Editors 1. Politics Without Sovereignty The Editors 2. Sovereignty and the Politics of Responsibility Philip Cunliffe 3. National Insecurities: The New Politics of the American National Interest Alexander Gourevitch 4. From State of War to State of Nature: Human Security and Sovereignty Tara McCormack 5. State-Building: Exporting State Failure Christopher J. Bickerton 6. Country Ownership: The Evasion of Donor Accountability John Pender 7. European Union: A Process Without a Subject James Heartfield 8. Deconstructing Sovereignty: Constructing Global Civil Society David Chandler 9. Legalizing Politics and Politicizing Law: The Changing Relationship Between Sovereignty and International Law Michael Savage 10. How Should Sovereignty Be Defended? James Der Derian, Michael W. Doyle, Jack L. Snyder and David Kennedy

Christopher J. Bickerton

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The New Intergovernmentalism: European Integration in the Post‐Maastricht Era

The new intergovernmentalism: states and supranational actors in the post-Maastricht era

European Integration: From Nation-States to Member States

Populism and technocracy: opposites or complements?

Politics without sovereignty : a critique of contemporary international relations