Is 'Europeanization' as disappointing a term as it is fashionable? Should it be abandoned, or is it useful for understanding European transformations? Five uses are discussed and it is argued that research need not be hampered by competing definitions as long as their meaning, the phenomena in focus, the simplifying assumption used, the models of change and the theoretical challenges involved, are clarified and kept separate. The research challenge is one of model building, not one of inventing definitions. While it is premature to abandon the term, its usefulness may be more limited than its widespread use could indicate. Europeanization may be less useful as an explanatory concept than as an attention-directing device and a starting point for further exploration.

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The Many Faces of Europeanization

This article seeks to develop a concept of ‘security governance’ in the context of post-Cold War Europe. The validity of a governance approach lies in its ability to locate some of the distinctive ways in which European security has been coordinated, managed and regulated. Based on an examination of the way governance is utilised in other political fields of political analysis, the article identifies the concept of security governance as involving the coordinated management and regulation of issues by multiple and separate authorities, the interventions of both public and private actors (depending upon the issue), formal and informal arrangements, in turn structured by discourse and norms, and purposefully directed toward particular policy outcomes. Three issues are examined to demonstrate the utility of the concept of security governance for understanding security in post-Cold War Europe: the transformation of NATO, the Europeanisation of security accomplished through EU-led initiatives and, finally, the resultant dynamic relationship between forms of exclusion and inclusion in governance.

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The Governance of European Security

Essence of diplomacy

European Institutions and Identity Change: What Have We Learned?

(2002). Imagining the European Economy: 'Competitiveness' and the Social Construction of 'Europe' as an Economic Space. New Political Economy: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 157-177.

Imagining the European Economy: 'Competitiveness' and the Social Construction of 'Europe' as an Economic Space

Chapter 1 Unsettled. Chapter 2 European States and Nations. Chapter 3 World Politics. Chapter 4 International Political Economy. Chapter 5 Governance. Chapter 6 Market. Chapter 7 Money. Chapter 8 International Role. Chapter 8 A New Model of Internationalisation

Rory O' Donnell

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Europe's Experimental Union: Rethinking Integration