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Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2006
Visions of Europe: Key Problems, New Trajectories
UACES 36th Annual Conference and 11th Research Conference

Research Papers

Listed below are the titles of the research papers that have been accepted for the conference. They have been listed in alphabetical order by surname of the author. If the paper is a joint paper, it may be listed under the co-author's name.

Further information about research panels, paper abstracts and research sessions can be found by following the links below

Last updated: Monday, 04 September 2006


Adshead, Maura
Who Learns What, from Whom? Evaluating the Europeanization Effects of OMC and NAPs in Ireland
[Research Session 1]

Afonso, Oscar
Joint paper with Rui Henrique Alves
Endogenous Growth and European Fiscal Rules
[Research Session 5]

Allen, Matthew
Companies and the Open Method of Co-ordination
[Research Session 2]

Alves, Rui Henrique
Joint paper with Oscar Afonso
The ‘New’ Stability and Growth Pact: More Flexible, Less Stupid?
[Research Session 5]

Averre, Derek
Patching up a Threadbare Partnership: The EU-Russia Common Space of External Security
[Research Session 1]

Balch, Alex
Opening up Fortress Europe? Managed Migration Policies in the UK and Spain
[Research Session 1]

Berglund, Sara
Problems with Implementing European Public Utilities Directives: Domestic Opposition or Administrative Ineffectiveness?
[Research Session 3]

Bergman, Annika
The Nordic-Baltic Space and New Conceptions of Political Community: Implications for Europe
[Research Session 2]

Bergman, Annika
The European Security Strategy, ESDP and Non-alignment
[Research Session 5]

Bethge, Jan-Alexander
Joint paper with Renate Ohr
Current-Account Matters on the way to EMU: The Transfer Problem Re-revisited
[Research Session 3]

Beveridge, Fiona
Building Against the Past: The Impact of Mainstreaming on EU Gender Law and Policy
[Research Session 3]

Billiet, Stijn
Principal-Agent Analysis as an Integration Theory: The Commission in the World Trade Organisation
[Research Session 2]

Biscop, Sven
Strategy or Stratagem? The European Security Strategy in Perspective
[Research Session 5]

Bogutcaia, Giselle
Joint paper with Anke Schmidt-Felzmann and Giselle Bosse
Lost in Translation? Political Elites and the Interpretative Values Gap in European Neighbourhood Policies
[Research Session 3]

Bosse, Giselle
Don’t Mention the Neighbours! The EU, Russia and the European Neighbourhood Policy: A Tale of Interests, Institutions and Identities
[Research Session 1]

Brouwer, Frank
The European Union's Sustainable Development Strategy and Trade: Evaluating the Role of Sustainability Impact Assessments on EU Trade Policy-Making
[Research Session 2]

Buecker, Nicola
Imagine Europe: Frames on the European Union in Poland and East Germany
[Research Session 4]

Bugdahn, Sonja
Travelling to Brussels via Aarhus or from Network Governance to Governing with Networks
[Research Session 3]

Burns, Charlotte
‘New’ Governance and Environmental Policy Integration
[Research Session 2]

Carter, Caitriona
Joint paper with Andy Smith
Regulatory Visions: Comparing Two Industries of Fisheries and Wine
[Research Session 6]

Castro-Conde, Cristina Ares
The Participation of the Regional Legislative Assemblies in the 'Early Warning System': A Broken Toy or a Democratic Plus?
[Research Session 6]

Chapman, Rachael
Joint paper with Ian Bache
Democracy through Multi-level Governance?
[Research Session 1]

Cini, Michelle
Reforming Ethics in the European Commission: From the 2000 White Paper to the Transparency Initiative
[Research Session 2]

Clifton, Judith
Joint paper with Daniel Díaz Fuentes and Francisco Comín
Public Services, Civil Society and EU Governance: What Consequences for Democracy?
[Research Session 4]

Cottey, Andrew
The EU and Non-Proliferation
[Research Session 4]

David, Maxine
Values in Russian Foreign Policy: Consequences for the EU-Russia Relationship
[Research Session 4]

Davidescu, Elena-Simona
EU Funding for Environmental Policy in Hungary and Romania
[Research Session 5]

de Maillard, Jacques
Ambivalent Visions of Regulatory Europe: The Case of Wine in the Bordelais and the Languedoc
[Research Session 6]

Deforche, Jana
Joint paper with Peter Bursens
Subnational Strategic Behaviour Towards the EU: The Case of Flanders
[Research Session 5]

Dierx, Adriaan
Joint paper with Fabienne Ilzkovitz
The Internal Market and the Innovative Performance of the European Economy
[Research Session 6]

Edwards, Sobrina
‘Crisis? What Crisis?’: The EUropean Institutions and the Concept of Public Support
[Research Session 3]

Etzold, Tobias
Regional Organisations in North-Eastern Europe: Objectives, Differences, Possibilities of Co-operation
[Research Session 2]

Fairbrass, Jenny
UK Businesses and Sustainable Development Policy: Shaping the Debate in the EU
[Research Session 1]

Feklyunina, Valentina
Joint paper with Sirke Mäkinen
Image of an Enemy or Image of a Friend? International Images as a Factor in the EU-Russia Relations
[Research Session 1]

Flear, Mark
The Implications of ‘New Governance’ for the Free Movement of Persons and its Relationship with Health Care Systems: A Sociological or Constructivist Institutionalist Perspective
[Research Session 2]

Fletcher, Maria
The European Court of Justice: Carving Itself an Influential Role in the Third Pillar
[Research Session 5]

Flynn, Brendan
Salvaging Subsidiarity: The Role and Significance of the Subsidiarity Concept for the EU’s Constitution (Dis)Order
[Research Session 4]

Forysinski, Wojciech
Reviewing Europe’s Role in the UN’s Efforts to Resolve the Cyprus Problem
[Research Session 1]

Friedrichs, Jörg
Who Wants What, When, and Why? International Police Cooperation and Large European States
[Research Session 5]

Friedrichs, Jörg
Joint paper with Markus Jachtenfuchs, Eva Herschinger and Christiane Kasack
Policing Among Nations: Embedding the Monopoly of Force
[Research Session 5]

Funk, Lothar
Social Europe: Is there a better way?
[Research Session 2]

Furusawa, Katsuto
Participation and Protest in the EU and the ‘Outsiders’
[Research Session 3]

Gallego, Raquel
Public Management Policy Change in Spain, 1996-2000: Issues, Entrepreneurs and (Non)Decisions
[Research Session 2]

Gerlach, Carina
The EU and the GATS: Decreasing Returns on Power Investments
[Research Session 6]

Giuffrida, Iria
Accountability in the Context of Comitology and Regulatory Agencies: The Case of GMOs
[Research Session 2]

Guerra, Simona
The Hour of Europe Has Come: Polish Support for the EU After Accession
[Research Session 3]

Guttenbrunner, Sonja
New Modes of Governance and EU Enlargement: The Pre-conditions for Non-hierarchical Cooperation of State and Non-state Actors
[Research Session 4]

Häge, Frank
Bureaucratic Discretion in the Council of the European Union: Decision-Making by Diplomats and National Officials
[Research Session 6]

Haglund-Morrissey, Anne
Common Values, Conditionality and the European Neighbourhood Policy
[Research Session 5]

Hervey, Tamara
Health Law and the EU's Constitutional Dialogue
[Research Session 4]

Hodson, Dermot
EU Economic Governance and the Reform of the SGP and Lisbon Strategy: A Principal-Agent Perspective
[Research Session 2]

Holden, Patrick
In Search of Structural Power: The European Union’s Efforts to Forge a Euro-Mediterranean Space
[Research Session 6]

Horvath, Anna
The Social Protection Committee after the Enlargement: Still Deliberative Governance?
[Research Session 5]

Houbenova-Delisivkova, Tatiana
Financial Restructuring of the South-East European Countries within the Context of the EU Accession
[Research Session 5]

Howarth, David
Game Theory, the Stability Pact and the Credibility and Legitimacy of the EMU Project
[Research Session 1]

Hutcheson, Derek
Democracy and Accountability in Europe: Common Values?
[Research Session 3]

Icener, Erhan
Understanding Romania and Turkey’s Integration with the European Union: Security and Geo-strategic Considerations
[Research Session 3]

Itçaina, Xabier
Joint paper with
Xabier Itçaina
Sectoral Issues and Environmental Causes: French Basque Fishermen, The Prestige and a Double-edged Perception of Europe
[Research Session 6]

Kennard, Ann
Cultural Influences on the EU’s New Neighbourhood Strategy: The Role of the Border Regions
[Research Session 1]

Kenner, Jeffrey
Sustainable Development and Empowerment through Transnational Labour Law: The EU’s Contribution to the Transformation of Global Social Governance?
[Research Session 2]

Kingah, Sevidzem
Trading Preferences for Political and Economic Accountability: Good governance from the Yaoundé to the Cotonou Agreements between the EC and ACP Countries
[Research Session 2]

Kochenov, Dimitry
The European Union: Numerous Contradictory Approaches to Minority Protection under One Roof
[Research Session 1]

Koelling, Mario
Explaining Negotiations on Financial Perspectives 2007-2013: Actors and Institutions. How did New Member States do?
[Research Session 4]

Komorek, Ewa
The European Union and the Regulation of Media Concentration in the Era of Convergence
[Research Session 4]

Kostakopoulou, Theodora
The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and the EU's Constitutional Dialogue
[Research Session 4]

Lamoreaux, Jeremy
Joint paper with David Galbreath
The Baltic States as ‘Small States’: Coming to Terms with the Dynamics of the Baltic Sea Region
[Research Session 2]

Langer, Josef
Small States and Democracy in the Order of the European Union
[Research Session 3]

Laulhe Shaelou, Stéphanie
Cyprus as a Fully Integrated Member State of the EU: The Way Forward
[Research Session 1]

Lawrence, Roger
Theorising Regional Cross-border Collaboration at the Edge of the New Europe
[Research Session 1]

Lazowski, Adam
European Economic Area: Disappearing Hybrid or Sustainable Enterprise?
[Research Session 6]

Lempp, Jakob
The Committee of Permanent Representatives and the Council Working Parties after Enlargement
[Research Session 5]

Leontitsis, Vasileios
Territorial Restructuring in Greece: A Case of Europeanisation?
[Research Session 1]

Leucht, Brigitte
Measuring Impact? Transatlantic Policy Networks in the Creation of the ECSC, 1950-51
[Research Session 2]

Levy, Roger
Joint paper with Anne Stevens
The Modernisation of the European Commission: Promoting Equal Opportunities for Women in the Commission Services
[Research Session 2]

Lianos, Paraschos
ESDP and Strategic Culture; A Study on the Feasibility of a European Strategic Mono-culture
[Research Session 6]

Mac Sithigh, Daithi
Web Media: Without Frontiers, Without Borders, or Without Law?
[Research Session 4]

Maher, Imelda
Accountability, Control and the Rule of Law: The European Competition Network
[Research Session 2]

Marchi, Ludovica
Stepping Towards an FPA Model
[Research Session 6]

Margaras, Vasilis
From Amorphous Networks to Integrated Communities? An Analysis of the Development of ESDP
[Research Session 6]

Marzinotto, Benedicta
Inflation Differentials in EMU: Why is Germany’s Wage Growth Slower than Average?
[Research Session 3]

May, Justin
Trade and Migration in an Enlarged European Union: A Spatial Analysis
[Research Session 6]

McCauley, Darren
Responding to Europeanisation? French Environmentalism and an ‘Excluding’ State
[Research Session 4]

McCauley, Darren
Divergent Interpretations of Sustainability? French Environmentalism, the State and the EU: Sustainable Agriculture and the GM foods debate 1998-2005
[Research Session 1]

McGowan, Lee
Theorising Regional Integration in the European Union: Does Competition Policy Represent an EU Prototype or just an Exception?
[Research Session 4]

McGrattan, Máire
The Transformative Capacity of EU Enlargement in Montenegro and Serbia since the 2004 Enlargement
[Research Session 3]

Mele, Valentina
Public Management Policy Change in Italy, 1993-2003: Issues, Entrepreneurs and Signals
[Research Session 2]

Meyer, Jan-Henrik
Tracing Transnationalism in the European Public Sphere: The Summit of The Hague 1969
[Research Session 2]

Mineshima-Lowe, Dale
Parliamentary Scrutiny of EU Criminal Law in Britain
[Research Session 6]

Molloy, Seán
Security Strategies of the USA and the EU: Competing or Complementary Visions of International Order?
[Research Session 5]

Monaghan, Elizabeth
Organised Civil Society and Communicating Europe to the Citizens
[Research Session 4]

Moore, Carolyn
Advertising Space? Polish and Czech Regional Representations in Brussels
[Research Session 6]

Moxon-Browne, Edward
The Role of the European Union in Post-Conflict Societies: The Case of Macedonia and the Western Balkans
[Research Session 1]

Murphy, Mary
The Dynamism of Europeanisation: Evidence from Northern Ireland
[Research Session 5]

Nakano, Satoshi
The European Social Dialogue: Where Does it Stand Now?
[Research Session 5]

Neuvonen, Mari
The Europeanization of National Parliaments: A Comparative Study of the UK, Finland, Poland and Estonia
[Research Session 5]

Nielsen, Steen
The EU-ACP Partnership: A Case Study of Europe's Economic and Political Capacity to Narrow the North-South Divide
[Research Session 2]

O'Brennan, John
EU Enlargement to Eastern and Southeastern Europe: The Expansion of Normative Power Europe
[Research Session 5]

Oikonomou, Iraklis
The Making of the European Defence Agency: The European Military-Industrial Capital as an ESDP Actor
[Research Session 3]

Olsen, Gorm Rye
The New Security Architecture and the Global Role of the EU
[Research Session 3]

O'Loghlin, Sinéad
The EU Framework for Content Regulation in a Converged Media Market
[Research Session 4]

O'Mahony, Jane
Joint paper with Brigid Laffan
Managing Europe: Critical Junctures and the Increasing Formalisation of the Irish Core Executive
[Research Session 6]

Özer, Yonca
Normative Power Europe and the Relations with Turkey
[Research Session 6]

Palmer, Rosanne
A Role for Regional Parliaments in EU Policy-Making? A Comparative Perspective
[Research Session 6]

Pardo, Sharon
Israel and the European Union: Approaches and Principles for an Israeli Grand-Strategy towards the EU
[Research Session 2]

Pedersen, Frands
The Cartoon Controversy: The Failure Danish and/or EU Public Diplomacy?
[Research Session 4]

Petricusic, Antonija
Minority Rights as the Component of the European Union’s Conditionality Policy in the Western Balkans
[Research Session 1]

Petrov, Peter
The Governance of the European Security and Defence Policy: Governance Capability and Policy Effectiveness
[Research Session 6]

Pfister, Thomas
Investigating the European Employment Strategy/the Lisbon Strategy from a Citizenship Perspective: Gender Equality in Germany, Hungary and the UK
[Research Session 5]

Phinnemore, David
Moldova: A Step too Far for EU Enlargement?
[Research Session 3]

Pomorska, Karolina
The Challenges of the Direct Neighbourhood: The European Union, Ukraine and Belarus after the 2004 Enlargement
[Research Session 1]

Pomorska, Karolina
Joint paper with Ana Juncos Garcia
The Deadlock that Never Happened? Impact of Enlargement on the Governance in CFSP Council Working Groups
[Research Session 5]

Quaglia, Lucia
Setting the Pace? Private Financial Interests and European Financial Market Integration
[Research Session 1]

Rees, Nicholas
The Institutional Dynamics of EU-UN Security Cooperation: Problems and Prospects
[Research Session 3]

Rees, Wyn
Externalising the EU’s Internal Security Regime
[Research Session 4]

Rittberger, Berthold
‘No integration without representation’: European Integration, Democratic Representation and the Origins of the European Communities
[Research Session 1]

Savkova, Lyubka
Next Stop, Evropa! Bulgarian Public Opinion and Support for Europe Prior to Accession
[Research Session 3]

Schmidt, André
Joint paper with Renate Ohr
Thinking in Institutional Alternatives: Tradable Deficit Permits Reanimating the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP)
[Research Session 1]

Schmidt-Felzmann, Anke
Too Many Cooks Spoil the Borscht? The Divergence of National Interests in EU Member States’ Policies Towards Russia
[Research Session 1]

Sepos, Angelos
Differentiated Integration: A Motor or Brake for European Integration?
[Research Session 6]

Sfaelos, Panagiotis
The EU Anti-Terrorist Legislation and its Implications: Enhancing Security or Limiting Democracy?
[Research Session 4]

Sepos, Angelos
Differentiated Integration: A Motor or Brake for European Integration?
[Research Session 6]

Shaw, Jo
Mainstreaming Equality and Diversity in European Union Law and Policy
[Research Session 3]

Smismans, Stijn
Joint paper with Nieves Pérez-Solórzano
The European Union and the Promotion of Social Dialogue in the New Member States
[Research Session 4]

Sonntag, Albrecht
Selective Perception, the Fossilization of Social Habitus and the Emotional Monopolies of the Nation-State: A Pluridisciplinary Approach to the Disaffection with the European Project
[Research Session 1]

Stéclebout-Orseau, Eloïse
Joint paper with Mark Hallerberg
Sending Credible Signals under the Stability and Growth Pact
[Research Session 5]

Stegmann McCallion, Malin
Multi-Level Governance in Sweden? An Analysis of the Regional Growth Programmes
[Research Session 4]

Steinnes, Kristian
Alternative Agendas? Transnational Socialism in Northern Europe 1959-72
[Research Session 2]

Stoykova, Pavlina
Europeanisation of Policy-Making in South-Eastern Europe: The Case of Bulgaria
[Research Session 4]

Taverniers, Liesbeth
Joint paper with Edith Vanden Brande
Horizontal Integration of Environmental Objectives in EU policies: The Cases of Transport and Finances
[Research Session 1]

Tavornmas, Ajaree
The EU’s Commercial and Business Engagement Strategies towards Asia: A Multi-Level Approach
[Research Session 6]

Theodoropoulou, Sotiria
Fighting European Unemployment: Is there a Substitutability Relation Between Labour Market Deregulation, Collective Wage Bargaining, Openness and the Monetary Policy Regime?
[Research Session 5]

Treib, Oliver
Joint paper with Gerda Falkner and Miriam Hartlapp
Worlds of Compliance: Why Leading Approaches to EU Implementation are Only ‘Sometimes-True Theories’
[Research Session 3]

Trouille, Jean-Marc
Creating Industrial ‘Champions’ in Europe? An Analysis of Franco-German Inter-Firm Linkages
[Research Session 6]

Tsoukala, Katerina
Joint paper with Aris Georgopoulos
European Armament Policy: Difficulties and Alternatives
[Research Session 6]

Verges-Bausili, Anna
Joint paper with Aileen McLeod
Legitimating EU Governance through National and Devolved Parliaments in the EU: The Case of the UK Parliament and the Scottish Parliament
[Research Session 4]

Vichitsorasatra, Natee
Bilateralism and Multilateralism: A Balancing Act for Material and Ideational ‘Cooperation’ between the EU and East Asia
[Research Session 6]

Vila Maior, Paulo
The European Union: a Case of Unconventional Fiscal Federalism?
[Research Session 3]

Vykoupilova, Hana
Political Parties in the Czech Republic and their Attitudes to European Federalism
[Research Session 4]

Wagner, Wolfgang
Joint paper with Sandra Lavenex
Which European Public Order? Sources of Imbalance in the European Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
[Research Session 5]

White, Stephen
Joint paper with Julia Korosteleva
Are Russians Europeans?
[Research Session 3]

Wilk, Katarzyna
What is Responsible for Variation of Citizens’ Attitudes to the EU: Country Pre-Accession Situation, Social Determinants or Social Mechanisms?
[Research Session 4]

Wilkinson, Mike
Sovereignty, Constitutionalism and Constitutional Dialogue in the EU
[Research Session 4]

Yollu, Aysel
Joint paper with Gabriele Somaggio
The Role of the Open Method of Coordination for the Unemployment Insurance
[Research Session 2]


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