Collective Power Europe? (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture 2022)

Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, the EU has been tested and contested as it struggled to come to terms with a series of crises, sometimes labelled a polycrisis. In response to crises, the EU has emerged as a collective power and the concept ‘Collective Power Europe’ (CPE) offe...

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Published in:Government and opposition (London) 2023-10, Vol.58 (4), p.623-640
Main Author: Laffan, Brigid
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coordination
COVID-19
Economic crisis
EU membership
International finance
International organizations
International relations
Leadership
Pandemics
Politics
Power
Pragmatism
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Summary:Since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008, the EU has been tested and contested as it struggled to come to terms with a series of crises, sometimes labelled a polycrisis. In response to crises, the EU has emerged as a collective power and the concept ‘Collective Power Europe’ (CPE) offers a promising lens with which to analyse the 21st-century European Union and the nature of the polity that is emerging. The aim of this article is to unpack the concept of CPE and to analyse its core features – collective leadership and framing, institutional coordination and the evolving policy toolkit – in response to three crises: Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine.
ISSN:0017-257X
1477-7053
DOI:10.1017/gov.2022.52