TY - BOOK

T1 - Opting Out of the European Union

T2 - Diplomacy, Sovereignty and European Integration

AU - Adler-Nissen, Rebecca

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - European integration continues to deepen despite major crises and attempts to take back sovereignty. A growing number of member states are reacting to a more constraining EU by negotiating opt-outs. This book provides the first in-depth account of how opt-outs work in practice. It examines the most controversial cases of differentiated integration: the British and Danish opt-outs from Economic and Monetary Union and European policies on borders, asylum, migration, internal security and justice. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with national representatives and EU officials, the author demonstrates how representatives manage the stigma of opting out, allowing them to influence even politically sensitive areas covered by their opt-outs. Developing a practice approach to European integration, the book shows how everyday negotiations transform national interests into European ideals. It is usually assumed that states opt out to preserve sovereignty, but Adler-Nissen argues that national opt-outs may actually reinforce the integration process.

AB - European integration continues to deepen despite major crises and attempts to take back sovereignty. A growing number of member states are reacting to a more constraining EU by negotiating opt-outs. This book provides the first in-depth account of how opt-outs work in practice. It examines the most controversial cases of differentiated integration: the British and Danish opt-outs from Economic and Monetary Union and European policies on borders, asylum, migration, internal security and justice. Drawing on over one hundred interviews with national representatives and EU officials, the author demonstrates how representatives manage the stigma of opting out, allowing them to influence even politically sensitive areas covered by their opt-outs. Developing a practice approach to European integration, the book shows how everyday negotiations transform national interests into European ideals. It is usually assumed that states opt out to preserve sovereignty, but Adler-Nissen argues that national opt-outs may actually reinforce the integration process.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - EU

KW - Europa

KW - Danmark

KW - forbehold

KW - politik

KW - ØMU

KW - suverænitet

KW - diplomati

KW - integration

KW - Europæisk integration

KW - Bourdieu

KW - Goffman

KW - felt-teori

KW - Politisk teori

KW - Interview

KW - feltarbejde

KW - politisk sociologi

KW - praksis

KW - Brexit

KW - EU

KW - United Kingdom

KW - Eurozone

KW - Migration

KW - Diplomacy

KW - European Integration

KW - International Relations

KW - sovereignty

KW - opt-out

KW - Differentiated integration

KW - flexible integration

KW - national idenitity

KW - Practice Theory

KW - Political sociology

KW - International Political Sociology

U2 - 10.1017/CBO9781107337916

DO - 10.1017/CBO9781107337916

M3 - Book

SN - 9781107618343

BT - Opting Out of the European Union

PB - Cambridge University Press

ER -