@phdthesis{Hanschmann2019,
  author    = {Hanschmann, Raffael Tino},
  title     = {Stalling the engine? EU climate politics after the 'Great Recession'},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-44044},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-440441},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {XXVIII, 303},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {This dissertation investigates the impact of the economic and fiscal crisis starting in 2008 on EU climate policy-making. While the overall number of adopted greenhouse gas emission reduction policies declined in the crisis aftermath, EU lawmakers decided to introduce new or tighten existing regulations in some important policy domains. Existing knowledge about the crisis impact on EU legislative decision-making cannot explain these inconsistencies. In response, this study develops an actor-centred conceptual framework based on rational choice institutionalism that provides a micro-level link to explain how economic crises translate into altered policy-making patterns. The core theoretical argument draws on redistributive conflicts, arguing that tensions between 'beneficiaries' and 'losers' of a regulatory initiative intensify during economic crises and spill over to the policy domain. To test this hypothesis and using social network analysis, this study analyses policy processes in three case studies: The introduction of carbon dioxide emission limits for passenger cars, the expansion of the EU Emissions Trading System to aviation, and the introduction of a regulatory framework for biofuels. The key finding is that an economic shock causes EU policy domains to polarise politically, resulting in intensified conflict and more difficult decision-making. The results also show that this process of political polarisation roots in the industry that is the subject of the regulation, and that intergovernmental bargaining among member states becomes more important, but also more difficult in times of crisis.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Patz2013,
  author    = {Patz, Ronny},
  title     = {Information flows in the context of EU policy-making : affiliation networks and the post-2012 reform of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-70732},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Information flows in EU policy-making are heavily dependent on personal networks, both within the Brussels sphere but also reaching outside the narrow limits of the Belgian capital. These networks develop for example in the course of formal and informal meetings or at the sidelines of such meetings. A plethora of committees at European, transnational and regional level provides the basis for the establishment of pan-European networks. By studying affiliation to those committees, basic network structures can be uncovered. These affiliation network structures can then be used to predict EU information flows, assuming that certain positions within the network are advantageous for tapping into streams of information while others are too remote and peripheral to provide access to information early enough. This study has tested those assumptions for the case of the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy for the time after 2012. Through the analysis of an affiliation network based on participation in 10 different fisheries policy committees over two years (2009 and 2010), network data for an EU-wide network of about 1300 fisheries interest group representatives and more than 200 events was collected. The structure of this network showed a number of interesting patterns, such as - not surprisingly - a rather central role of Brussels-based committees but also close relations of very specific interests to the Brussels-cluster and stronger relations between geographically closer maritime regions. The analysis of information flows then focused on access to draft EU Commission documents containing the upcoming proposal for a new basic regulation of the Common Fisheries Policy. It was first documented that it would have been impossible to officially obtain this document and that personal networks were thus the most likely sources for fisheries policy actors to obtain access to these "leaks" in early 2011. A survey of a sample of 65 actors from the initial network supported these findings: Only a very small group had accessed the draft directly from the Commission. Most respondents who obtained access to the draft had received it from other actors, highlighting the networked flow of informal information in EU politics. Furthermore, the testing of the hypotheses connecting network positions and the level of informedness indicated that presence in or connections to the Brussels sphere had both advantages for overall access to the draft document and with regard to timing. Methodologically, challenges of both the network analysis and the analysis of information flows but also their relevance for the study of EU politics have been documented. In summary, this study has laid the foundation for a different way to study EU policy-making by connecting topical and methodological elements - such as affiliation network analysis and EU committee governance - which so far have not been considered together, thereby contributing in various ways to political science and EU studies.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Hornig2009,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Hornig, Anja},
  title     = {Die Auswirkungen irregul{\"a}rer Migration auf die Europ{\"a}isch-Afrikanischen Beziehungen : Partnerschaft auf Augenh{\"o}he? Anspruch und Wirklichkeit der Kooperation},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-38691},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Frage, welche Auswirkung die Zunahme irregul{\"a}rer Migration aus den Gebieten Afrikas s{\"u}dlich der Sahara in die Europ{\"a}ische Union (EU) auf die politischen Beziehungen der Regionen zueinander hat. Wissenschaftliche Arbeiten zu internationaler und irregul{\"a}rer Migration und ihrer Auswirkung auf die Internationalen Beziehungen sind bisher die Ausnahme. Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag dazu, diese L{\"u}cke zu f{\"u}llen und Migration aus einer politikwissenschaftlichen Perspektive zu beleuchten. Durch eine fundierte Analyse k{\"o}nnen Politikstrategien der Afrikanischen und der Europ{\"a}ischen Seite aufgezeigt, die Chancen der Interessensdurchsetzung bewertet und die Wirkung der Kooperation auf die Problematik der irregul{\"a}ren Migration eingesch{\"a}tzt werden. Die Arbeit baut auf den g{\"a}ngigen Theorien der Internationalen Beziehungen auf, die Hypothesen beruhen auf einer Gegen{\"u}berstellung der kooperationspolitischen Annahmen des Neorealismus und des neoliberalen Institutionalismus. Die empirische {\"U}berpr{\"u}fung beruht auf einer qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse zug{\"a}nglicher Dokumente und Vertr{\"a}ge der EU und der African Union (AU) sowie der Westafrikanischen Regionalorganisation ECOWAS. Erg{\"a}nzt wird die Dokumentenstudie um Experteninterviews mit afrikanischen Botschaftern in Berlin. Die Arbeit kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Zunahme irregul{\"a}rer Migration zu einer Ver{\"a}nderung in der Europ{\"a}isch-Afrikanischen Kooperation gef{\"u}hrt hat. Migrationspolitik ist zu einem strategischen Bereich der EU-Außenpolitik gegen{\"u}ber Afrika geworden. In der Europ{\"a}ischen Politik {\"u}berwiegen trotz Anerkennung der entwicklungspolitischen M{\"o}glichkeiten regul{\"a}rer Migration restriktive Ans{\"a}tze. Diese wirken sich nachteilig auf die Afrikanischen Herkunftsl{\"a}nder aus und beg{\"u}nstigen eine weitere Zunahme irregul{\"a}rer Migration. Um angemessene Politikstrategien zu entwickeln ist aufgrund einer nicht zu erwartenden Ver{\"a}nderung der Europ{\"a}ischen Politik insbesondere die Afrikanische Seite gefragt. Hier dominierte in der Vergangenheit eine kritische Haltung gegen{\"u}ber Personenfreiz{\"u}gigkeit. Erst seit kurzem kommt es zu einer abgestimmten supranationalen Positionierung auf ECOWAS- und AU-Ebene, in der positive Wirkungen regul{\"a}rer Migration anerkannt werden. Diese spiegeln sich aber bisher nicht in nationalstaatlichen Politiken wider.},
  language  = {de}
}
@misc{Meyer2007,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Meyer, Eike},
  title     = {Democracy promotion by the European Union in Morocco within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19591},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {The intention of this master-thesis is a critical assessment of the European Union´s (EU) approach to external democracy promotion in Morocco. The study follows a comparative approach and compares the approach pursued by the EU within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), incepted in 2004, with the approach that it had developed up until then under the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP). The comparison is done with the intention to analyse, to what degree it is justified to speak of a new impetus for democratisation through the ENP in partner countries. The analysis takes into consideration the range of possible instruments for external democracy promotion in the categories „diplomacy", „conditionality" and „positive instruments". For the comparison of democracy promotion under the EMP and the ENP it is suggested to compare the implemented measures in respect to three distinct dimensions: As a first dimension, instruments of democracy promotion are analysed with respect to the focus on indirect vs. direct instruments, e.g. those which aim at establishing socio-economic preconditions favourable to successful democratisation, vs. those which immediately intervene in the processes of political reform. As a second dimension, it is asked whether there has been a shift in the democracy promotion approach on a continuum between consensual cooptation and coercive intervention. As a third dimension, finally, it is analysed whether the approach has undergone a general intensification of efforts, e.g. whether the approach to democracy promotion has become a more active one. The analysis in this master-thesis comes to the conclusion that since the inception of the ENP the EU is indeed pursuing a slightly more direct and certainly a more active approach to democracy promotion in Morocco, while no significant change can be observed in comparison to the strictly partnership-oriented and consensual approach of the EMP. It can be argued that, under the ENP, relations to Morocco have indeed become somewhat more "political", although at the same time they are still not pro-actively oriented at a political liberalisation of the political regime. Reforms promoted by the EU in Morocco are modest and largely in line with the reform agenda of the Morrocan government itself - e.g. a still largely authoritarian monarchy. Concrete reform steps directed at an opening of the political space, which is largely reserved to the king and its administration, are neither demanded nor supported by democracy promotion instruments, also under the ENP.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Kestermann2006,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Kestermann, Carsten},
  title     = {Die ESVP als Konkurrent zur NATO? : Entwicklungen, Analysen und Strategieaussichten einer europ{\"a}ischen Verteidigungsdimension},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-8102},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Diese Arbeit untersucht die Hypothese inwieweit EU/ESVP und NATO sich in einem Konkurrenzkampf befinden. Dabei werden mehrere Dimensionen beleuchtet. Der zeitliche Aspekt, der organisatorische, der ideengeschichtliche und die spezielle Situation im Politikfeld Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik. Auf Grundlage dieser Parameter wird eine Einsch{\"a}tzung bez{\"u}glich der aufgestellten These f{\"u}r die Gegenwart vorgenommen, sowie eine Strategieempfehlung f{\"u}r die n{\"a}here Zukunft gemacht.},
  subject      = {NATO / Schnelle Eingreiftruppe},
  language  = {de}
}