National Interests and European Integration

This study combines an account of Blair, Chirac, Schröder and their attitudes towards European integration. It analyzes political discourses on 'national interests' and the EU, the frequently debated role of political discourse, the concept of national interest, and offers an alternative point of view on intergovernmental interaction.

Autorentext
KATRIN MILZOW is Head of Strategic Planning and Controlling at the Swiss National Science Foundation in Bern, Switzerland. An Oxford graduate, she has in the past worked at the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland, from which she holds a PhD in International History and Politics, and done research at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has previously published on the European Union's security and defense policy, the eastern enlargement of the EU, as well as relations between UNHCR and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Inhalt
Introduction The Common Agricultural Policy: A European Agricultural Model between Sectoral and 'National' Interests? The Eastern Enlargement: Ideals, Interests and Integration The European Security and Defence Policy from 'National' to 'European' Interests? Conclusion: Discourse and Politics of 'National Interest' in a Changing European Union