Negotiating European Union [Hardcover]

The European Union can be perceived as an enormous bilateral and multilateral process of internal and external negotiation. This book examines negotiations within member states, between member states, within and between the institutions of the Union and between the EU and other countries. It also analyzed processes, actors and interests. This book is, therefore, a unique probe into the relatively unknown arena of negotiation processes in the European Union.The EU as the Epitome of a Negotiating Process; F.Cede The EU as a Negotiations Arena. Diplomats, Experts and PAM Professionals; R.van Schendelen What Happens at Home - Negotiating EU Policy at the Domestic Level; M.van Keulen The Role of the Member States in the European Union; P.J. Langenberg EU Institutions and IGC Negotiations: How the EU Negotiation Process Affects Institutions' Ability to Gain Influence in IGCs; D.Beach What Kind of Negotiation does 'Consensus Decision-Making' Involve?; D.Heisenberg Negotiation and Mediation in the EU Council of Ministers; O.Elgstr?m Member States Operating in the EU Council of Ministers, Inside Impressions; L.J.Bal The European Council under Construction: EU Top Level Decision Making at the beginning of a New Century; P.C.J. van Grinsven Cookbook of the Presidency of the European Union; A.Guggenb?hl Negotiating the Enlargement; A.Landau European Union Negotiation; P.MeertsLEENDERT J. BAL Transport Attach? at the Netherlands Permanent Representation at the European Union in Brussels, Belgium DEREK BEACH University of Aarhus, Denmark OLEG ELGSTR?M Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden PETER C. J. VAN GRINSVEN Netherlands Institute of International Relations Clingendael ALAIN GUGGENB?HL European Institute of Public Administration, The Netherlands DOROTHEE HEISENBERG Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, USA MENDELTJE VAN KEULEN Netherlands Institute for International Affairs,The Netherlands ALICE LANDAU University of Gel#