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Bellicist integration? : The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers
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Journal of European public policy, 2022, Vol. 29, No. 12, pp. 1885-1900
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GENSCHEL, Philipp, Bellicist integration? : The war in Ukraine, the European Union and core state powers, Journal of European public policy, 2022, Vol. 29, No. 12, pp. 1885-1900 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76092
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Kelemen and McNamara claim that the imbalance between the EU’s strong regulatory authority and weak capacity in core state powers reflects its peaceful origins: the EU lacks coercive force, fiscal autonomy and administrative grip because it never had to confront a serious military threat. Will the emergence of such a threat suffice to correct the imbalance? As I argue theoretically, military threats have ambiguous effects on integration. They can fuel center-formation and capacity-building, as Kelemen and McNamara suggest, but also block it. As I show empirically, the military threat posed by the Russian attack of Ukraine in February 2022 has triggered very little EU capacity-building so far. I observe almost no centralization of core state powers but rather a strengthening of national powers with the support of EU institutions: ‘bellicist integration’ rather than ‘bellicist state-building’.
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Published online: 04 November 2022