Date: 2022
Type: Article
Policy learning and European integration
Journal of common market studies, 2022, Vol. 60, No. S1, pp. 12-25
RADAELLI, Claudio M., Policy learning and European integration, Journal of common market studies, 2022, Vol. 60, No. S1, pp. 12-25
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There are many ways to describe the European Union (EU) in 2021, but crisis and learning are particularly appropriate. Crisis management and crisis response have marked the whole of 2021 (and even more so 2022), to the point that some have correctly described the growth of crisis-related organizational features, tasks, missions and policies as indicators of the maturation of the EU as polity (Boin and Rhinard, 2022). ‘Crisis’ (in whatever morphology) is here to stay and has impacted on how the EU thinks and works (Mèrand, 2021). To accept, politically and in terms of policy instrumentation, the presence of different and often overlapping crises, and to generate policy responses is now a typical (as opposed to exceptional) ‘way of doing things’ in the EU. In the long term, this is also a ‘way of doing integration’ – a point that was not lost in classic theories of European integration (Ferrara and Kriesi, 2022). A crisis provides a formidable threat to integration. But it also creates a decision-making window of opportunity wider than normal-times windows. How the EU approaches this opportunity is crucial: it can be a disaster or a positive discontinuity, a leap into further integration. After all, ‘Europe will be forged in crisis’ famously wrote Jean Monnet in his Mémoires (1976). Can we then look at integration, to carry on with Monnet, as the cumulative effects of the responses to crises? If there is a connection between crisis and integration, it is reasonable to think that learning is a possible result of the ‘way of managing and responding to crises’.
Additional information:
Published online: 24 October 2022; This was delivered as a lecture to the School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute, Florence, 25 November 2022.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74976
Full-text via DOI: 10.1111/jcms.13432
ISSN: 1468-5965; 0021-9886
Publisher: Wiley
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This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Wiley Transformative Agreement (2020-2023)
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