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The Road To Maastricht: Negotiating Economic and Monetary Union

Kenneth Dyson and Kevin Featherstone

Abstract

Structuralist explanations have dominated attempts to explain the process of European integration. However, as the negotiation of Economic and Monetary Union shows, policy leadership has been critical in launching, shaping, and sustaining this process. This leadership goes beyond policy entrepreneurship in setting the agenda to include the management of institutional venues in the pursuit of particular objectives.

Keywords: Britain, Bundesbank, Central banks, Jacques Delors, EMU, European Union, Italy, Helmut Kohl, Maastricht Treaty, François Mitterrand

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 1999 Print ISBN-13: 9780198296386
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 DOI:10.1093/019829638X.001.0001

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Kenneth Dyson, author
University of Bradford
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Kevin Featherstone, author
University of Bradford
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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: An Historical Overview

1 Making Sense of the EMU Negotiations

2 EMU, the Mitterrand Presidency, and French Political Tradition

3 The Political Problem of Reconciling Domestic and International Interests in EMU: The Legacy of Barre, Giscard D'estaing, and Pompidou

4 Challenging the ‘D‐Mark Zone’: Agenda‐Setting on EMU and the Strategy of Indirection Under Mitterrand, 1981–1989

5 French Strategy for the IGC: Making EMU Irreversible

6 EMU, the Kohl Chancellorship, and German Political Tradition: The Legacy of Adenauer and Erhard

7 The Political Problem of Reconciling Domestic and International Interests in EMU: The Legacy of Schiller and Schmidt

8 Negotiating EMU Around the German Model: Agenda‐Setting Under the Kohl Chancellorship, 1982–1989

9 German Strategy for the IGC

10 Italian Policy Beliefs About EMU: External Discipline Versus Internal Protection

11 Framing EMU as a New Vincolo Esterno: Policy Entrepreneurs, Co‐Ordination, and Reflection in Italy, 1988–1990

12 Italy and the IGC: Negotiating External Discipline, Avoiding Exclusion, 1990–1991

13 The British Political Tradition and EMU: Policy Legacies, Beliefs, and Co‐Ordination

14 Resisting EMU: Political Strategy, Policy Entrepreneurship, and Policy Reflection Before the IGC

15 John Major: Between the Party and the IGC

16 Jacques Delors as Policy Entrepreneur and Ingénieur of the EMU Negotiations: Agenda‐Setting and Oiling the Wheels

17 Conclusions and Reflections

End Matter

Appendix: List of Interviewees

References

Name Index

Index