RECON Online Working Paper 2008/10

*Deliberating CFSP
*European Foreign Policy and the International Criminal Court
<http://www.reconproject.eu/main.php/RECON_wp_0810.pdf?fileitem=5456226>
/Nicole Deitelhoff/

* Abstract: *The International Criminal Court (ICC) is viewed by many as  a success story for international governance and the beginning of a new era in international law. The Rome Statute was developed, resolved and came into force with an impressive speed, and some commentators suggest that this was due to the EU's proactive stance. In this paper, Nicole Deitelhoff traces the EU's policy from negotiations on the Rome Statute to the start of ICC operations, in order to examine whether this assumption is tenable.

RECON Online Working Paper 2008/09

*Interests or Principles?
*EU Foreign Policy in the ILO
<http://www.reconproject.eu/main.php/RECON_wp_0809.pdf?fileitem=16662552>
/Marianne Riddervold/

* Abstract: *This paper seeks to contribute to the debate about the role  of norms in EU foreign policy by looking at EU policies in the  International Labour Organization (ILO) in the making of a Consolidated Maritime Labour Convention (ILOMLC). By applying a framework that distinguishes between different types of norms, Marianne Riddervold provides a more nuanced picture of the argument that norms influence EU policies.

RECON Online Working Paper 2008/08

* The EU Constitutional Process*
A Failure of Political Representation?
<http://www.reconproject.eu/main.php/RECON_wp_0808.pdf?fileitem=16662530>
/Ben Crum/

* Abstract:* This paper proposes to assess the representative quality of EU decision-making by way of a micro-approach which traces the effectiveness of the mechanisms of representation that connect the European peoples to the decision-making process. By distinguishing between 'upstream' controls that delimit the mandate of political representatives and 'downstream' controls that allow political representatives to justify their decisions through deliberation, Ben Crum demonstrates that the EU Constitutional process has suffered from a lack of mechanisms for aligning politicians with public opinion.

RECON Online Working Paper 2008/07

*In Search of the European Public Sphere*
Between Normative Overstretch and Empirical Disenchantment
<http://www.reconproject.eu/main.php/RECON_wp_0807.pdf?fileitem=16662548>
/Hans-Jörg Trenz/

*Abstract: *In this paper Hans-Jörg Trenz argues that the tension between normative standards and legitimating practice should be considered as constitutive for the emergence of a European public sphere. Against recent attempts to define the European public sphere in purely descriptive terms, this implies the need to re-introduce the normativity of the public sphere as part of the dynamics of an evolving communicative space in Europe.

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