Sandra Lavenex, Professor for in International Relations and Global Governance - Major Fields of Research
1. External effects of European integration
The process of European integration has been mainly analysed by looking its driving forces and at the effects of integration on the Member States. The external effects of European integration on third states and international organisations however have not been systematically studied. Accordingly, a main focus of the section is evaluating the mechanisms and institutional forms that the external effects of European integration take. Particular attention is paid to the expansion of the EUropean regulatory scope, and its consequences to our understanding of power and hegemony both within and beyond Europe.
Projects and publications on this topic
NCCR-Projekt "Inside Out" (New Modes of Governance in Relations with Non-Member States)
Journal of European Public Policy Volume 16, Issue 6, 2009
Sandra Lavenex and Frank Schimmelfennig (eds.): EU External Governance, 2010- Externe Effekte europäischer Integration
- EU und internationale Demokratieförderung
- Internationale Migrationspolitik
- Demokratie in der Europäischen Union
- Hegemonie und Politiktransfer in der Weltwirtschaft
Externe Effekte europäischer Integration
Der europäische Integrationsprozess ist bisher vor allem in Hinblick auf seine internen Antriebskräfte und seine Rückwirkungen auf die Mitgliedsstaaten erforscht worden. Seine externen Auswirkungen auf Drittstaaten und internationale Organisationen hingegen sind bisher kaum systematisch untersucht worden. Dieser Forschungsschwerpunkt des Lehrstuhls für Internationale Beziehungen und Global Governance untersucht die Mechanismen und institutionellen Formen der Aussenwirkungen europäischer Integration; analysiert deren Konsequenzen in Bezug auf eine faktische Ausweitung des Geltungsraumes EUropäischer Regelungen; und fragt nach der Bedeutung dieser externen Effekte für unser Verständnis von Macht und Hegemonie in und jenseits Europas.
Projekt zum Schwerpunkt
EU FP6-Projekt "Inside-Out" (New Modes of Governance in Relations with Non-Member States)
Veröffentlichungen zum Schwerpunkt
"EU External Governance", special issue of Journal of European Public Policy, 16 (6)6, 2009 (co-edited with Frank Schimmelfennig).
"Switzerland’s flexible integration in the European Union", special issue of Swiss Political Science Review, 15 (4), 2009 (co-edited with Dirk Lehmkuhl).
"Concentric Circles of ‘EUropean’ integration: A Typology of EU External Governance Relations", Comparative European Politics, 9 (4/5), 2009, 372-393.
"EU rules beyond EU borders: theorizing external governance in European politics", Journal of European Public Policy, 16 (6), 2009, 791-812 (with Frank Schimmelfennig).
"Modes of external governance: a cross-national and cross-sectoral comparison", Journal of European Public Policy, special issue on EU External Governance, 16 (6), 2009, 813-833 (with Dirk Lehmkuhl and Nicole Wichmann).
"Switzerland’s flexible integration in the EU: A conceptual framework", Swiss Political Science Review, special issue on Switzerland’s flexible integration in the EU, 15 (4), 2009, 547-575.
"Switzerland in the European Research Area. Integration without Legislation", Swiss Political Science Review, special issue on Switzerland’s flexible integration in the EU, 15 (4), 2009, 629-651.
"The External Governance of EU Internal Security", Journal of European Integration, 31 (1), 2009, 83-102 (with Nicole Wichmann).
"A Governance Perspective on the European Neighbourhood Policy: Integration Beyond Conditionality?", Journal of European Public Policy, 15 (6), 2008, 938-955.
"The external dimension of Europeanisation", Cooperation & Conflict, 39 (4), 2004, 417–443 (with Emek M. Uçarer).
"EU external governance in wider Europe", Journal of European Public Policy, 11 (4), 2004, 680-700.
EU und internationale Demokratieförderung
The project explored the question of how and under what conditions the European Union promotes democracy in neighboring countries of Eastern Europe and Northern Africa. These neighbouring states, including among others Ukraine and Moldavia to the East as well as Morocco and Jordan to the South, still require considerable progress before being seen as consolidated democracies. The EU took a significant step forward in its relations with its neighbours with the founding of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in 2003, the most important goals of which were the strengthening of the rule of law and promotion of democracy and welfare. In this project, we distinguished between three mechanisms of external democracy promotion: leverage, that is top-down democratization through the use of conditionality; linkage, that is bottom-up support for civil society and modernization; and governance, a new model of democratic governance promotion through transgovernmental networking and functional cooperation. Our results show that in contrast to the leverage model, whose success is linked to the incentive of EU membership, and linkage, which, in EU external relations, has remained relatively weak, the governance model of democracy promotion is capable of inducing subtle democratic changes in authoritarian contexts. Our research suggests that two factors are particularly conducive to the successful adoption of elements of democratic governance by a non-democratic country: the strong codification of rules of democratic governance in the international documents promoted by the EU and a high institutionalization of cooperation between the EU actors and the partner state.
Projekt zum Schwerpunkt
NCCR Projekt "Promoting democracy in the EU and its near abroad"
Veröffentlichungen zum Schwerpunkt
Sandra Lavenex and Frank Schimmelfennig (eds.), "Democracy Promotion in the EU’s Neighbourhood: from Leverage to Governance?", special issue of Democratization, 18 (4), 2011.
Sandra Lavenex and Frank Schimmelfennig, "EU Democracy Promotion in the Neighbourhood: From Leverage to Governance?", Democratization, 18 (4), 2011.
Tina Freyburg, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig, Tatiana Skripka and Anne Wetzel, "Democracy Promotion Through Functional Cooperation? The case of the European Neighbourhood Policy", Democratization, 18 (4), 2011, 1026-1054.
Tina Freyburg, Sandra Lavenex, Frank Schimmelfennig, Tatiana Skripka and Anne Wetzel, "EU promotion of democratic governance in the neighbourhood", Journal of European Public Policy, 16 (6), 2009, 916-934.
Internationale Migrationspolitik
Migrationspolitik wird häufig als Ausnahmeerscheinung im allgemeinen Trend in Richtung einer stärkeren internationalen Zusammenarbeit in grenzüberschreitenden Fragen gesehen. Trotz eines anhaltenden und sich verschärfenden Handlungsdrucks verwehren sich die Staaten bisher gegen umfassende internationale Regelungen in diesem Bereich. Im Gegensatz zur internationalen Ebene untersucht dieser Forschungsschwerpunkte neue Formen der Zusammenarbeit, welche sich auf der regionalen (EU, Afrika, Amerika) und bilateralen Ebene (zwischen Aufnahme- udn Herkunfsstaaten von MigrantInnen) entwicklen.
Projekte zum Schwerpunkt
NCCR Projekt "Venue-Shopping in International Migration Governance", im
Rahmen des National Centres for Competence in Research "Trade Regulation"
SNIS Projekt "Migration Partnerships: A Step towards the Global Governance of International Migration?"
European Migration Policy Dialogue
Veröffentlichungen zum Schwerpunkt
"International Migration", in W. Carlsnaes, T. Risse and B. Simmons (eds., forthcoming), Handbook of International Relations, London: Sage (with Gallya Lahav).
Rahel Kunz, Sandra Lavenex, Marion Panizzon (eds.): Multilayered Migration Governance: The Promise of Partnership, 2011; more information about this book
"Introduction. Governance through partnerships in international migration", in: Rahel Kunz, Sandra Lavenex and Marion Panizzon (eds.), Multilayered Migration Governance. The Promise of Partnership, London: Routledge 2011 (with Rahel Kunz and Marion Panizzon).
"’Partnering’ for Migration in EU External Relations", in : Rahel Kunz, Sandra Lavenex and Marion Panizzon (eds.), Multilayered Migration Governance. The Promise of Partnership, London: Routledge 2011 (with Rachel Stucky).
"The Migration-Development Nexus in EU External Relations", Journal of European Integration, 30 (3), 2008, 439–457 (with Rahel Kunz).
"Towards a Constitutionalization of Aliens’ Rights in the European
Union?", Journal of European Public Policy, 13 (8), 2006, 1284-1301.
"Shifting Up and Out: the Foreign Policy of European Immigration
Control", West European Politics, 29 (2), 2006, 329-350. (Awarded the Vincent Wright Prize by West European Politics)
Demokratie in der Europäischen Union
Dieser Forschungsschwerpunkt zielt auf eine empirische Überprüfung normativer Theorien zur demokratischen Qualität EUropäischen Regierens. Ausgehend von der Auffassung dass die EU einem doppelten Repräsentationserfordernis unterliegt, demjenigen gegenüber den Individuen (den Bürgern) und demjenigen gegenüber den kollektiven Gemeinschaften (Staatsvölkern), untersucht das Projekt Formen transnationaler, vertikaler und horizontaler Legitimation im EU-System.
Projekt zum Schwerpunkt
NCCR Projekt Designing "Demoicracy" in Europe
