Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration

1. Introduction
Derek Beach, Colette Mazzucelli

2. The EU Presidency: France in the 2000 IGC
Jonas Tallberg

3. Drawing Lessons in the Chair: Assessing the Dutch Presidency’s Impact during the Maastricht and Amsterdam Conferences
Colette Mazzucelli

4. The EU Presidency – Comparing the Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003–04 Intergovernmental Conference
Ben Crum

5. Oiling the Wheels of Compromise: The Council Secretariat in the 1996–97 and 2003–4 IGCs
Derek Beach

6. Leader or Bystander? The European Commission and EU Treaty Reform
Hussein Kassim, Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos

7. A Formal Outsider Becomes an Effective Player: The European Parliament in the Negotiation of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Constitutional Treaty
Andreas Maurer

8. Big versus Small: Shared Leadership in the EU and Power Politics in the Convention
Simone Bunse, Paul Magnette, Kalypso Nicolaïdis

9. Cooperative Hegemon, Missing Engine or Improbable Core? Explaining French–German Influence in European Treaty Reform
Colette Mazzucelli, Ulrike Guérot, Almut Metz

10. Britain and the European Union: A Laggard Leader?
Alasdair Blair

11. The Constitutional Treaty and Poland – A New Laggard in the EU?
Krzysztof Bobiński

12. Is There Anyone in Charge? Leadership in EU Constitutional Negotiations
Renaud Dehousse, Florence Deloche-Gaudez

13. Conclusions
Derek Beach, Colette Mazzucelli

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Comparative Politics, International Relations, European Union Politics, Political Science