The Oxford Encyclopedia of European Union Politics

Finn Laursen is a Danish political scientist. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, where he was a professor of International Politics from 1999 to 2006. From 2006 to 2013, he held the Canada Research Chair in European Union Studies at Dalhousie University, where he also directed the EU Centre of Excellence. Since 2007, he has held a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam. In recent years, his research has focused on European integration, especially the making and reforms of the EU's constitutive treaties as well as successive enlargements of the EU and the EU's role in the global system. He has also conducted comparative research on regional integration, including NAFTA, MERCOSUR, and ASEAN. His current research is focused on the EU's trade policy, Brexit, and the EU's marine and maritime policies.

A
The African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) Group of States: From the Lomé Convention to the Cotonou Agreement and Beyond (Maurizio Carbone)
African Union and European Union Politics: The Veiled Account of Long-Standing Interregional Relations (Christopher Changwe Nshimbi)
The Amsterdam Treaty (Sophie Vanhoonacker)
Applying, Enforcing, and Implementing European Union Rules (Gerda Falkner)
Arctic Policy in the European Union (Njord Wegge and Cristina-Elena Merticaru)
The Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) (Lay Hwee Yeo)
Asylum Policy and European Union Politics (Ariadna Ripoll Servent and Natascha Zaun)
Austria and the European Union (Paul Luif)

B
The Banking Union in Europe (Lucia Quaglia)
Belgium and the European Union (Edith Drieskens)
The BRICS Countries and the European Union (Bas Hooijmaaijers and Stephan Keukeleire)
Budgetary Treaties and European Union Politics (Finn Laursen)
Bulgaria and the European Union (Dimitar Bechev)

C
Canada and the European Union (Kurt Hübner and James Anderson)
Chile and the European Union (Maria Garcia)
China and the European Union (Emil Kirchner)
Citizenship of the European Union (Willem Maas)
Climate Policy in European Union Politics (Tom Delreux and Frauke Ohler)
Cohesion Policy and European Union Politics (Simona Piattoni and Laura Polverari)
Comitology: Controlling Everyday Rule-Making in the European Union (Jens Blom-Hansen)
The Common Agricultural Policy: A Case of Embedded Liberalism (Christilla Roederer-Rynning)
The Common Commercial Policy (Johan Adriaensen)
The Common Fisheries Policy (Troels Jacob Hegland and Jesper Raakjaer)
The Common Foreign and Security Policy (Hylke Dijkstra and Sophie Vanhoonacker)
The Common Security and Defense Policy (Simon Duke)
The Constitutional Treaty and European Union Politics (Derek Beach)
Consumer Policy and European Union Politics (Hans-W. Micklitz)
The Council of Ministers of the European Union (Jeffrey Lewis)
Croatia and the European Union (Pero Maldini)
Cyprus and the European Union (Stelios Stavridis and Charalambos Tsardanidis)
The Czech Republic and the European Union (Lenka Anna Rovná and Jan Rovny)

D
Democratic Backsliding in the European Union (Nick Sitter and Elisabeth Bakke)
Democratic Deficit in the European Union (Christine Neuhold)
Denmark and the European Union (Anders Wivel)
Development Policy and European Union Politics (Karin Arts)
Differentiated Integration and European Union Politics (Frank Schimmelfennig)

E
The Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) (Lucia Quaglia)
Energy Policy and European Union Politics (Anna Herranz- Surrallés)
Enlargement Policy and European Union Politics (Eli Gateva)
Environmental Policy and European Union Politics (Diarmuid Torney)
Estonia and the European Union (Tanel Kerikmäe, Holger Mölder, and Archil Chochia)
The European Central Bank (Amy Verdun)
The European Commission (Hussein Kassim)
The European Council: the Fascination and Frustration of Studying a Key Institution (Wolfgang Wessels and Linda Dieke)
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) (Sabine Saurugger and Fabien Terpan)
The European Defence Community (Richard Griffiths)
European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) and Committee of the Regions (CoR) (Diana Panke)
The European External Action Service (EEAS) (Ana E. Juncos and Karolina Pomorska)
The European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) (Meltem Müftüler-Baç)
The European Parliament: A Normal Parliament in a Polity of a Different Kind (Ariadna Ripoll Servent and Christilla Roederer-Rynning)
European Political Cooperation (EPC) (Elfriede Regelsberger)
The European Stability Mechanism and the Fiscal Compact in European Integration (Sandrino Smeets)
European Union Governance (Ingeborg Tömmel)
The European Union's Community Method: Foundations and Evolution (Youri Devuyst)
The European Union Space Policy (Emmanuel Sigalas)
Europeanization (Søren Dosenrode)
Euroskepticism, a Multifaceted Phenomenon (Patrick Bijsmans)
The Eurozone Crises (Kurt Hübner)

F
Federalism as a Theory of Regional Integration (Søren Dosenrode)
Finland and the European Union (Teija Tiilikainen)
The Food Policy of the European Union (Sevasti Chatzopoulou)
France and the European Union (Christian Lequesne and Avtansh Behal)
Future Scenarios of the European Union (Brigid Laffan)

G
Gender Equality Policies and European Union Politics (Christina Fiig)
Germany and the European Union (Simon Bulmer)
Greece and the European Union (Spyros Blavoukos)

H
Higher Education Policy in the European Union (Dorota Dakowska)
Historical Institutionalism in the Study of European Integration (Thomas Christiansen and Amy Verdun)
Humanitarian Aid and the European Union (Francesca Pusterla and Elia Pusterla)
Hungary and the European Union (Robert Csehi)

I
Iceland and European Integration (Baldur Thorhallsson)
Immigration Policy and European Union Politics (Natascha Zaun and Christof Roos)
India and the European Union (Rajendra K. Jain)
Interest Organizations and European Union Politics (Justin Greenwood)
Intergovernmentalism: Old, Liberal, and New (Amy Verdun)
The Internal Market of the European Union: From Indivisibility to Differentiated Integration (Michelle Egan)
Iran and European Union Politics (Sebastian Harnisch)
Ireland and the European Union (Ben Tonra)
Israel and the European Union (Sharon Pardo)
Italy and the European Union (Federiga Bindi)

J
Japan and the European Union (Hitoshi Suzuki, Yu Suzuki, and Yoshimi Igawa)
Justice and Home Affairs in the European Union (Florian Trauner and Ariadna Ripoll Servent)

K
Kosovo and the European Union (Spyros Economides)

L
Latvia and the European Union (Edgars Eihmanis)
Leadership in the European Union (Lisbeth Aggestam and Markus Johansson)
The Legal History of the European Union: Building a European Constitution (Morten Rasmussen)
Legitimacy and European Union Politics (Achim Hurrelmann)
Liberal Intergovernmentalism (Andrew Moravcsik)
The Lisbon Strategy and Europe 2020 (Annette Bongardt and Francisco Torres)
The Lisbon Treaty (Jacques Ziller)
Lithuania and the European Union (Ramunas Vilpisauskas)
Luxembourg and the European Union (Robert Harmsen and Anna-Lena Högenauer)

M
The Maastricht Treaty: Creating the European Union (Finn Laursen and Sophie Vanhoonacker)
Malta and the European Union (Roderick Pace)
MERCOSUR and the European Union: Comparative Regionalism and Interregionalism (Andrés Malamud)
The Merger Treaty: Creating a Single Commission and Council of the European Communities (Finn Laursen)
Mexico and the European Union (Roberto Dominguez and Marlena Crandall)

N
National Parliaments and the European Union (Katrin Auel)
Neofunctionalism (Arne Niemann)
The Netherlands and European Integration (Mathieu Segers)
The Nice Treaty: Reforming European Union Institutions in Anticipation of Eastern Enlargements (Finn Laursen)
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (James Sperling and Mark Webber)
Norway and the European Union (John Erik Fossum)

O
The Ordinary Legislative Procedure (Maja Kluger Dionigi and Anne Rasmussen)

P
Poland and the European Union (Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski and Maciej Wilga)
Political Parties in the European Union (Karl Magnus Johansson and Tapio Raunio)
Populism and Euroskepticism in the European Union (Matthijs Rooduijn and Stijn van Kessel)
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union (Frank M. Häge)
Principal-Agent Analysis and the European Union (Tom Delreux and Johan Adriaensen)
Public Administration, Turbulence, and the European Union (Jarle Trondal)
Public Opinion in European Union Politics (Catherine E. De Vries)



R
Rational Choice Institutionalism and European Integration (Gerald Schneider and Anastasia Ershova)
Referendums in the European Union (Derek Beach)
Regional Institutions and the European Union (Arjan H. Schakel and Emanuele Massetti)
Regionalist Parties and the European Union (Emanuele Massetti and Arjan H. Schakel)
Research and Development in European Union Politics (Alberto Quadrio Curzio and Alberto Silvani)
Romania and the European Union (Natalia Cuglesan)
Russia and the European Union (Tom Casier)


S
The Schengen Area (Steve Peers)
The Schuman Plan and the Start of Supranational European Integration (Piers Ludlow)
Serbia and the European Union (Matteo Bonomi and Milica Uvalic)
The Single European Act (Desmond Dinan)
Slovakia and the European Union (Peter Loedel)
Slovenia and the European Union (Ana Bojinovic Fenko and Marjan Svetlicic)
Small States in the European Union (Diana Panke and Julia Gurol)
Social Policy and European Union Politics (Mary Daly)
Sociological Institutionalism and European Integration (Sabine Saurugger)
Solidarity and European Union Politics (Andreas Grimmel)
South Korea and the European Union (Sunghoon Park)
Spain and the European Union (Arantza Gomez Arana)
Subsidiarity as a Subject of Battle in European Union Politics (Kees van Kersbergen and Bertjan Verbeek)
Sweden and the European Union (Karl Magnus Johansson)
Switzerland and European Integration (Clive H. Church)

T
Transport Policy and European Union Policy (Cyril Alias, Bernd Kleinheyer, and Carla Fieber-Alias)
The Treaties of Rome (Kiran Klaus Patel)
The Treaty of Paris (Desmond Dinan)
Turkey and the European Union (Birol A. Yesilada)

U
Ukraine and the European Union (Giselle Bosse)
The United Kingdom and the European Union (Alasdair Blair)
The United Nations and the European Union (Carla Monteleone)
The United States and the European Union (Roberto Dominguez and Joshua Weissman LaFrance)

V
Visa Policy in the European Union (Jelena Dzankic)
Voting in European Union Politics (Monika Mühlböck)

W
The Western Balkans and the European Union (Gentian Elezi)
The Western European Union (WEU) (Maxime H. A. Larivé)
The World Trade Organization and the European Union (Jens Ladefoged Mortensen)