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ABSTRACT
The Eurozone and migration crises have reconfigured sovereignty in the European Union. The Eurozone has moved from an outright prohibition to a conditional acceptance of bailouts, and the Schengen regime has extended into the long sacrosanct national turf of border control. Building on recent scholarship on sovereignty practices, we argue that EU leaders worked out crisis responses that shifted broad understandings of how sovereignty was practiced. Our main claim is that politicization, in situations of crisis, can accelerate the reconfiguration of fragile sovereignty practices. After a crisis reveals the vulnerability of existing sovereignty practices, EU leaders search for integrationist remedies, incorporate sovereignty concerns as key reform ingredients, and coalesce to marginalize sovereignty claims that threaten integration. This logic calls into question the widespread view that politicization necessarily carries dismal prospects for integration.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors. Dr. Luhman contributed to this article in her personal capacity; the views expressed are her own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Forum.
Notes on contributors
Nicolas Jabko is Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.
Meghan Luhman is Program Officer at the International Forum for Democratic Studies.
Notes
1 Author interviews, Paris, 20 December and 22 December 2010.
4 Author interview, French president’s office, 3 November 2010.