2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Crisis of Opportunity? European Integration and party politics at the national and EU-level in the wake of Brexit
| Project/Area Number |
17K03544
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Politics
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| Research Institution | Oita University |
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Principal Investigator |
Day Stephen 大分大学, 経済学部, 教授 (60404357)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | European integration / Europarties / EPGs / Euroscepticism / Brexit / Political integration / Europe of Nation States / Ever Closer Union |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The central finding of the project is that while the political system of the EU has muddled through numerous crises in the past decade, including Brexit, it continues to remain underdeveloped. Despite the backing of the pro-EU forces, opportunities to enhance the EU’s political development have continued to face obstacles. One example that I elucidated was the way in which measures heralded as bolstering the Europarties, alongside a desire to give the 2024 European elections more of a European focus have failed to materialize due to 'indifference' from many national political parties/member states. As a result of these lost opportunities, the legitimacy of on-going EU integration processes remains increasingly vulnerable to increasingly vocal Eurosceptic forces whose goal is to steer the EU towards a ‘Europe of Nation States’. The project also demonstrated, via a case-study of Brexit, how Eurosceptic forces could successfully deploy an anti-EU vision of the future.
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| Free Research Field |
EU Studies and Comparative Politics
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
I introduced two key ideas to the literature in the shape of 'transnational practice' and 'dilemma of indifference'. I was interviewed by Oita Godo Shimbun (22/2/1) and appeared in the business group newsletter EUROITA 2021.5. I have clarified European politics to students/members of the public.
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