Authors:	Speyer, Johanna Stockmann, Nils
Title:	How a conversation between EU studies and critical-constructivist IR norm research illuminates a Union in crisis : a research note
Online publication date:	29-Sep-2023
Year of first publication:	2023
Language:	english
Abstract:	Historically, crises have been lauded for fostering European Union (EU) integration. Conversely, it has recently been predicted that the current ‘polycrisis’ will precipitate the EU's demise. However, this dichotomous perspective on crises is oversimplified. In this research note, we argue that a critical-constructivist approach to norm contestation is uniquely placed to illuminate the shades of grey populating the continuum between these two extremes. As contestation effects may occur on both normative and institutional levels, a norm contestation approach has the potential to open the black box of crises by investigating the prerequisites, actors and processes of crisis and reminding us that these stages are linked in a circular way. Therefore, we argue that a conversation between EU studies and critical-constructivist norm contestation research is crucial to advancing our understanding of the myriad effects crises have on the EU beyond the dichotomous distinction between integration and demise.
DDC:	320 Politik 320 Political science
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 02 Sozialwiss., Medien u. Sport
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-9523
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License:	CC BY
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal:	Journal of common market studies Version of Record (VoR)
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher place:	Oxford
Issue date:	2023
ISSN:	1468-5965
Publisher DOI:	10.1111/jcms.13508
Appears in collections:	DFG-491381577-H