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Liberal Intergovernmentalism takes the deliberative turn: the formation of member state preferences over ‘European Strategic Autonomy
Séminaire de l'axe Europe with Salih Işık Bora
Salih Işık Bora is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) of the Brussels School of Governance (BSoG-VUB), currently working in the ERC project Sino-American Competition and European Strategic Autonomy, led by Professor Luis Simón.
Salih obtained his PhD in political science (international relations) from Sciences Po Paris in December 2023. His research interests are at the intersection of international politics and political economy, with original findings in topics such as the geopoliticization of EU competition policy. His PhD dissertation titled 'Escape Forward: French state elites, EU politics and the discursive practice of European sovereignty' was shortlisted for the best thesis prize of the University Association in Contemporary European Studies (UACES).
Salih's work featured in journals such as Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration, French Politics, European Foreign Affairs Review, and West European Politics.
Abstract
In this paper, I use congruence analysis to test Liberal Intergovernmentalism (LI) against New Intergovernmentalism (NI) regarding the interplay between EU level deliberation 'European strategic autonomy' and the formation of member state preferences in the areas of defence industrial policy and state aid control policy.
I find that 1)EU level elite discourse on strategic autonomy is a national discourse uploaded from French politics, 2)it spread in EU politics mainly because the UK left, and Germany's preferences towards economic interventionism changed, 3)the proliferation of the concept did not have any impact on the preferences of governments, nobody got persuaded. From this, I deduce that EU level deliberation takes place in a 'thin' lifeworld, and generally follows a logic of bargaining with little room left for reasoned discourse. Hence, LI can be adapted to the deliberative turn of EU studies. The full paper should be ready very soon and definitely a few weeks before the ULB presentation.
12h00 - 13h00
Institut d'études européennes - ULB
Salle KANT
39, Avenue F.D Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles
