A study of the European Union governance model by the neo-institutionalism analysis

• Main Authors: Kuan-wei Chen, 陳冠維
• Other Authors: Chu-ching Kou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24202221031575575876

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 歐洲研究所 === 90 === Abstract The European integration has begun half a century ago, and it is the most abundant achievement of all regional integration. The European Union is nowadays, the unique international organization with economical sovereign. According to the international law, the legal status of international organization that is held by the European Union is a special case worthy of study. Besides, in the issues of multi-level governance, the European Union is a obvious and concrete object of study. This study uses the approach of neo-institutionalism, the historical approach and the approach of data analysis. By analyzing the meaning and history of treaties, rules and their changing, we can explain the evolution of European Union. This study splits the history of the European integration in to four different periods. The first period lies between its beginning and the world wide financial crisis. The second period is from the world financial crisis to the stagflation. The third period goes through prosperity till the collapse of the Yalta system. The fourth period begins at the post-cold war period, and until now. This study supposes that the event above did occurred, and influences deeply in the changing of the European Union institutions. And in the different periods, we could observe changings of the European Union''s behavior through the difference of the power the different countries hold. This helps us to understand how the supranational authority changes themselves according to the limitation of institutional environment. The end of this study summarizes a skeleton of the development of the European Union, and predicts the future development.