Leadership in the Big Bangs of European Integration

Foreword; C.Westendorp Preface; E.Suleiman Introduction; D. Beach & C. Mazzucelli The EU Presidency: France in the 2000 IGC; J.Tallberg Drawing Lessons in the Chair: Assessing the Dutch Presidency's Impact during the Maastricht and Amsterdam Conferences; C.Mazzucelli The EU Presidency: Comparing the Italian and Irish Presidencies of the 2003-04 Intergovernmental Conference; B.Crum Oiling the Wheels of Compromise: The Council Secretariat in the 1996-97 and the 2003-04 IGCs; D.Beach Leader or Bystander?: The European Commission and EU Treaty Reform; H.Kassim & D.G.Dimitrakopoulos A Formal Outsider Becomes an Effective Player: The European Parliament in the Negotiation of the Treaty of Amsterdam and the Constitutional Treaty; A.Maurer Big versus Small: Shared Leadership in the EU and Power Politics in the Convention; S.Bunse , P.Magnette & K.NicolaIdis Cooperative Hegemon, Missing Engine or Improbable Core? Explaining French-German Influence in European Treaty Reform; C.Mazzucelli , U.Guérot & A.Metz Britain and the European Union: A Laggard Leader?; A.Blair The Constitutional Treaty and Poland: A New Laggard in the EU?; K.Bobinski Is There Anyone in Charge? Leadership in EU Constitutional Negotiations; R.Dehousse & F.Deloche-Gaudez Conclusions; D. Beach & C. Mazzucelli