CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Jobse, Johanna Pieternella |
|---|---|
| Title | The Benelux Union and the Visegrad Group Inside the European Union: Dealing with Environment and Climate Change |
| Summary | In this thesis an answer has been given to the main research question: Why do the Benelux Union and the Visegrad Group persist with the item of environmental policy and climate change even though the EU is quite active in this policy field? After contextualizing the topic and explaining what the Benelux Union and Visegrad Group do concerning the environment and climate change, a theoretical framework was created. This framework, consisting of the logic of consequences and the logic of appropriateness, led to six concrete possible reasons why the organizations made the decision to engage with the topics of environment and climate change: lobbying vehicle, wish to pursue certain policies, increase in the salience of the issue, preservation of the organization, international identity and value of the organization. Based on content analyses and interviews it was made clear that not all these six reasons were of the same importance. The most important reasons why both organizations decided to get involved with environment and climate change is because they see it as a very important topic and realize that by forming a power block their lobby position is much stronger than when they try to engage in the topic individually. All four reasons within the logic of consequences are relevant, although not all of them to the same extent and differing per organization. Within the logic of appropriateness only the reason of international identity was verified. |
| Supervisor | Merlingen, Michael |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/jobse_johanna.pdf |
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