Examining the role of the Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) in the
development of the European Union (EU) and the evolution of the EU
treaties, this book focuses on the negotiations of what are termed
the eight constitutional IGCs. These eight include the negotiations
of the 1950s and 1960s on: 1) the European Coal and Steel
Community, 2) the European Defence and Political Community, 3) the
European Economic Community and European Atomic Energy Community,
and 4) the Fouchet Plan. The book also examines the more recent
constitutional IGCs on: 1) the Single European Act, 2) the
Maastricht Treaty, 3) the Amsterdam Treaty, and 4) the Nice Treaty.
This book challenges the neofunctionalist and liberal
intergovernmentalist perspectives that have been used in the past
to explain the process of IGCs. The author presents an alternative
perspective in the form of an incremental model to explain the
nature of negotiations at all eight constitutional IGCs. It is also
argued that the increasing frequency of IGC negotiations signifies
a gradual institutionalisation of the process to the point where
the constitutional IGC is becoming a regular feature on the EU's
political landscape. Governments are locked into a process of
constitutional IGCs that leaves the primary legal document of the
EU in a state of perpetual reform. In turn, it is argued that the
incrementalism that defines the IGC negotiations shapes the entire
process of European integration and the general nature of the
European Union.
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