JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies

Published in association with UACES, the University Association for Contemporary European Studies

Edited by:
Jim Rollo and William Paterson
Managing Editors: Charles Lees and Daniel Wincott

ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2006: 83/175 (Economics); 21/50 (International Relations); 30/85 (Political Science)
Impact Factor: 0.718

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JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies is the leading journal in the field, publishing high quality, and accessible articles on the latest European Integration issues. For 40 years it has been the forum for the development and evaluation of theoretical and empirical issues in the politics and economics of European integration, focusing principally on developments within the EU. JCMS is committed to deepening the theoretical understanding of European integration and aims to achieve a disciplinary balance between political science, economics and international relations, including the various sub disciplines such as international political economy. Each year a special book issue is devoted to a comprehensive review of the activities of the European Union in the previous year.

TopNews and Announcements

JCMS Scholarship
The newly launched JCMS scholarship is designed to provide mobility to existing post-doctoral scholars or postgraduate students from India or China in order that they can undertake research in an EU member state or candidate state. For more information and to enter, please visit http://www.uaces.org/JCMSscholarships.htm.

JCMS Special Edition Open Competition
The winners of the 2007 and 2008 Open Competitions for the Guest Editorship of JCMS are as follows:
- For the November 2007 issue, Andreas Duer and Hubert Zimmerman's special issue on "The EU in International Trade Negotiations".
- For the January 2008 issue, Geoffrey Edwards and Christoph Meyer on "Europe's Response to International Terrorism: the Contested Frontier of Integration".

JCMS article featured in the Sunday Times
What Makes a Good EU Presidency? by Lucia Quaglia and Edward Moxon-Browne (Volume 44, Issue 2) 
To read the full article online, please click here

TopHighlights

When and Why the EU Council of Ministers Votes Explicitly
Fiona Hayes-Renshaw, Wim Van Aken and Helen Wallace

The authors' data set on explicitly contested voting in the Council is available at www.councildata.cergu.gu.se as a resource for other researchers working on the subject and to provide more detailed background to the summary information in the volume. This data includes both statistics in a form that hopefully others can manipulate and textual information on the subject matters and kinds of decisions at issue.  Readers should note that the website contains corrected information that marginally amends Table 3 in the article version.  In addition the website cited above contains data from several other studies of Council decision-making.  Daniel Naurin of the University of Gothenburg has done a heroic job in developing this website.

Renationalizing or Regrouping? EU Foreign Policy Since 11 September 2001
Christopher Hill

A Single EU Seat in the IMF?
Lorenzo Bini Smaghi

Europe and the Future of Economic Governance
Pascal Lamy

Exchange Rates and Cohesion: Historical Perspectives and Political-Economy Considerations
Barry Eichengreen, David Leblang

Eastern European Attitudes to Integration with Western Europe
Anetta Caplanova, Marta Orviska, John Hudson

Accounting, Auditing and Corporate Governance of European Listed Companies: EU Policy Developments Before and After Enron
Ian P. Dewing, Peter O. Russell

New Governance in the European Union: A Theoretical Perspective
Burkard Eberlein, Dieter Kerwer

E Pluribus Unum? Creative Disagreement About Legitimacy in the EU
Christopher Lord, Paul Magnette

The Logic of Access to the European Parliament: Business Lobbying in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs
Pieter Bouwen

The JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2006
Edited by Ulrich Sedelmeier & Alasdair R. Young

The Annual Review, produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies, covers the key developments in the European Union, its member states, and acceding and/or applicant countries in 2006/2007. It contains key analytical articles on political, economic and legal issues in the EU by leading experts, together with a keynote article.

280 pages   978-1-4051-5980-7   September 2007  £17.99

Integration in an Expanding European Union 
Reassessing the Fundamentals
Edited By: JOSEPH H H WEILER, IAIN BEGG and JOHN PETERSON

The European Union is on the brink of fundamental change. Just as the EU is about to enlarge radically, the Convention on the Future of Europe may transform it into a political entity governed by a constitution. This timely volume brings together a world-class group of scholars and practitioners to examine the fundamentals of integration in an expanding EU.

436 pages  1-4051-1232-8  March 2003  £18.99

TopEndorsements

"The JCMS is an extremely important publication."
Pascal Lamy, European Union Trade Commissioner

"Required Reading for the euro-interested, be they europhile or euro-sceptic."
Willem Buiter, Chief Economist at the EBRD and former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England