This book considers the dynamics of institutional conflict and institutional change in international organizations, specifically focusing on the European Union, the most highly integrated international political order on the globe. Taking a constructivist approach, it examines two in-depth case studies - in the field of Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) and the EU's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) - to explain the dynamics of the processes that lead up to institutional conflicts and provide some explanation for their final outcomes.

Ludvig Norman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden.

1. Dynamics of Institutional Conflict in the European Union

2. Institutional Conflict and Change in International Political Orders

3. Explaining Institutional Change: The Role of Interpretive Process Tracing

4. Institutional Conflict in EU Criminal Law

5. Institutional Conflict in the EU's External Action

6. Explaining institutional conflict: the Rupture Mechanism

7. The Environmental Crimes Case

8. The Small Arms Case

9. Conflict Dynamics: The Discursive Lock-in Mechanism

10. Concluding Remarks