National public opionion and international negotiations. The entry into the third stage of the European Monetary Union. The intergovernmental conference 1996

Project Directors Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Franz Urban Pappi Project Staff Prof. Dr. Paul W. Thurner Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung-funded 1996 – 1998

Research question/goal:

With this project the later research group on the "Institutionalization of international negotiation systems" was started. The original narrow focus on national public opinion and its impact on international negotiations was given up in favor of the broader question how institutionalized forms of negotiating influence the possibilities of consensus building.