Constructing The Limits Of Europe

Author : Rumena Filipova
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783838216492

Get Book

Constructing the Limits of Europe by Rumena Filipova Pdf

This comparative study harks back to the revolutionary year of 1989 and asks two critical questions about the resulting reconfiguration of Europe in the aftermath of the collapse of communism: Why did Central and East European states display such divergent outcomes of their socio-political transitions? Why did three of those states—Poland, Bulgaria, and Russia—differ so starkly in terms of the pace and extent of their integration into Europe? Rumena Filipova argues that Poland’s, Bulgaria’s, and Russia’s dominating conceptions of national identity have principally shaped these countries’ foreign policy behavior after 1989. Such an explanation of these three nations’ diverging degrees of Europeanization stands in contrast to institutionalist-rationalist, interest-based accounts of democratic transition and international integration in post-communist Europe. She thereby makes a case for the need to include ideational factors into the study of International Relations and demonstrates that identities are not easily malleable and may not be as fluid as often assumed. She proposes a theoretical “middle-ground” argument that calls for “qualified post-positivism” as an integrated perspective that combines positivist and post-positivist orientations in the study of IR.

Author : Daniel Charles Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0192667637

Get Book

The Limits of Europe by Daniel Charles Thomas Pdf

This is a multi-method study of the European Union's decision-making on enlargement over seven decades, showing how membership norms shape decision-making on which states are considered eligible to join the EU and which are not.

Author : Daniel C. Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199206711

Get Book

The Limits of Europe by Daniel C. Thomas Pdf

Where does Europe begin and end? How have the European Union and its precursors decided which countries are eligible to join the community and which are not? Few issues are more hotly debated, more important for the course of European integration, or more consequential for individuals in and around the EU. As this book demonstrates, the limits of Europe are determined by the values shared at particular moments in time by the leaders of the community's member states, regardless of their particular policy preferences. These membership norms shape the community's decisions on enlargement by empowering certain political forces and disempowering others. And contrary to conventional wisdom, these norms have changed considerably over time. The Limits of Europe: Membership Norms and the Contestation of Regional Integration uses a novel combination of normative genealogy, statistical analysis and detailed tracing of EU decision-making on Greece, Spain, Turkey and Ukraine to demonstrate that changing membership norms have had a stronger impact on the community's enlargement since the 1950s than treaty rules, the location of the states seeking membership, or even the commercial or security interests of member states.

Author : J. DeBardeleben,A. Hurrelmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230306370

Get Book

Transnational Europe by J. DeBardeleben,A. Hurrelmann Pdf

Transnational connections are a defining feature of contemporary Europe. They include cross-border economic and cultural exchange, migration, and political activism. This volume probes their political and social significance and makes a case for incorporating transnationalism more systematically into the research agenda of European Studies.

Author : Kimmo Katajala,Maria Lähteenmäki
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643902573

Get Book

Imagined, Negotiated, Remembered by Kimmo Katajala,Maria Lähteenmäki Pdf

This collection of writings explores European borders from the 15th century to the present. The territorial scope ranges from the Arctic Ocean and Scandinavia to Central Europe. In these papers, borders are understood not only as separating lines in the terrain, but also as socially constructed divisions in people's choices, speeches, actions, and memories. Borders are not only drawn: they are imagined, negotiated, and remembered. (Series: Studies on Middle and Eastern Europe / Mittel- und Ostmitteleuropastudien - Vol. 11)

Author : Paul Graham Taylor
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0231057156

Get Book

The Limits of European Integration by Paul Graham Taylor Pdf

Home to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhattan in pursuit of the American dream. Once hailed as a "wonder borough" of beautiful homes, parks, and universities, the Bronx became--during the 1960s and 1970s--a national symbol of urban deterioration. Thriving neighborhoods that had long been home to generations of families dissolved under waves of arson, crime, and housing abandonment, turning blocks of apartment buildings into gutted, graffiti-covered shells and empty, trash-filled lots. In this revealing history of the Bronx, Evelyn Gonzalez describes how the once-infamous New York City borough underwent one of the most successful and inspiring community revivals in American history. From its earliest beginnings as a loose cluster of commuter villages to its current status as a densely populated home for New York's growing and increasingly more diverse African American and Hispanic populations, this book shows how the Bronx interacted with and was affected by the rest of New York City as it grew from a small colony on the tip of Manhattan into a sprawling metropolis. This is the story of the clattering of elevated subways and the cacophony of crowded neighborhoods, the heady optimism of industrial progress and the despair of economic recession, and the vibrancy of ethnic cultures and the resilience of local grassroots coalitions crucial to the borough's rejuvenation. In recounting the varied and extreme transformations this remarkable community has undergone, Evelyn Gonzalez argues that it was not racial discrimination, rampant crime, postwar liberalism, or big government that was to blame for the urban crisis that assailed the Bronx during the late 1960s. Rather, the decline was inextricably connected to the same kinds of social initiatives, economic transactions, political decisions, and simple human choices that had once been central to the development and vitality of the borough. Although the history of the Bronx is unquestionably a success story, crime, poverty, and substandard housing still afflict the community today. Yet the process of building and rebuilding carries on, and the revitalization of neighborhoods and a resurgence of economic growth continue to offer hope for the future.

Author : Michael A. Sutton,Michael Sutton
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 184545393X

Get Book

France and the Construction of Europe, 1944-2007 by Michael A. Sutton,Michael Sutton Pdf

This comprehensive history shows how France coupled the pursuit of power and the furtherance of European integration over a 60 year period, from the close of the Second World War to the hesitation caused by the French electorate's referendum rejection of the European Union's constitutional treaty in 2005.

Author : Erik Oddvar Eriksen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134229499

Get Book

Making The European Polity by Erik Oddvar Eriksen Pdf

Today’s Europe is marked by an amazing pace of integration. The European Union now consists of twenty five member states, however there is confusion and disagreement about its future design. Making The European Polity investigates how the European Union should develop and organize itself and offers a reflexive approach to integration based on the theory of communicative action. It conceives of the EU as a law based supranational polity lacking the identity of a people as well as the coercive means of a state and argues that it is a polity with an organized capacity to act, but no sole apex of authority. Making an important contribution to the theoretical discussions on the EU, these contributors explore a range of issues including legitimacy, post-national democracy and integration and provide in-depth analyses of social and tax policy, foreign policy, identity formation, the reform process and the constitutional effects of enlargement. This book will appeal to all political scientists and particularly to students and researchers of European Politics.

Author : G. Delanty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230379657

Get Book

Inventing Europe by G. Delanty Pdf

A critical analysis of the idea of Europe and the limits and possibilities of a European identity in the broader perspective of history. This book argues that the crucial issue is the articulation of a new identity that is based on post-national citizenship rather than ambivalent notions of unity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6084607101

Get Book

Constructing Europe as a global power by Anonim Pdf

Author : S. Martin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401583688

Get Book

The Construction of Europe by S. Martin Pdf

Stephen Martin* The fourteen essays that constitute this work provide a coherent review of the past and present of the European Community, and consider some of its possible futures. Werner Abelshauser and Richard Griffiths offer separate perspectives on the precursors of the European Community. Abelshauser argues that comparison of the fates of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Defense Community demonstrate the dominance of political over economic considerations in the integration process. Griffiths considers the stillborn European Political Community, many of the proposed features of which, somewhat transformed, were embodied in the Treaty of Rome. Both suggest that as a practical matter a coming together of French and German interests has been a precondition for advances in European integration. Stephen Martin and Andrew Evans discuss the development of the Com munity's Structural Funds, first envisaged as tools to smooth the transition from a collection of regional economies to a continent-wide single market, now increasingly seen as devices to guide adjustment to long-term struc tural problems. Stuart Holland emphasizes the role of the Structural Funds as one element in a broad range of strategies to ensure social and economic cohesion as the Maastrict Treaty ushers the European Union into the next stage of its development.

Author : Sonja Puntscher Riekmann,Wolfgang Wessels
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783531900957

Get Book

The Making of a European Constitution by Sonja Puntscher Riekmann,Wolfgang Wessels Pdf

The aim of this publication is an analysis of the process of European constitutionalisation and its entanglement with relevant national discourses. Thus, national constitutional traditions in Austria, France, Germany and the United Kingdom are evaluated with regard to the positions of the respective national representatives in the European Convention. Interviews with Members of National Parliaments and of the European Parliament as well as a content analysis of the debate on the future of Europe in print media form the empirical basis of this study.

Author : Bo Stråth
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0820446564

Get Book

Europe and the Other and Europe as the Other by Bo Stråth Pdf

Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt/M., New York, Oxford, Wien. This book contributes to the debate on what Europe is by demonstrating the complexities and contradictions inherent in the concept. They are seen most clearly when Europe is viewed from a long historical perspective. During the closing decades of the twentieth century Europe emerged as one of the main points of reference in both the cultural and the political constructs of the global community. An obsession with the concept of European identity is identifiable. European identity is usually seen in relation to national identity, either in an uneasy opposition to it, that is, as an alternative to the nation, or in a situation in which it overlaps with and complements the nation. The structure of national identify is projected onto European identity, and this projection has an ideological underpinning, for no projection is ever non-interested or non-ideological. This process of identity construction provokes searching questions which the book aims to address. At the same time the book explores the opportunities offered by the concept of Europe to see how it may be used in the construction of the future. The approach is one of both deconstruction and reconstruction. The issue of Europe is closely related in the book to more general issues relating to the cultural construction of community. The book should therefore be seen as the companion of Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community, which also is published by PIE-Peter Lang in the series Multiple Europes.

Author : Beate Sissenich
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 0739112236

Get Book

Building States Without Society by Beate Sissenich Pdf

Focusing on the 2004 enlargement of the European Union, Building States without Society highlights the real limits of cross-national rule transfer even when power is uneven between rule-makers and rule-takers. Tracing the role of labor and other non-state actors in transferring rules, Beate Sissenich shows the persistent relevance of national politics, specifically state capacity and interest organizations. Social network analysis demonstrates that even in a highly integrated Europe, state borders continue to structure communications.

Author : Pernille Rieker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137561695

Get Book

External Governance as Security Community Building by Pernille Rieker Pdf

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was initially intended to create ‘a ring of friends surrounding the Union, from Morocco to Russia and the Black Sea’ (Prodi, 2002). Today, however, the ever-worsening security situation in the region clearly shows that the aim has not been achieved. With wars in Ukraine, Syria and Libya, the Union’s neighbourhood can therefore better be described as ‘a ring of fire’. Does this means that the policy has failed and that an alternative policy towards the EU’s neighbours is needed? Or should these developments be seen as temporary setbacks caused by external factors beyond EU control? By comparing the EU’s approach to its eastern and southern neighbours, this volume seeks to answer such overarching questions. The authors find that the EU still has a potential role to play in providing regional security, but that this role also risks being increasingly undermined if it does not increasingly take into account the broader geostrategic realities in both regions.