The Eu S Transformative Power

Author : H. Grabbe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230510302

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The EU’s Transformative Power by H. Grabbe Pdf

Between 1989 and 2004, the EU's conditionality for membership transformed Central and East Europe. The EU had enormous potential power over the whole range of domestic politics in the candidate countries. However, the EU was able to use that power at a few key points in the process leading to their accession. The EU's long-term influence worked primarily through soft power and through voluntary rather than coercive means. During the membership preparations, the EU built many different routes of influence into the candidate countries' domestic policy-making through 'Europeanization'. The Central and East Europeans voluntarily took on the Union's norms and methods, guided by the European Commission, in a massive transfer of policies and institutions. However, the EU missed important opportunities to effect change as well. The EU's Transformative Power explores in detail how the EU used its influence to control the movement of people across Europe, through both coercive use of conditionality and voluntary methods of Europeanization.

Author : Heather Grabbe
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1403949034

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The EU's Transformative Power by Heather Grabbe Pdf

In 2004, the European Union undertook an unprecedented addition of ten new countries. This will fundamentally change the EU, and the Union has already had a dramatic impact on the development of the new member states. The EU's Transformative Power presents a detailed analysis of how the EU has shaped countries of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism.

Author : Costa, Bruno Ferreira
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781799890577

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Challenges and Barriers to the European Union Expansion to the Balkan Region by Costa, Bruno Ferreira Pdf

Despite all efforts to create a political union capable of improving European citizens’ quality of life, there are several barriers to the European Union’s (EU) expansion to the Balkan Region. The EU enlargement and expansion to the Balkan Region is one of the Union’s greatest challenges and political objectives in recent years. In the turmoil of economic, social, and sanitarian crises, where is the space to debate the enlargement of the EU? Challenges and Barriers to the European Union Expansion to the Balkan Region presents the EU’s structure, the process of enlargement, and the challenges related to the Balkan region. This book addresses critical issues and challenges in the EU and the emerging trends for the EU’s future. Covering topics such as enlargement policy, integration, NATO, and political challenges, this book is a valuable resource for post-grad students of political science and international affairs, faculty of higher education, researchers, academicians, politicians, world leaders, and policymakers.

Author : Ryder, Andrew,Taba, Marius
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447357506

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Romani Communities and Transformative Change by Ryder, Andrew,Taba, Marius Pdf

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND. Drawing on Roma community voices and expert research, this book provides a powerful tool to challenge conventional discourses and analyses on Romani identity, poverty and exclusion. Through the transformative vehicle of a ‘Social Europe’, this edited collection presents new concepts and strategies for framing social justice for Romani communities across Europe. The vast majority of Roma experience high levels of exclusion from the labour market and from social networks in society. This book maps out how the implementation of a new ‘Social Europe’ can offer innovative solutions to these intransigent dilemmas. This insightful and accessible text is vital reading for the policymaker, practitioner, academic and activist.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 915549403X

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Transformative Power Challenged by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134047499

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The Transformative Power of Performance by Erika Fischer-Lichte Pdf

In this book, Erika Fischer-Lichte traces the emergence of performance as 'an art event' in its own right. In setting performance art on an equal footing with the traditional art object, she heralds a new aesthetics. The peculiar mode of experience that a performance provokes – blurring distinctions between artist and audience, body and mind, art and life – is here framed as the breeding ground for a new way of understanding performing arts, and through them even wider social and cultural processes. With an introduction by Marvin Carlson, this translation of the original Ästhetik des Performativen addresses key issues in performance art, experimental theatre and cultural performances to lay the ground for a new appreciation of the artistic event.

Author : Helen Wallace,Nikos Koutsiaras,George Pagoulatos
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192895820

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Europe's Transformations by Helen Wallace,Nikos Koutsiaras,George Pagoulatos Pdf

Europe's transformations is the unifying theme for this collective work that brings together leading academics and policy makers from across Europe and beyond. When the geopolitical tectonic plates are shifting, the sustainability of the Western economic model is under serious challenge and internal divisions in Europe are deep, we aim at looking at the major issues in a 'big picture' perspective. We draw lessons from the way Europe has responded or not to changes both within and without in multiple crises in recent years, try to understand what is at stake and consider alternative policy proposals. All the contributors have a long and widely recognized knowledge and experience of a wide range of issues of European integration and Europe's role in the world. They cross academic and professional boundaries and bring different perspectives as top analysts and policy makers, including two former prime ministers and a former US ambassador to the EU. They come together as friends, colleagues, and former students of Loukas Tsoukalis celebrating his scholarship and overall contribution to the European public sphere. The volume is divided into three main parts. The first deals with issues of democracy and welfare. The second part deals with major changes in the European balance of power and the balance between institutions. The third part examines changes in the global system and Europe's present and potential role in it.

Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735238039

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War: How Conflict Shaped Us by Margaret MacMillan Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Thoughtful and brilliant insights into the very nature of war--from the ancient Greeks to modern times--from world-renowned historian Margaret MacMillan. War--its imprint in our lives and our memories--is all around us, from the metaphors we use to the names on our maps. As books, movies, and television series show, we are drawn to the history and depiction of war. Yet we nevertheless like to think of war as an aberration, as the breakdown of the normal state of peace. This is comforting but wrong. War is woven into the fabric of human civilization. In this sweeping new book, international bestselling author and historian Margaret MacMillan analyzes the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. It explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them, including the ways in which women have been both participants in and the objects of war. MacMillan's new book contains many revelations, such as war has often been good for science and innovation and in the 20th century it did much for the position of women in many societies. But throughout, it forces the reader to reflect on the ways in which war is so intertwined with society, and the myriad reasons we fight.

Author : Arolda Elbasani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136734137

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European Integration and Transformation in the Western Balkans by Arolda Elbasani Pdf

The book investigates the scope and limitations of the transformative power of EU enlargement in the Western Balkans. The extension of EU enlargement policy to the region has generated high expectations that enlargement will regulate democratic institution-building and foster reform, much as it did in Central and Eastern Europe. However, there is very little research on whether and how unfavourable domestic conditions might mitigate the transformative power of the EU. This volume investigates the role of domestic factors, identifying ‘stateness’ as the missing link between the assumed transformative power of the EU and the actual capacity to adopt EU rules across the region. Including chapters on Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, leading scholars in the field offer up-to-date comparative analysis of key areas of institutional and policy reform; including state bureaucracy, rule of law, electoral management, environmental governance, cooperation with the International Court of Justice, economic liberalization and foreign policy. Looking to the future and the implications for policy change, European Integration and Transformation in the Western Balkans provides a new theoretical and empirical focus on this little understood area. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of EU politics, comparative democratisation, post-communist transitions and Balkan area studies.

Author : A. Holzscheiter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230281646

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Children's Rights in International Politics by A. Holzscheiter Pdf

Provides insights into a lively field of international human rights politics – the protection of children and their rights – by looking at the negotiations leading to the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Author : Thomas Diez,Mathias Albert,Stephan Stetter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139470759

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The European Union and Border Conflicts by Thomas Diez,Mathias Albert,Stephan Stetter Pdf

It is generally assumed that regional integration leads to stability and peace. This book is a systematic study of the impact of European integration on the transformation of border conflicts. It provides a theoretical framework centred on four 'pathways' of impact and applies them to five cases of border conflicts: Cyprus, Ireland, Greece/Turkey, Israel/Palestine and various conflicts on Russia's border with the EU. The contributors suggest that integration and association provide the EU with potentially powerful means to influence border conflicts, but that the EU must constantly re-adjust its policies depending on the dynamics of each conflict. Their findings reveal the conditions upon which the impact of integration rests and challenge the widespread notion that integration is necessarily good for peace. This book will appeal to scholars and students of international relations, European politics, and security studies studying European integration and conflict analysis.

Author : Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski,Monika Sus
Publisher : Nomos Verlag
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783845261317

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The Transformative Power of Europe by Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski,Monika Sus Pdf

Das Buch behandelt die Einwirkung der EU auf den polnischen Staat seit dem polnischen EU-Beitritt. Autoren aus Rechts- und Politikwissenschaften analysieren EU-induzierte Transformationsprozesse, die im Rechtssystem Polens, dem Parteiensystem sowie mehreren Politikfeldern stattfanden. Untersucht werden unter anderem Änderungsprozesse in der polnischen Gerichtsbarkeit, der Interessenvertretung und in den Parteien sowie in mehreren Politikfeldern wie z.B. der Antiterrorpolitik, Klimapolitik, Außenpolitik und Gleichstellungspolitik. Mit Beiträgen von: Ireneusz P. Karolewski, Monika Sus, Robert Grzeszczak, Stanislaw Konopacki, Jolanta Maj, Anna Bachmann, Anna Paczesnika, Agnieszka K. Cianciara, Ewa Wójtowicz, Andzej Ceglarz, Andrzej Ancygier.

Author : Michal Bobek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782259909

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Central European Judges Under the European Influence by Michal Bobek Pdf

The onset of the 2004 EU enlargement witnessed a number of predictions being made about the approaches, capacity and ability of Central European judges who were soon to join the Union. Optimistic voices, foreshadowing the deep transformative power that Europe was bound to exercise with respect to the judicial mentality and practice in the new Member States, were intertwined with gloomy pictures of post-Communist limited formalism and mechanical jurisprudence that could not be reformed, which were likely to undermine the very foundations of mutual trust and recognition the judicial system of the Union is built upon. Ten years later, this volume revisits these predictions and critically assesses the evolution of Central European judicial mentality, institutions and constitutionality under the influence of the EU membership. Comparatively evaluating the situation in a number of Central European Member States in their socio-legal contexts, notably Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania, the volume offers unique insights into the process of (non) Europeanisation of national legal systems and cultures.

Author : Alejandro Jodorowsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594779565

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Psychomagic by Alejandro Jodorowsky Pdf

A healing path using the power of dreams, theater, poetry, and shamanism • Shows how psychological realizations can cause true transformation when manifested by concrete poetic acts • Includes many examples of the surreal but successful actions Jodorowsky has prescribed to those seeking his help While living in Mexico, Alejandro Jodorowsky became familiar with the colorful and effective cures provided by folk healers. He realized that it is easier for the unconscious to understand the language of dreams than that of rationality. Illness can even be seen as a physical dream that reveals unresolved emotional and psychological problems. Psychomagic presents the shamanic and genealogical principles Jodorowsky discovered to create a healing therapy that could use the powers of dreams, art, and theater to empower individuals to heal wounds that in some cases had traveled through generations. The concrete and often surreal poetic actions Jodorowsky employs are part of an elaborate strategy intended to break apart the dysfunctional persona with whom the patient identifies in order to connect with a deeper self. That is when true transformation can manifest. For a young man who complained that he lived only in his head and was unable to grab hold of reality and advance toward the financial autonomy he desired, Jodorowsky gave the prescription to paste two gold coins to the soles of his shoes so that all day he would be walking on gold. A judge whose vanity was ruling his every move was given the task of dressing like a tramp and begging outside one of the fashionable restaurants he loved to frequent while pulling glass doll eyes out of his pockets. The lesson for him was that if a tramp can fill his pockets with eyeballs, then they must be of no value, and thus the eyes of others should have no bearing on who you are and what you do. Taking his patients directly at their words, Jodorowsky takes the same elements associated with a negative emotional charge and recasts them in an action that will make them positive and enable them to pay the psychological debts hindering their lives.

Author : Christian Hagemann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030020927

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EU Funds in the New Member States by Christian Hagemann Pdf

This book examines new member states’ problems with the absorption of EU funds. Since accession, many new member states from Central and Eastern Europe struggle to access their billions of development funds from Brussels. While existing research mostly emphasizes the role of states’ administrative capacities to account for absorption problems, this study adds the so far neglected role of politics as party politicization to the equation. The argument is tested using a combination of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) with two detailed process tracing case studies. This book will appeal to scholars interested in EU cohesion policy, post-accession compliance, and post-communist politics.