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European Security: The End of Architecture and the New NATO (Paul Cornish) Özetleyen Rıza GÜLER

by Rıza Güler

Bu makale; soğuk savaş dönemi sonrasında Avrupa Güvenliği kapsamında tartışma ve müzakerelerin odağında bulunan NATO,... more Bu makale; soğuk savaş dönemi sonrasında Avrupa Güvenliği kapsamında tartışma ve müzakerelerin odağında bulunan NATO, AB ve BAB kuruluşlarının işlevlerini ve bunlar arasında değişen ilişkileri incelemektedir.

The European Citizen's Initiative: A New Era for Democratic Politics in the EU

by Emmanuel Sigalas

Border Cities in the Baltic Sea

by Agatino Rizzo

In 2007/2008, the Border Cities Kolleg, facilitated by the Germany-based Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, brought together... more In 2007/2008, the Border Cities Kolleg, facilitated by the Germany-based Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, brought together an international group of young planners, architects, artists and urbanists to explore the complex dynamics of trans-national urbanism in the Baltic Sea Region. Within this framework our group came together to consider the cities of Helsinki and Tallinn as a case of EU spatial policy implementation. Region makers such as EUREGIO view the two cities as part of an emerging European Region, one that opens an opportunity to enhance economic and administrative capacities, as well as to expand transportation and distribution networks. These in turn form or enhance a number of interweaving bonds. The focus of our group research was to see how far this notion of region building has progressed, compared with past and present common identity building processes.

The Economic Impact of the EU-Korea FTA on the Czech Republic (in Czech)

by Alice Rezkova

Co-authored with Antonín Koukolík, Šárka Baladová and Vladimír Beroun

Language planning in the European Union: A micro-level perspective

by Felicia Kreiselmaier

Egypt's Uprising One Year On

by Andrea Teti

European Centre for International Affairs, ECIA Briefing, February 10, 2011

A year after the uprising, the struggle for power between Egypt’s military and the Muslim Brotherhood, unexpected... more A year after the uprising, the struggle for power between Egypt’s military and the Muslim Brotherhood, unexpected electoral gains of radical Salafis, and increasing support for the status quo from some GCC countries make a smooth transition to democracy unlikely. European governments find themselves caught between outdated democracy assistance strategies and the increasing influence of Gulf funding. The current re-evaluation of democratization assistance must focus on key issues and groups if they hope to be successful.

EG-Recht contra Arbeitsrecht? Gedanken zum Verhältnis von Negativ-und Positivintegration im Europäischen Arbeitsrecht

by Dagmar Schiek

published in Arbeit und Rechtt, Festschrift fuer Wolfgang Daeubler (Martin Wolmerath et al eds), 1995

Post-Crisis Perspectives in Europe on State Intervention in the Economy: So Long to “United in Diversity”?

by Riccardo de Caria

in M. Rogoff (Ed.), The Financial Crisis of 2008: French and American Responses, pp. 325-343 (2011)

This article explores the current debate among European economists and legal thinkers about the crisis, its causes,... more This article explores the current debate among European economists and legal thinkers about the crisis, its causes, and its possible remedies. In particular, the article focuses on two French books, taken as paradigmatic examples of two opposite views on the crisis, one that blames it on a lack of government intervention in the economy, and the one that blames it on too much state interference in the market. The books are respectively La crise, et après? by Jacques Attali and Revenir au capitalisme. Pour éviter les crises by Pascal Salin. In the final part, the article considers what the analysis of these works tells us about the European understanding of the crisis, and more broadly if the famous European Union motto of “united in diversity” corresponds to what is actually the state of current thinking among European writers, governments, and peoples.

The New Modes of EU Governance: Combining Rationalism and Constructivism in Explaining Voluntarist Policy Coordination in the EU

by Thomas Paster

An Analysis on the Alignment Process of Turkey to the EU's FTAs under the Customs Union and Current Challenges

by Özgür ÇALIŞKAN

(2009), Hacettepe Üniversitesi İİBF Dergisi, 27(1), ss.1-24

Tony Blair e la crisi irachena del 2003: le ragioni di una guerra; i rapporti con gli Stati Uniti e l'Unione Europea

by Cecilia Emma Sottilotta

Transnational Standards of Social Protection: Contrasting European and International Governance

by Poul F. Kjaer

Christian Joerges and Poul F. Kjaer (eds.).
University of Oslo Centre for European Studies Report No. 5/08
Reconstituting Democracy in Europe Report No. 4, 2008

The present report contains the proceedings of the inter-disciplinary workshop ‘Transnational Standards of Social... more The present report contains the proceedings of the inter-disciplinary workshop ‘Transnational Standards of Social Protection: Contrasting European and International Governance’, which was jointly organised by the EU funded project Reconstituting Democracy in Europe (RECON) and the Collaborative Research Center 'Transformations of the State' at the University of Bremen.

The report contains 10 contributions concerned with different aspects of social regulation within the EU as well as within global structures such as the WTO.

Embeddedness through Networks-A Critical Appraisal of the Network Concept in the Oeuvre of Karl-Heinz Ladeur

by Poul F. Kjaer

German Law Journal, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 483-499, April 2009

The concept of “network” has become the most central concept within the work of Karl‐Heinz Ladeur (KHL). It is an... more The concept of “network” has become the most central concept within the work of Karl‐Heinz Ladeur (KHL). It is an omnibus concept which he uses to extrapolate insights at all levels: It is used to provide a general framework at the level of Gesellschaftstheorie (social theory) in the sense that it provides insights into the general structure of society and thereby into the context within which legal processes unfold. At the level of organizational theory it provides a basis for understanding the transformation of organizational structures as it unfolds through the breakdown of hierarchy and the boundaries between the private and the public, just as the network concept plays an important role in its attempt to formulate a legal theory which is adequate for a society which, according to KHL, has become postmodern.
This article seeks to critically examine the function and “added value” of KHL’s network concept in relation to the European integration and constitutionalization process. It is argued that the concept provides a very useful overall framework, but that its usefulness might be enhanced when combined with more concrete studies of the actual function of networks in the EU context, just as the network concept should be more directly combined with an attempt to develop a conceptual framework for the juridification of networks.

Postcolonial Europe, or Understanding Europe in Times of the Postcolonial

by Gurminder K Bhambra

EU’s Current and Possible Role in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict Resolution Process

by Anna Poghosyan

This paper examines the European Union’s (EU) contribution to conflict resolution in the South Caucasus. We will... more
This paper examines the European Union’s (EU) contribution to conflict resolution in the South Caucasus. We will examine the EU’s performance in two key areas of conflict resolution activity: mediation and peace building. Finally, we ask whether the EU is a coherent actor in conflict resolution.  While policy analyses on the EU’s new role in conflict intervention abound, there have been fewer attempts to import ideas from the field of conflict resolution to studies of the EU as an international actor.

Obraz wolności słowa i prasy w Turcji na podstawie regularnych raportów Komisji Europejskiej [The image of freedom of speech and the press in Turkey on the basis of EU Reports]

by Lukasz Szulc

2008 Zeszyty prasoznawcze [Media journal] - ISSN 0555-0025 - 3-4(195-196), p. 91-115.

Public Support for the European Union in the Baltic States: Seeking the Reasons for Estonian and Latvian Divergence

by Marko Lepik

2006, Logistic Regression, Public Opinion, EU, Baltic States

Using arguments drawn from the studies of history, and contemporary studies on public support for the European Union,... more Using arguments drawn from the studies of history, and contemporary studies on public support for the European Union, this paper supplements the mainstream economics and cost-benefit oriented theories in order to explain the dynamics of some of the lowest levels of public support found among the new EU member states. Estonia and Latvia, which are two of the three former Soviet republics to have radically reformed their economies and political systems to reintegrate with the European communities, have consistently shown low levels of support for the EU membership. These levels have differed from those found in the third Baltic country, Lithuania, and also in several other Central and Eastern European countries, which became members of the EU in 2004. Yet, the voter turnouts of the Baltic republics in the 2003 referendums were among the highest ones. This paper uses logistic regression to test whether some specific culturo-historical factors could help explain these irregularities. In addition to a discussion of potentially significant culturo-historical factors, bundled with some findings of other off-mainstream studies, data from the Eurobarometer survey series is used for the analysis. The analysis tests the effects of cultural and historical developments, which have produced issues related to the ethnic mix, different socialization and ideological conditioning of different generations, and the importance of religion, or rather, the emphasized secularism similar to the neighbouring Scandinavian region. The study suggests different systematic interpretations to at least one of the variables – that of age – based on historical arguments. This study differs from the other few regional studies in that it tries to explain the hostility, or low aggregate support levels, as opposed to testing the general theoretical determinants of positivity towards EU membership. The paper finds both old age and membership in the largest minority group to be statistically significant predictors of negativity towards the EU, and suggests that the accuracy of models based on classical socio-economic theories alone can be improved by including culturo-historical arguments in the formulae.

What Does It Mean to Be European?

by Peter Robinett

Utjecaj procesa pregovora i prilagodbe za ulazak u EU na tržžiššte kapitala hrvatske i drugih zemalja u regiji 2008

by Tonći Svilokos

Promoting Sustainability From Above: Reflections on the influence of the EU on tourism governance

by Constantia Anastasiadou

Published in Policy Quarterly (2011), Vol 7, No 4

Due to the long-standing absence of direct and legally-binding competencies in tourism, European Union (EU) tourism... more Due to the long-standing absence of direct and legally-binding competencies in tourism, European Union (EU) tourism policy has mainly influenced tourism governance through indirect interventions and non-binding instruments (Anastasiadou, 2006, 2008a, b; Halkier, 2010). For example, in October 2007 the European Commission adopted its ‘Agenda for a sustainable and competitive European tourism’ (European Commission, 2007). This communication proposed measures aimed at complementing the EU policy interventions that have consequences for tourism and its sustainability throughout Europe. However, its overall impact on tourism structures has been miniscule; instead, impact on tourism governance has come from elsewhere.