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The democratic deficit in the EU’s security and defense policy – why bother?

Wagner, Wolfgang - RECON - 2007

Even though the member states have kept the European Union’s security and defense policy intergovernmental, there has been an emerging democratic deficit in this issue area. Given the standard version of the democratic deficit as a result from Qualified Majority Voting in the Council and from...

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Adversary or ‘depoliticized’ institution? Democratizing the Constitutional Convention

Hüller, Thorsten - RECON - 2007

This paper is about a counterfactual empirical assumption: If the Laeken convention had been elected, we would have had a more democratic as well as a more legitimate process of European constitution making. Electing conventioneers and re-opening the convention is probably a successful way to...

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Regional federalisation with a cosmopolitan intent

Mikalsen, Kjartan Koch - RECON - 2009

This paper deals with the issue of institutionalising a legal pacifistic international order. While Kant’s idea of perpetual peace serves as the point of departure, it is argued that in order to find a proper institutional arrangement one would have to look beyond the two notions found in...

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Assessing Gender Democracy in the European Union. A Methodological Framework

Galligan, Yvonne; Clavero, Sara - RECON - 2008

This paper presents a methodological framework for assessing the quality of democracy in the European Union from a … Democracy in Europe (RECON). After describing the general background to the development of this methodology, the paper discusses … ‘gender democracy’? What are the purposes of this assessment? How can we move from abstract concepts such as gender democracy …

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Integration without democracy? Three conceptions of European Security Policy in transformation

Sjursen, Helene - RECON - 2007

accountability. But in order to properly assess the state of democracy in this policy field it is necessary first to define the …

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Trenz, Hans-Jörg - RECON - 2009

demos of a European democracy. Against the common view that holds the self-identified political community as prior and … independent of constitutional designing, it is claimed that democracy rather operates through the identification of popular …

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European Identity Formation in the Public Sphere and in Foreign Policy

Risse, Thomas; Grabowsky, Jana Katharina - RECON - 2008

While in political debates identity is often considered as given, scholars of social sciences concentrate on the formation of new and particularly transnational identities. Insights from nationalism reveal mechanisms of identity formation but European integration has taken its own way. We...

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Deliberating CFSP: European Foreign Policy and the International Criminal Court

Deitelhoff, Nicole - RECON - 2008

and strategies, such as democracy, rule of law, fundamental rights, and the CFSP’s procedural norms (e.g., regular …

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Researching gender democracy in the European Union: Challenges and prospects

Galligan, Yvonne; Clavero, Sara - RECON - 2008

This paper outlines a research programme for the study of democracy in the European Union (EU) from a gender … perspective. It takes as its point of departure the recent turn to deliberative democracy in the field of EU studies, and more … within this complex polity. The paper then discusses the relevance of deliberative democracy to research on gender in the EU …

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The European Union’s Enlargement Process and the Collective Identity Formation in Turkey; The interplay of multiple identities

Gürsoy, Yaprak; Müftüler-Baç, Meltem - RECON - 2008

conditionality influences Turkish collective identity by bringing to the forefront issues on democracy, civilian control of the … political groups in Turkey react to the reform process and argues that there is an ongoing adaptation process in Turkish … two different levels: First, Turkey increasingly accepts the EU norms in civil-military relations, human rights and …

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