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Changes to European Security in a Communicative Perspective

Sjursen, Helene - ARENA - 2004

Based on a communicative perspective this article works out the theoretical possibility of a twofold change in European security (in the referent object of security; and in the understanding and practice of the best means to achieve security). The approach suggested should be considered...

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Social Constructivisms in Global and European Politics (A Review Essay)

Checkel, Jeffrey T. - ARENA - 2003

Social constructivism has come of age in contemporary international relations (IR) theory. Indeed, more and more submissions to presses and journals in both Europe and America characterize themselves as constructivist or situate their arguments vis-à-vis those of constructivists. In substantive...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040331

Security and defence

Sjursen, Helene - ARENA - 2003

The principal hypothesis in this paper is that a twofold change (in the referent object of security; and in the understanding and practice of the best means to achieve security) is taking place in European security and defence. In order to investigate the empirical relevance of this hypothesis,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040353

Finland and the case of a Northern dimension for the EU: Inclusion by bargaining or arguing?

Romsloe, Børge - ARENA - 2005

In 1997, Finland presented a major foreign policy initiative labelled the ‘Northern Dimension’ (ND) that was quickly included as a part of the EU’s external relations. Many analysts seem to argue that the EU’s foreign policy is a big power concert where intergovernmental bargaining...

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It’s the Process Stupid! Process Tracing in the Study of European and International Politics

Checkel, Jeffrey T. - ARENA - 2005

Process tracing is in, acquiring near buzz-word status in certain circles. Europeanists do it; IR scholars do it – all with the goal of bringing theory closer to what really goes on in the world. This makes our scholarship more policy relevant and increases the reliability of our findings -...

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Does the European Union Transform the Institution of Diplomacy?

Batora, Jozef - ARENA - 2003

Diplomacy as a framework of principles, rules and organized patterns of behavior regulating interstate relations in the Westphalian system of states is challenged by the process of European integration. This paper conceptualizes diplomacy and its change using two new institutionalist...

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Defining European Interests in Foreign Policy: Insights from the Mediterranean Case

Bicchi, Federica - ARENA - 2003

Why, how and when does an issue become a European interest and a European priority? Under what conditions does the EC/EU decide to launch a foreign policy initiative? When does a topic get on the EC/EU agenda of foreign affairs? In this paper the author raises the question of how, when and why...

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Bringing European Democracy Back In. Or how to read the German Constitutional Court's Lisbon Treaty ruling

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2010

Treaty ruling. This is needed because the ruling is ambiguous with regard to what democracy for what Union. In order to … analyse the ruling we establish three models of what European democracy possibly can amount to: Audit democracy based on the …’s argumentation does not lend support to this notion. The Court models democracy on a rather specific set of institutional …

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Elements of a sociology of European integration

Trenz, Hans-Jörg - ARENA - 2008

How can sociology contribute to the understanding of the social and political transformations that are affecting contemporary Europe? The article proposes that sociological accounts of European integration should focus around the basic problem of internal differentiation and external adaptation...

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Europe in Search of its Legitimacy - Assessing Strategies of Legitimation

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar; Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2002

How can the EU rectify its legitimacy deficit? On the basis of three logics of political integration we identify explicit strategies for how the legitimacy deficit of the EU can be remedied. The first strategy amounts to a scaling down of the ambitions of the polity-makers in the EU. If pursued...

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