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Coming to terms with the ‘legitimacy crisis’ of European foreign politics: The European Parliament pushing the frontiers of consultation

Wisniewski, Elisabeth - RECON - 2011

Since its early beginnings, the member states of the European Communities have tried to establish a common foreign policy and at the same time were reluctant to implement it. Only the Maastricht Treaty introduced an institutional framework. However, the emerging Common Foreign and Security...

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Debating humanitarian military interventions in the European public sphere

Kantner, Cathleen - RECON - 2011

What kind of democracy might fit the developing Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) given the political developments and the evolution of public debate on security and defence issues over the last twenty years? Different model-designs for a more democratic European Union (EU) in general...

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Choice in European reforms of social policies: The case of public employment services

Schelkle, Waltraud - RECON - 2011

Many European countries have embraced the choice agenda in welfare arrangements with a view of improving efficiency and/or quality. The motivations range from legitimising public welfare and administrative modernisation, to electoral politics and cost containment. Our research project included...

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Regional, Ethnic, European? Complex Identity Construction of Silesians in the Context of Cultural Borderland

RECON - 2011

This article shows the transformation process of regional and national identities in Silesia in the context of changes induced by the processes of European integration and globalization. The author analyses the reconstruction of the identity of Silesians – a cultural borderland group –at...

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Moving away from unanimity: Ratification of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union

Montero, Carlos Closa - RECON - 2011

The Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (TSCG) removes the unanimity requirement for entry into force. This innovation is possible because, technically, the TSCG I not an EU Treaty. It is not constructed as a reform of the EU Treaties following...

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RECON: A Feminist View

Sara Clavero, Yvonne Galligan, Cathrine Holst, Róza Vajda - RECON - 2011

This paper examines the three models of democracy delineated in the RECON project and subjects them to a feminist …. In the final section, the paper discusses how the deliberative conception of democracy underpinning the RECON analytical … concludes that RECON standard of deliberative democracy is not hostile, but silent, on this matter. …

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What Do We Owe the Poles (or the Greeks)? Three Emerging Duties of Transnational Social Justice in the European Union

Crum, Ben - RECON - 2011

This paper argues for a conception of social justice that operates beyond the nation-state but does so as an extra layer upon national conceptions of social justice. Thus, in the view transnational duties of social justice are complementary to national conceptions of social justice by, on the...

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The Role of Information and Knowledge in the EU Foreign Policy System Evidence from Heads of Mission’s Reports

Bicchi, Federica - RECON - 2011

This paper focuses on the role of information and knowledge in the EU foreign policy system. In particular, it examines the case of HoMs reports, which are drafted by Heads of Mission (HoMs) in non-EU countries about the situation on the ground and what the EU could/should do about it. They...

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European Identity as Commercium and Communio in Transnational Debates on Wars and Humanitarian Military Interventions

Kantner, Cathleen - RECON - 2011

In the discussion on the prospects for democratic reform in the European Union, a collective European identity features prominently among the preconditions of greater democracy. The lack of a common European identity in the realm of foreign, security and defence policy has often been lamented....

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Transnational Justice and Democracy

Forst, Rainer - RECON - 2011

This paper argues against three traditional dogmas in political theory: the thesis of the (conceptual and practical) incompatibility between democracy and justice; the idea that a context of justice only exists within the confines of a state; and the view that political democracy presupposes a...

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