9. Discursive Approaches

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ole Wæver
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
European Union Enlargement ◽  
The Third ◽  
Theory Of Discourse

This chapter examines discourse analysis as an approach to the study of European integration. It first provides an overview of the basic idea(s) underlying discourse analysis before tracing its philosophical roots. It then considers when and how discourse analysis entered political science, international relations, and European integration studies. It also explores three examples of bodies of work that have each operationalized discourse analysis in a particular way in order to make it speak to European integration: the first covers governance and political struggle; the second approach posits the configuration of concepts of nation, state, and Europe as the basis for building theory of discourse as layered structures able to explain foreign policy options for a given state; and the third focuses on the project of European integration as a productive paradox. The chapter concludes by discussing the application of discourse analysis to the nature of the European Union enlargement process.

scholarly journals 8. Discourse and European Integration

2018 ◽  
pp. 151-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Wodak
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
European Union Enlargement ◽  
The Third ◽  
Discourse Studies

This chapter examines discourse analysis as an approach to the study of European integration. It first provides an overview of the basic principles underlying discourse studies before tracing its philosophical roots. It then considers when and how discourse studies entered political science, international relations, and European integration studies. It explores three examples of bodies of work that have each operationalized discourse (analysis) in a particular way in order to make it speak to European integration: the first covers governance and political struggle; the second approach posits the discursive configuration of concepts of nation, state, and Europe as layered structures able to explain foreign policy options for a given state; and the third focuses on the project of European integration as a productive paradox. The chapter concludes with a case study on the mediatization and politicization of the refugee crisis in Austria from 2015-2016 by discussing the application of discourse analysis to the nature of the European Union enlargement process.

scholarly journals Value Added Taxation during the Third European Integration (the Treaty of Rome of 1957)

Taxes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Dmitriy G. Bachurin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Development ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Economic Integration ◽  
Value Added ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Third ◽  
Treaty Of Rome ◽  
Legal Mechanism

Based on an analysis of the regulatory framework of the modified value added tax (VAT), the author has studied the characteristics and singled out periods of the Europe-wide value added taxation. It is noted that the legal mechanism of value added taxation acquires the quality of a rather dynamic regulator of economics in the conditions of the European Union, while the arising effects of social correction, slowdown of capital widening and economic integration processes positively affect social development in each socially oriented European states.

The Challenge of European Union

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bellamy
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
International Politics ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Constitutional Treaty ◽  
Intergovernmental Organization ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Eu

This article examines the political challenges of the European Union (EU). It explains that political theorists and scientists alike have viewed European integration as a laboratory for exploring how far the nation state, and the forms of domestic and international politics to which it gave rise, has been affected by the various processes associated with globalization. It discusses the Charter of Rights and Constitutional Treaty of the EU and suggests that the EU can be plausibly characterized as an intergovernmental organization of an advanced kind, a nascent federation of states, and a new form of post-national and post-state entity.

11. Normative Theory and the EU: Between Contract and Community

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bellamy ◽  
Claudia Attucci
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Normative Theory ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Integration Theory ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
The Eu

This chapter examines the input of normative theory to European integration theory. It first provides a historical background on social contract theory in Europe, followed by an analysis of John Rawls’s work as a way to explore the contribution of contractarian thinking to the normative dilemmas confronting the European Union. In particular, it considers Rawls’s two principles of justice. It also discusses three approaches that emphasize the centrality of democracy and have informed normative assessments of the democratic credentials of the EU, focusing on the writings of Jurgen Habermas, the national limits to the EU, and the normative position that makes sense of the EU’s character as ‘betwixt and between’ the nation state and a supranational institution. The chapter concludes with an assessment of how enlargement illustrates both the appeal of the normative approach and the difficulties it faces.

scholarly journals The EU’s Discourse on Sovereignty: Content and Consequences

2021 ◽  
Vol 105 (5) ◽  
pp. 32-44
Author(s):  
Tatyana Romanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Third ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Expert Community ◽  
Supranational Level ◽  
The Eu

Emmanuel Macron‟s 2017 speeches gave start to the discourse on the European Union‟s (EU‟s) sovereignty. This discourse has been advanced by the national and supranational elite of the EU as well as by its expert community. The article identifies key characteristics of this discourse and its potential consequences for the EU and its relations with Russia. The four ways (attributes) in which sovereignty has been used as identified by Stephen Krasner are used as the theoretical basis of the analysis. With the help of discourse analysis, the author identifies three dimensions in the EU‟s discourse on sovereignty: these are Westphalian, interdependence and domestic sovereignties. The first and the second manifest themselves in the economic field (in particular, in the regulation of the digital sphere), the third one is linked to the discussion on cooperation in the field of security and defence. The discussion on strengthening of the supranational level in the field of security and defence substitutes the absence of the discussion on citizens as holders of domestic sovereignty; it limits the potential of the EU‟s sovereignty. De facto, the discourse on the EU‟s sovereignty is a response to global processes, where the EU finds challenges and threats for itself. References to values and to the EU as its agent form an important component of the discourse on the EU‟s sovereignty. Externally the EU as a result demonstrates both its wish for more independence from external players and its determination to maintain its participation in the globalization processes. The rhetoric of sovereignty also conceptually means the EU‟s refusal of ambitions to be a normative power. Sovereignty has also been an integral part of EU-Russian discussions. Yet the EU‟s discourse on sovereignty does not create any prospects for improving this relationship.

scholarly journals The Status of the European Integration Process of the Western Balkan Countries

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Agata Domachowska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Important Region ◽  
Balkan Countries ◽  
The Status ◽  
Balkan States ◽  
The Eu

For many years, the priority of foreign policy determined by subsequent governments of the six Western Balkan countries, i.e., Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia has been their accession to the European Union. Yet, in recent years, this process has slowed down, and so it can be assumed that in the coming years there will be no further enlargement of the EU to include any of the Western Balkan countries. The following article is aimed at analysing the present status of European integration with regard to the aforementioned states, and discusses the causes of regression in this process which can be identified on the side of the non-EU Western Balkan states and the European Union itself. Their integration is also a key issue in the context of the increasingly stronger presence of non-EU players such as China, Russia, and Turkey, all competing with the European Union for influence in this important region. The study was based on discourse analysis (including the critical discourse analysis approach) and content analysis.

scholarly journals European Civil Society or Civil Society of the European Countries?

2016 ◽  
pp. 61-70
Author(s):  
A A Kanunnikov
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
European Integration ◽  
The State ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Civil Society Participation

This article is devoted to the study of civil society in the European Union. It shows the existence of two terms - “European civil society” and “civil society in Europe”. There is a vagueness of the term “European civil society” because it does not disclose the principle of belonging to a “European civil society” - a socio-cultural or geographical. There is a doubt about the possibility of the application of the civil society concept developed to describe the realities at the level of the nation-state, to the description of the phenomenon at a transnational level, for example, in the case of the European Union. The article shows three periods of civil society participation in the European integration process. The article concludes that is premature to consider the European civil society as an autonomous social sphere, opposing the state.

Representations of the European Union and the nation(-state) in Italian party discourse

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankica Kosic ◽  
Anna Triandafyllidou
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Parliamentary Debates ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Party Ideology ◽  
The Relationship

Research on party attitudes towards European integration has concentrated on the relationship between party ideology and positions related to European integration as an economic and/or political process, ignoring the representational aspect of party discourse. This study aims to contribute towards filling this gap by examining how Italian parties represent the European Union, the nation(-state) and the relationship between the two in their electoral platforms and parliamentary debates. We shall therefore analyse critically how parties use specific representations of Europe, the EU and the nation to frame and support their ideologies and positions and how they shape these representations in different ways depending on the challenge they are confronted with. We shall also look beyond presumed clear-cut relationships between party ideology and party attitudes towards European integration, exploring the complexities and ambiguities of party discourse and highlighting how specific EU or nation representations are used as legitimisation strategies by parties in combination to their left- or right-wing ideology.

6. Policy Networks

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Peterson
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Policy Network ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Network Approach ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter examines the policy network approach to the analysis of European governance. The European Union has three primary features that lend itself to policy network analysis: the formidable power of the European Parliament (EP), EU’s status as an extraordinarily ‘differentiated polity’, and the fact that EU policy-making is underpinned by a complex labyrinth of committees that shape policy options before policies are ‘set’ by overtly political decisionmakers such as the EP. The chapter first traces the origins of policy network analysis before explaining the importance of policy networks for European integration. It then considers a host of criticisms levelled against policy network analysis and the application of the approach to Eurojust and the European Judicial Network. It also shows how policy network analysis might help us to shed light on the EU after its radical enlargement and concludes by reflecting on the future of policy network analysis.

scholarly journals Conferência sobre o Futuro da Europa: uma resposta política à ameaça populista à integração europeia?

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 43-59
Author(s):  
Cláudia Ramos
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
New Method ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Institutions ◽  
The Future ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
European Parliament Elections

The Conference on the Future of Europe was launched in March, 2021 by the European institutions, with the aim of creating a platform for bottom up citizen participation in the definition of policy options for the “future of Europe”. This article analyses the institutional and party discourses on the Conference, in the framework of the reaction of those institutions and of the pro-integration parties to the mounting populist “threat” to European integration, notably as expressed in the outcome of the 2019 European Parliament elections. The author aims to establish whether in doing so the European Union is innovating, by overcoming conventional representative democracy participation and thus entering other complementary models. The article further discusses whether this new method bridges the gap with the citizens, whom populisms have tried to mobilize.

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