The politics of the EU

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanns W Maull
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
Liberal Theory ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Bilateral Relationship ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu ◽  
The Way

The article looks at the politics of the European Union’s policies towards China, using the liberal theory of international politics of Andrew Moravcsik as a framework for analysis. It concludes that these policies are structurally fragmented, incoherent and inconsistent because of the way they are formulated and implemented. The preponderance of commercial preferences and the insistence on national sovereignty are crucial to understanding why this is the case. As a consequence, the European position in the bilateral relationship is weakened and the relationship itself is unbalanced.

The Sub-National International Cooperation in the Relationship Between Argentina and China

2020 ◽  
pp. 28-49
Author(s):  
Facundo Carcedo
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
National Level ◽  
Asian Country ◽  
Buenos Aires Province ◽  
Bilateral Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

The chapter outlines the theoretical approach used in this research. Based on the relationship between China and Argentina, the chapter proposes a study of the links at the sub-national level between both states, specifically the ties between the Buenos Aires Province with Chinese counterparts, the municipality of Bahia Blanca with Dalian, and the municipality of General Pueyrredón with Tianjin, which is constituted as an innovator subject in the bilateral relationship and where a lack of recent research has been found. Conclusions will be presented to demonstrate the huge potential to increase the economic, political, cultural, educational, and commercial ties at the subnational level between Argentina and China provinces and local governments and to analyze from the IR discipline the participation of the Asian country in the Argentine sub-national international politics.

Empires, systems and states: great transformations in international politics

2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Cox ◽  
Tim Dunne ◽  
Ken Booth
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
International History ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

‘History is too important to be left to the historians”.The relationship between history, international history and international relations has never been an easy or a particularly amicable one. To talk of a cold war may be something of an exaggeration, but it does capture something about the way in which the various subjects tended to regard the other for the greater part of the post-war period. Thus practising historians and international historians appeared to have little time for each other, and together had even less for those seeking to establish the new discipline of International Relations.

The EU Home and Home-Host Dilemma

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-162
Author(s):  
Dalvinder Singh
Keyword(s):  
Potential Outcomes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks at the relationship between the home and host when it comes to resolution of banks. Specifically, it analyses the responsibilities of each when it comes to branches and subsidiaries. This essentially leads to two potential outcomes: group resolution and entity level resolution. The resolution colleges play an important part in informing resolution decisions. However, a significant level of discretion exists and the home resolution authority can play a role that influences the way information is shared. The chapter then explores the role of the ECB and the Single Resolution Board (SRB) in forming the decision of whether a bank is failing or likely to fail. It specifically considers the ability to intervene in the restructuring of banks inside resolution.

National Sovereignty, European Integration and Domination in the Eurozone

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-237
Author(s):  
Georgios Maris
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Main Question ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Complementary Study ◽  
The Eu

The main question this article seeks to answer is: who governs who within the EU? To provide an answer, we will analyse the relationship between national sovereignty and the ability to exercise independent economic policy within the EMU, as well as re-examine the development of this relationship regarding the process of European integration. This research offers a complementary study to understand better the relationship between European integration and national sovereignty.

Two Countries in Crisis: Economic Inequality in the EU and Disidentification With Europe in Spain and Greece

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 888-906 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Petkanopoulou ◽  
Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez ◽  
Guillermo B. Willis ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou ◽  
Rosa Rodríguez-Bailón
Keyword(s):  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
National Identities ◽  
European Identity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Subjective Socioeconomic Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Fundamental Values ◽  
The Eu

European identity is currently facing important challenges. From the beginning, European identity has been related to the national identities of Member States with different economic strengths. The recent economic recession made these disparities salient across countries. In this research conducted in two countries with relative low status in the European Union (EU), we explored whether the perceived disparities in wealth between the countries of the EU—perceived economic inequality—predicted disidentification with Europe. We also examined the mediators of this relationship. Study 1, conducted in Spain, revealed that perceived economic inequality positively predicted disidentification with Europe; importantly, this effect remained when controlling for individuals’ subjective socioeconomic status and the perceived status of the country. The experience of fear of economic inequality in the EU mediated this relationship. The results of Study 1 were replicated comparing a Spanish sample (Study 2a) and a Greek sample (Study 2b). These studies delved deeper into the specific appraisals of fear that mediate the relationship between economic inequality and disidentification with Europe. Four categories of fear appraisals obtained in a preliminary qualitative study were measured as potential mediators: losing national sovereignty, worsening of living conditions, being negatively stereotyped, and Europe losing fundamental values. The relationship between economic inequality in the EU and disidentification with Europe was mediated by fear of losing national sovereignty and fear of Europe losing fundamental values.

Just the facts: why norms remain relevant in an age of practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-230
Author(s):  
Miles M. Evers
Keyword(s):  
Complex Network ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
International Norms ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
As If ◽  
The Way

AbstractReification – the act of treating something socially created as if it were real – is often described as a problem in the study of international norms. Critical and post-colonial scholars argue that reification silences alternative worldviews, whereas practice-oriented scholars argue it diminishes agency and practical innovation. In his article ‘From Norms to Normative Configurations,’ Simon Pratt proposes a solution to the problem of reification, reconceiving norms as a configuration of interrelated social practices. In this piece, I argue that the conventional wisdom is wrong. Reification is an essential part of how norms are constructed, contested, and surmounted in international politics. I revisit the foundational figures in norms research to highlight problems in Pratt's analysis, and prove the value of reification, both analytically and methodologically. Then, I use these insights to amend the concept of normative configuration, redefining it as a complex network of discrete norms tied together through common social practices. Along the way, I offer directions for future research on the relationship between norms and practices.

A world of their making: an evaluation of the constructivist critique in International Relations

2000 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
RONEN PALAN
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Ir Theory ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

IR constructivism maintain that a proper understanding of the way subjects interact with the world and with each other alerts us to the fallacy of conventional IR theory. And yet, for a theory that is so obviously dependent upon a rigorous working of the relationship between social theory and its IR variant, it is curious that, with one or two exceptions, IR constructivists often advance incompatible theories. I argue that the confused manner by which, in particular, ‘soft’ constructivism relates to social theory is not accidental but a necessary component of a theory that asserts, but never proves, the primacy of norms and laws over material considerations, in domestic and international politics.

scholarly journals Unthought and unrepresentable? The European territorial paradox

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-139
Author(s):  
Sylvain KAHN ◽  
◽  
Yann RICHARD ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Crucial Issue ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu ◽  
The Way

The crisis of the European Union is partially linked to the fact that it has not become an identity referent for the European citizens. This is a crucial issue because the revival of European integration could precisely be based on the ability of Europeans to take ownership of the European construction. We set out two hypotheses: first that the weakness of the EU is intrinsic to the way it is constructed as a territory from one day to the next; second that the EU cannot be an object of social representation shared by European citizens. We show that the territoriality of the EU is ambiguous. We then define the EU as a particular type of political construction, in which pooling mechanisms render the relationship between territory and sovereignty hard to read. Finally, we show that Europeans are not able to produce a common territorial reference.

The Type of Temperament, Mood, and Strategies of Categorization

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 227-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agata Wytykowska
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Processing Capacity ◽  
Affective Value ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

In Strelau’s theory of temperament (RTT), there are four types of temperament, differentiated according to low vs. high stimulation processing capacity and to the level of their internal harmonization. The type of temperament is considered harmonized when the constellation of all temperamental traits is internally matched to the need for stimulation, which is related to effectiveness of stimulation processing. In nonharmonized temperamental structure, an internal mismatch is observed which is linked to ineffectiveness of stimulation processing. The three studies presented here investigated the relationship between temperamental structures and the strategies of categorization. Results revealed that subjects with harmonized structures efficiently control the level of stimulation stemming from the cognitive activity, independent of the affective value of situation. The pattern of results attained for subjects with nonharmonized structures was more ambiguous: They were as good as subjects with harmonized structures at adjusting the way of information processing to their stimulation processing capacities, but they also proved to be more responsive to the affective character of stimulation (positive or negative mood).

Understanding prescription in language. A corpus-based approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-81
Author(s):  
Douglas A. Kibbee ◽  
Alan Craig
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
French Tradition ◽  
Linguistic Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

We define prescription as any intervention in the way another person speaks. Long excluded from linguistics as unscientific, prescription is in fact a natural part of linguistic behavior. We seek to understand the logic and method of prescriptivism through the study of usage manuals: their authors, sources and audience; their social context; the categories of “errors” targeted; the justification for correction; the phrasing of prescription; the relationship between demonstrated usage and the usage prescribed; the effect of the prescription. Our corpus is a collection of about 30 usage manuals in the French tradition. Eventually we hope to create a database permitting easy comparison of these features.

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