scholarly journals Respect My Right to Dominate

Intersections ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Péter Csigó ◽  
Máté Zombory
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Basic Principle ◽  
Institutional Changes ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Memory Politics ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Conceptual Distinction ◽  
Universal Dignity ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
Inner Contradictions

In this article, we present how the recognition framework of political and historic representation has enabled reactionary political forces, which increasingly recognize its inner contradictions and turn them against the basic principle of universal dignity, with the clear aim of corroding the whole recognition political edifice from the inside out. Taking the field of the symbolic construction of European identity as our main focus, we will reconstruct how the takeover of recognition politics has destabilized political and historic representation in Europe and ended up undermining European integration rather than enhancing it. Following one of the most important theorists of political and historic representation, Frank Ankersmit, we introduce the conceptual distinction between antifoundationalist vs. founda-tionalist representation in order to account for the series of decisive institutional changes that since the 1970s have contributed to the intersection of two separate fields into ‘memory politics’ and led to the rise of a new and inherently non-democratic foundationalism, of which recognition politics is one of the main symptoms.

The European identity formation in Ukraine

2017 ◽  
pp. 102-109
Author(s):  
Larysa Kovryk-Tokar
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
European Integration ◽  
European Community ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
European Identity ◽  
European Values

Every nation is quite diverse in terms of his historical destiny, spiritual priorities, and cultural heritage. However, voluntary European integration, which is the final aim of political integration that began in the second half of the twentieth century from Western Europe, provided for an availability of large number of characteristics in common in political cultures of their societies. Therefore, Ukraine needs to find some common determinants that can create inextricable relationship between the European Community and Ukraine. Although Ukrainian culture is an intercultural weave of two East macrocivilizations, according to the author, Ukraine tends to Western-style society with its openness, democracy, tolerance, which constitute the basic values of Europeans. Keywords: Identity, collective identity, European values, European integration

Turning accounting for emissions rights inside out as well as upside down

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thereza RS de Aguiar
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Reporting Standards ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Technical Challenges ◽  
Inside Out

This study involves narrative research on the importance of a life cycle norm in the context of accounting for emissions allowances. The analysis presented in this article emphasizes, in particular, those technical challenges that standard setters face when governing and legislating on how emissions rights are financially accounted. This study supports the notion that the legitimacy of standard setters during these occasions is highly influenced by the market and by political forces. This study also suggests that setting financial reporting standards on emissions allowances must follow a cycle to secure detailed research on the topic and to promote broader stakeholder engagement.

Europe's history of integration and diversity

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
WIM BLOCKMANS
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
European Identity ◽  
European Citizenship ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

The process of European integration, the complexity of the problems involved and even the resistance it raises, astonishes observers in other parts of the world, especially in large states that have a long history of centralized government behind them. Is there really so little unity in Europe? If so, how can this be explained? Has European diversity generated only problems or has it, in fact, created new and unique opportunities? Is there a chance that growing concerns at EU-level about the cultural dimensions of European citizenship could, in fact, consolidate a sense of community? And, finally, how can historians contribute to the creation of a common European identity, if this is so weakly developed?

Softening culture, opening Europe

Focaal ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (56) ◽  
pp. 19-34
Author(s):  
Jeff Katcherian
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Aesthetic Form

This article examines the development of cultural policy recommendations, in the form of “soft law,” by the Civil Society Platform for Intercultural Dialogue, a nascent European civil society collaboration aiming to make culture a separate political endeavor within the context of European integration. Drawing on fieldwork among European bureaucrats and members of European civil society in Brussels, Belgium, the article offers an alternative discussion from common understandings of soft law, paying close attention to law as an aesthetic form that challenges dominant modes of policy-making. An investigation of soft forms of law provides a useful perspective to those who attempt to define, locate, and create European identity.

“My European feelings are not only based on the fact that I live in Europe”

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Krzyżanowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
National Identities ◽  
European Identity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
European Citizenship ◽  
Identification Processes

Identity has recently become one of the most frequently theorised and explored topics within various sub-branches of social sciences. Collective identities in general, and their ancestry and construction in particular, are being perceived in different ways by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists and, last but not least, discourse-analysts. This article aims at shedding a new light on the concept of European identity, which, so far, has been most frequently analysed within the context of the European Union and its political and economic impact on European space. Despite drawing theoretically on some well-grounded traditions of research on European identity, such as, e.g., analysis of its contradiction and suplementariness with national identities, or, its interconnection with such concepts as European citizenship or European integration, the analysis of European identity presented here is put in the context of globally understood identification processes. Empirically, the article draws on the analysis of TV talk show thematically bound by the topics concerning European Union’s impact on national identities.

scholarly journals Globalisation as a Hidden Stimulus of the Growth of European Territorial Identity

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Jan Sucháček
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
European History ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
European Context ◽  
Territorial Identity ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Trigger Mechanisms

The issue of identity becomes a subject of an enlarged interest especially in view of progressing European integration. This paper is a reflection on the growing extent of the consciousness of European territorial identity and tries to uncover the underlying factors of this development. It is empirically well documented that Europeans can be increasingly characterized by multiple territorial identities, i.e. simultaneous identities to a variety of territorial communities. It is argued that exclusive identities as an inseparable part of European history and memory acted as one of trigger mechanisms of nationalism. Therefore, the shift from exclusive identities to the over-arching European identity seems to be desirable supplement to the current integration process. There is ample evidence that European administration supports the creation of European identity. Officially, fostered idea of European identity has found a striking and unexpected ally in the form of globalisation. Global processes became one of the stimuli of the growth of multiple territorial identities. Since the same applies to European territorial identity, individuals increasingly find themselves within European territorial identity, individuals increasingly find themselves within European context as well. The main aim of this article is thus to illuminate and conceptualise the relation between globalisation and territorial identities, with special emphasis on European territorial identity.

scholarly journals Political dimension of European constitutionalism

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-170
Author(s):  
Patricia Kaplánová ◽  
Uroš Pinterič
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
International Organization ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
European Constitution

Abstract Author in the article tries to analyse different elements of document called European Constitution. Analysis is supported with theoretical framework of federalism, presented by Brezovšek. Authors is playing with idea of (con)federal and international organization elements of European Constitution and their mix. They are also trying to set some connections between so called common European identity as necessary condition to give legitimacy to the European Constitution. This became important question after „votes of non-confidence“ to the European Constitution in France, despite it should be addressed already before. However, European Constitution is important document on the path of European integration and lack of support to it will slow down this process of widening and deepening European ties.

Euroscepticism and Protestant Heritage: The Role of Religion on EU Issue Voting

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-149
Author(s):  
Margarete Scherer
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
The Political ◽  
European Identity ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Issue Voting ◽  
Using Data ◽  
European Parliament Elections ◽  
Role Of Religion

AbstractThis paper focuses on the historical ties between Protestantism and the nation-state, as well as between Catholicism and supranationalism, to widen the political science debate on different conditions of EU issue voting. Research suggests that the political context in each nation-state shapes the extent to which individual Eurosceptic attitudes influence the decision to vote for Eurosceptic parties. In addition to this, I expect that a nations' religious background responds differently to this relationship. Using data from the 2014 European Parliament elections, I show that citizens from predominantly Protestant countries actually decide for Eurosceptic parties if they hold negative attitudes towards European integration. In contrast, citizens from predominantly Catholic countries may or may not vote for Eurosceptic parties, but their voting decision is not based on individual EU attitudes such as support for European integration, trust in EU institutions or European identity.

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