Obsolete if obstinate? Transforming European Union studies in the transnational era

2010 ◽  
pp. 13-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Warleigh-Lack
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Union Studies

'Poland Has Always Been in Europe'

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marysia Galbraith
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Interests ◽  
Careful Observation ◽  
Meaningful Engagement ◽  
Global Imaginary ◽  
European Union Studies ◽  
The Eu ◽  
National Borders

The paper explores ways in which individuals make use of the opportunities and resources provided by the European Union (EU), and how such instrumentalities can make the concept of Europe more salient for citizens. This is important to European Union studies generally because careful observation and analysis of everyday engagements can help to reveal the basis upon which the EU gains legitimacy, or, alternatively, the grounds for resistance to further integration. Through an examination of Poles' experiences of mobility, and their reflections about crossing national borders to work and travel, the paper shows that instrumentality is not just motivated by economic interests, but also by the desire to advance culturally, socially and symbolically within a global imaginary of hierarchically ranked nations. As such, support for European integration tends to weaken in situations where ongoing inequalities and exclusions lead to perceptions of social demotion. Further, instrumentalities can deepen meaningful engagement with the EU in ways that also reassert national loyalties.

scholarly journals Crossroads in European Union Studies

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kennet Lynggaard ◽  
Karl Löfgren ◽  
Ian Manners
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Union Studies

A Theoretical Insight Into the Multi-Level Governance

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Dilek Dede
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Foreign Politics ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
European Union Studies ◽  
Theoretical Insight ◽  
Insight Into

Multi-level governance has been described as an updated form of governance that began in the early 1990s. The traditional distinction between domestic and foreign politics was eliminated in the same period. This study aims at clarifying the concept of multi-level governance in both the Europeanization literature and the European Union studies. The research question is, What are the definitions, dynamics, characteristics of multi-level governance in both the Europeanization literature and the European Union studies? In methodology, it is a theoretical study that remains on literature review.

scholarly journals The Study of National Preference Formation in Times of the Euro Crisis and Beyond

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hussein Kassim ◽  
Sabine Saurugger ◽  
Uwe Puetter
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political Process ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Preference Formation ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Liberal Intergovernmentalism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
European Union Studies

The aim of its introduction is threefold: We start from a conceptual clarification of preference formation, defining it provisionally as a political process ‘by which social actors decide what they want and what to pursue’. After an analysis of different conceptual and theoretical approaches, the introduction offers a critique of liberal intergovernmentalism, one of the major explanatory frameworks of preference formation in European Union studies. This critique centres on the context in which national preference formation took place during the European Monetary Union crisis. This special issue argues that the conceptualisation of preference formation as state-based, unidirectional and unchanged by the regime is deeply problematic. Preference formation is typically messy and non-linear and rarely closed to the possibility that both preferences and positions may change, sometimes radically, it is even more complex, context-sensitive, and open to a wide range of influences in a multi-level system such as the European Union. In other words, the traditional understanding of preference formation as a purely domestic process of interest aggregation and competition require revision given the multiple factors that shape preferences in general and in the interdependent policy-making of the European Union in particular.

do we need a core curriculum in european union studies?

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Rumford ◽  
Philomena Murray
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
European Union Studies

European Union Studies as a Tributary of Global Policy and Transnational Administration

2019 ◽  
pp. 292-309
Author(s):  
Stella Ladi
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Global Policy ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Networks Analysis ◽  
European Union Studies ◽  
Analytical Frameworks ◽  
The Eu

The study of European Union (EU) governance and policy making processes, as well as its impact upon member states and beyond, can be inspiring for the development of theoretical propositions on global policy and transnational administration, and vice versa. For a long time, the EU has been perceived as a unique governance structure because it is neither a federal state nor an intergovernmental international organization and thus new models and concepts have been developed in order to analyse it. The aim of this chapter is to outline some of the most influential conceptual frameworks (e.g. multi-level governance, EU networks analysis, and Europeanization) in EU studies and to show how they can be translated into useful analytical frameworks for the analysis of global policy and transnational administration. The literature on the role of the EU as a global actor is also reviewed since it directly connects the European and global levels of analysis.

scholarly journals The EU-Eastern Partnership Countries: Association Agreements and Transdisciplinarity in Studies, Training and Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-149
Author(s):  
Tatyana Muravska ◽  
Alexandre Berlin
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Member States ◽  
Association Agreement ◽  
Eastern Partnership ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Eastern Partnership Countries ◽  
European Union Studies ◽  
The Eu

Abstract The European Union (EU) signed Association Agreements on 27 June 2014 with Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine. The Association Agreement (AA) is the EU’s main instrument to bring the countries in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) closer to EU standards and norms. For the citizens of the EaP countries to benefit from these agreements, a more in-depth knowledge of the EU and the EU Member States is required to be reflected in a comparative approach to European Union studies. We examine these implications on the need to expand and adapt, the content and approach to research and teaching European Union studies, with the transdisciplinary approach becoming increasingly dominant, becoming a modern tool for research in social sciences. This contribution aims to offer insight into the implementation of transdisciplinarity in the methodology of education and research as it is determined by current increasing global challenges. This approach should serve as a means of integrating a number of main goals as part of learning, teaching and research processes: strengthening employability of young people and preparing them for citizenship. We discuss the need for modernizing European studies in the EU Member States that could serve as an example for the EU Eastern Partnership countries. We conclude that the theoretical approach to European and related studies of other disciplines and their practical implications should always be transdisciplinary in nature and benefit from direct in-situ exposure and should be fully integrated in university curricula

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