Wegbegleiter der europäischen Integration

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
European Politics ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
History Of ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
And Training

For 60 years, the Institute for European Politics (IEP) has studied Europe—containing contributions on all the eras of its history and fields of work by 23 authors involved in shaping this unique think tank, this book reflects the history of the IEP’s rich experience of research into politics and civil society. Rooted in the post-WWII Euro-federalist movements, the IEP has gained a reputation in Germany as a forward-thinking, advisory and agenda-setting think tank through interdisciplinary research and multiple publications, conferences and training courses, and Master’s and PhD programmes. The authors of this volume offer insights into historical evolutions and fields of research extending from the options for Europe at the time of the Rome Treaties to the EU’s Central Asia Strategy today, from the efforts to bind Central Europe into the European integration process after 1989 to challenges like further democratisation and increasing the efficiency of the EU’s system. With contributions by Dr. Katrin Böttger, Dr. Gianni Bonvicini, Dr. Wolf-Ruthart Born, Elmar Brok, Dr. Vladimír Handl, Dr. Gunilla Herolf, Dr. Werner Hoyer, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Hrbek, Prof. Dr. Mathias Jopp, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Beate Kohler, Prof. Dr. Michael Kreile, Dr. Barbara Lippert, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wilfried Loth, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Marhold, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mittag, Prof. Dr. Dr. iur. habil. Dr. h.c. mult. Peter-Christian Müller-Graff, Ph.D. h.c., MAE, Dr. Elfriede Regelsberger, Axel Schäfer, Dr. Otto Schmuck, Dr. Franz Schoser, Dr. Funda Tekin, Dr. Jürgen Trumpf, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels

Has Europe Solved the Problem of War? Explaining the ‘Long Peace’ of the Post-1945 Era

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-377
Author(s):  
David Michael Green
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
60Th Anniversary ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Empirical Question ◽  
Successful Experiment ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

May 9, 2010, marks the 60th anniversary of what is arguably the boldest and ostensibly the most successful experiment in the history of international politics. On that date, in 1950, the Schuman Declaration1 was issued, seeking to release Europe from its centuries of fratricidal war, those conflagrations having just previously reached near suicidal proportions. The process of European integration – culminating in today’s European Union – was launched by six states at the heart of the continent, for the purposes of making war ‘not only unthinkable, but materially impossible.’ There is today little empirical question of Europe’s success. War between former bitter enemies has never been even remotely near the horizon during the period that has now become known as ‘The Long Peace,’ and, looking forward, such militarized conflict remains all but inconceivable. But was it the process of European integration that produced this achievement? And if so, is the model exportable to other regions? This essay catalogues the factors that account for Europe’s success in ending the scourge of war on a continent where it had been a commonly employed extension of politics for centuries. I conclude that the integration process represents an important contribution, but is only one of a plethora of causal factors that massively over-determined Europe’s long peace of our time, and that the European experiment is mostly non-exportable to other parts of the world.

scholarly journals El procedimiento de elección del Parlamento Europeo: un reflejo de la histórica doble visión del proceso de integración y la dificultad de llegar a consensos

2020 ◽  
pp. 533
Author(s):  
Covadonga Ferrer Martín de Vidales
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Democratic Institution ◽  
Universal Suffrage ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
History Of ◽  
British Case

El Parlamento Europeo es la institución más democrática de todas las que integran el marco institucional de la UE, elegido desde 1979 directamente por sus ciudadanos. La historia de construcción del procedimiento de elección del Parlamento Europeo es un fiel reflejo de la historia de la evolución del proceso de integración y de las dos diferentes visiones a la hora de avanzar en el mismo (intergubernamentalidad vs. supranacionalidad). Proceso en el que las dificultades para llegar a consensos han requerido que los avances se realicen paso a paso, muchas veces de forma lenta. Consensos aún más complejos de lograr cuando de lo que se trata es de acordar los elementos claves de un procedimiento electoral y, más en concreto, el sistema electoral a adoptar. Aspectos en los que tiene una importante influencia las distintas tradiciones constitucionales y visiones que respecto de los sistemas electorales tienen los distintos Estados miembros, como bien ejemplifica el caso británico y las reticencias que surgieron para el abandono de su tradicional sistema mayoritario para las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo.The European Parliament is the most democratic institution of the institutional framework of the UE, elected since 1979 by direct universal suffrage. The history of the construction of the European Parliament’s electoral procedure is clear reflection of the European integration process evolution and the different views with regard to it (intergovernmentalism vs. supranationalism) Process where the reach of consensus is not always easy and, therefore, requires progress to be made stepwise. Consensus that is even more difficult to attain when talking about the essential elements of an electoral procedure and, in particular, of the electoral system to adopt. Elements in which the different constitutional traditions and understandings of the Member States have a great influence, as the British case clearly exemplifies with the strong opposition that arose against the abandonment of their traditional majoritarian system.

scholarly journals Goodbye to Grand Politics: The Cane Sugar Campaign and the Limits of Transnational Activism, 1968–1974

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 518-534
Author(s):  
Peter van Dam
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Cane Sugar ◽  
European Politics ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Incremental Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Large Scale Change ◽  
Common Target

AbstractIn 1968 Dutch activists launched a campaign focused on cane sugar as a symbol of unfair trading conditions for the global South. The history of the cane sugar campaign from 1968 to 1974 highlights how European integration provided hope for large-scale change and a common target. This led activists to establish European networks and campaigns. Its demise sheds new light on the new social movements’ shift from ‘grand politics’, aimed at a sudden and drastic transformation through global and European politics, towards incremental change by locally targeting specific companies and countries.

Kryzysy w procesie integracji europejskiej i sposoby ich przezwyciężania –wprowadzenie do problematyki badań

2014 ◽  
pp. 8-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstanty A. Wojtaszczyk ◽  
Jadwiga Nadolska ◽  
Jarosław F. Czub
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research Project ◽  
Legitimacy Crisis ◽  
The Eu

The article presents the assumptions of the interdisciplinary research project, whose object of analysis are crises in the European integration process. The project distinguishes 12 planes of analysis of the crises, revealing their different aspects (crises in the integration process from a theoretical perspective, crises in the process of European integration from a historical perspective, axiological crisis, crisis of legitimacy, crisis of the model of democracy in Europe, crisis of the modernisation of the EU, financial and economic crisis, social crisis, structural crisis, crisis of communication, Poland and the crises in the EU, EU in the international arena during crisis). The article discusses the objectives and research hypothesis, significance of the project and the expected results of the project. For each module of the project, theories explaining the origin, nature, consequences and ways of overcoming the crisis phenomena were distinguished and the research methods by which research goals are planned to be achieved were specified.

ACCOUNTING IN HISTORY

2005 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen P. Walker
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Accounting History ◽  
Publication Patterns ◽  
History Of ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Agricultural Economies

Recent studies of publication patterns in accounting history portray a myopic and introspective discipline. Analyses reveal the production and dissemination of accounting history knowledge which focus predominantly on Anglo-American settings and the age of modernity. Limited opportunities exist for contributions from scholars working in languages other than English. Many of the practitioners of accounting history are also shown to be substantially disconnected from the wider community of historians. It is argued in the current paper that interdisciplinary history has the potential to enhance theoretical and methodological creativity and greater inclusivity in the accounting history academy. A practical requirement for this venture is the identification of points of connectedness between accounting and other historians. An analysis of publications with accounting content in Historical Abstracts reveals increasing interest among historians in the history of accounting. This substantial literature incorporates sites largely unfamiliar to accounting historians, such as Eastern and Central Europe and Central and South America. Historians also communicate their findings on accounting in a variety of languages. Subjects particularly deserving of interdisciplinary research engaging accounting and other historians include accounting in agricultural economies, the institutions of pre-industrial rural societies and diverse systems of government.

5. The United Kingdom: Towards Isolation and a Parting of the Ways?

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Allen
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
The Political ◽  
British Politics ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
European Diplomacy

This chapter examines the history of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European integration process. Britain’s relations with the European Union is characterized by partial Europeanization. The British ruling elite, especially the civil service, has been Europeanized. However, the political parties have been beset by internal divisions on European integration, while the British public has not been supportive of integration. The chapter first provides an overview of the UK’s European diplomacy before discussing the impact of Europeanization on British politics. It then considers the differing levels of accommodation with European integration and the changes that have accompanied the coming to power in 2010 of the Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition after a lengthy period of Labour rule (1997–2010). The chapter concludes by comparing the UK’s experience with those of fellow member states Ireland and Denmark.

scholarly journals Program of Russian art historians and training courses in this field

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (SPE3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Alekseevna Sychenkova ◽  
Oksana Viktorovna Storchai
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
Art Historians ◽  
History Of ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
And Training

The suggestions about reprinting the program of P.V. Pavlov for discussion in the academic community of historians, cultural studies scholars and art historians are expressed. The proposed scholarly discussion around the propaedeutic heritage of art historians of the 19th – early 20th centuries should become one of the steps to prepare a new version of the history of Russian art criticism.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Peter Becker ◽  
Natasha Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
International Order ◽  
Regional Approach ◽  
The Third ◽  
International Activity ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of

This introduction explores the entangled history of the Habsburg successor states and the new international order of 1919. It argues that Central Europe formed a key laboratory for tools and practices of supranational governance, thereby reframing a historiography long focused on national histories. It presents four new frameworks for analysing the interplay of nationalization and internationalization. The first concerns legacies of empire, and suggests new directions for studies of the afterlives of Habsburg rule. The second focuses on the benefits of a regional approach that moves beyond the framework of individual states. The third involves an integrated history of the interwar order in Europe that encompasses different fields of international activity and coordination. And the fourth reexamines the history of sovereignty, supranational governance, and European integration.

scholarly journals The spatial production of a border-crossing civil society in Görlitz and Zgorzelec. A German point of view

2014 ◽  
Vol 25 (25) ◽  
pp. 215-231
Author(s):  
Nicolai Teufel
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
European City ◽  
Continuous Change ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
History Of

Abstract After decades of uncertainty and continuous change to the border regime since the split-up of Görlitz into a German part west of the river Neisse, and a Polish part called Zgorzelec after the Second World War, both towns established the self-designated European City Görlitz-Zgorzelec in 1998. Although journalists and politicians maintain that Görlitz and Zgorzelec are a case model for European integration, there are obvious differences between the visions connected to the project ‘European City’ and the everyday life. Following the key research question, whether the ‘European City Görlitz-Zgorzelec’, in its attempts to develop a border-crossing civil society, is also constructed from below by citizens on both sides of the border, my contribution to the field of border studies uses a qualitative micro-level approach to these processes in the fields of culture, leisure and education. For that aim, an ethnographically inspired socio-geographical research design has been linked to Henri Lefebvre’s theoretical framework of the double triad of spatial production developed in The Production of Space (1991). From the perspective of actors in civil society in both towns, who are active in constructing, shifting and deconstructing borders, the article aims to illuminate both territorial and social bordering processes. Borderwork is embedded in and connected to transformation and peripheralisation processes, as well as to the discourses on and the funding instruments of European Integration in the context of the complex history of the Polish-German border.

scholarly journals Collaboration of Poland and Ukraine within the framework of transfrontal projects in the period of 1995-2005 years

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-11
Author(s):  
Natalia Buglay
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Barrier Function ◽  
Boundary Region ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Political Will ◽  
High Level ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
New Instruments

In the article the Polish transfrontal policy is analysed at the end of ХХ – at the beginning of ХХІ ages, that is characterized the wide palette of connections in political, economic, ecological, infrastructural, educational, cultural and humanitarian spheres. Development of transfrontal collaboration of Poland for period 1995–2005 was very much an important factor not only from point of development actually of boundary regions but also in the context of acceleration of the European integration process of country on the whole. Among Central Europe countries Poland was one of more active participants of transfrontal collaboration. It is found out, that RP is the transfrontal leader of region of Central Europe. Indisputably, that every boundary region has the specific descriptions, both positive and negative. However, will mark that a level of development of transfrontal collaboration of regions of Poland is excellent, in fact every level has both the features and depends on a nearby partner for other side of border. To our opinion, political will of sides, activity of territorial organs of power is the base condition of transfrontal collaboration. Coordination of efforts of sides is sent, foremost, on implantation of the European legal field in a national legislation, overcoming of asymmetry of development. An Ukrainian-Polish transfrontal collaboration is characterized prevailing of barrier function of border, high level of centralization of power, low bringing in, to the collaboration of local societies. After east expansion of European Union in 2004 – for the Ukrainian side new instruments and mechanisms, new instituty forms, were opened, consequently, new possibilities of transfrontal collaboration.

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