Research
More knowledge on Europe in crisis
ARENA has been granted NOK 24 million from the Research Council of Norway for a cross-disciplinary project to investigate a more segmented Europe.
EPISTO kicked off
Around 60 participants contributed to the kick-off conference of the EPISTO project, which is led by Cathrine Holst.
Europe in crises, Europe as the crisis?
The 'Europe in crises'-conference gathered prominent international scholars as well as practitioners to discuss the EU crisis.
EPISTO Kick-off Conference
EPISTO inquires into the role of knowledge and expertise in modern democracies with a particular focus on 'epistocratic' developments in the European Union (epistocracy = rule of the knowers).
Nationalism is the last refuge of the bankers
It is trivial to say that the European Union is going through an existential crisis. But which crisis? Whose crisis?, Agustín J. Menéndez writes.
The 1814-lectures: Fear and Freedom
Jan-Werner Müller from Princeton University gave the lecture 'Fear and Freedom: The Legacies of Mid-Twentieth-Century Liberalism' on 22 October.
Law and Democracy in Neil MacCormick's Legal and Political Theory
Originally intended as a celebration of MacCormick’s work this book has turned into a homage and salute after MacCormick’s passing.
Europe's democratic challenge
RECON's outreach conference in November presented findings from 5 years of research. See the whole seminar here.
Where is European democracy heading?
Democracy has historically developed at a national level but, with increasing internationalisation of politics, does the concept need re-working?
A wake up call for the West
The Dutch journalist Geert Mak presented a powerful wake up call for us, citizens of the West, regarding our self-images and the need to revise them.
Forging a constitution
The European Union has given rise to important constitutional conundrums and paradoxes, as John Erik Fossum and Agustín José Menéndez explore in detail in their new book, 'The Constitution's Gift'.
Organization, power and appropriateness
Professor Emeritus Johan P. Olsen is one of Norway’s most prominent, most renowned and most cited social scientists.
A more personal book
– My new book is an attempt to understand not only what is happening in political science and institutional analysis, but also an attempt to understand what I have been doing over the last 40 years.
Media empower national parliamentarians
Controversial political debates may affect the course of European integration as mass media empower national parliamentarians in EU decision-making.
More multinational than before
The staff of the so-called cabinets of the European Commission are more multinational than before.
The Evolution of a European agency
How does an agency balance between being a professional information provider as well as an institutional watchdog?
News
- Case ERT: a [failed?] attempt to manufacture consent Jun 14, 2013
- Iceland’s election results are not a vote against the EU Apr 30, 2013
- The European Commission is a unique ‘laboratory’ for supranational institution building Mar 20, 2013
- The CSDP and the transatlantic partnership Mar 19, 2013
- Nationalism is the last refuge of the bankers Mar 14, 2013
Publications
- Democratic Governance and the Challenge of Executive Dominance Jun 12, 2013
- International Bureaucracy Jun 11, 2013
- Book review: The European Constitution, Welfare States and Democracy Jun 5, 2013
- Parliament Staff May 30, 2013
- Strategic Agency and System Diversity Apr 8, 2013
