Research

On May 2 Seyla Benhabib gave The ARENA Lecture 2012 on 'Challenges to cosmopolitanism in Europe'. Listen here.

At the RECON project's final public seminar, opened by Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre, researchers presented findings from 5 years of research.

The European Union (EU) is not a state, yet it has developed a foreign policy. How can this be and what characterises this policy?, Marianne Riddervold asks in her dissertation.

It is wrong to talk of just one European crisis. There are at least five European crises, says Agustín José Menéndez.

Originally intended as a celebration of MacCormick’s work this book has turned into a homage and salute after MacCormick’s passing.

RECON's outreach conference in November presented findings from 5 years of research. See the whole seminar here.

Democracy has historically developed at a national level but, with increasing internationalisation of politics, does the concept need re-working?

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.

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'.

Professor Emeritus Johan P. Olsen is one of Norway’s most prominent, most renowned and most cited social scientists.

– 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.

Controversial political debates may affect the course of European integration as mass media empower national parliamentarians in EU decision-making.

The staff of the so-called cabinets of the European Commission are more multinational than before.

How does an agency balance between being a professional information provider as well as an institutional watchdog?