Nettsider med emneord «Ideas»
Which way ahead for the EU? This article addresses some pivotal questions concerning the future of the European Union, with Joschka Fischer's Humboldt speech as point of departure.
ARENA Working Paper 19/2000 (html)
Agustín José Menéndez
This paper addresses Joschka Fischer's vision for Europe by way of institutionalist theory; how and by what instruments can a transition of the EU in line with Fischer's vision be conducted and controlled?
ARENA Working Paper 22/2000 (html)
Johan P. Olsen
How can we decide if a political order is a state or not? This paper discusses the ontological quality of the state and what follows from that to its analysis.
ARENA Working Paper 11/2011 (pdf)
Daniel Gaus
What are the causal variables behind domestic structural change? This paper sketches a comparative analysis of three 'most different cases' of the Eastern bloc; one of the conclusions drawn is that individual agency, while crucial in an authoritarian setting, must be supplemented by constructivist insights of social learning and ideational exchange.
ARENA Working Paper 02/1999 (html)
Jeffrey T. Checkel
In pursuit of a norms-based perspective on governance, this paper investigates Schengen debates in the House of Lords; it is shown that British restraints have raised to salience the concept of flexibility as foundational to the emerging EU polity.
ARENA Working Paper 01/2000 (html)
Antje Wiener