Webpages tagged with « identity»

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

Analysing the implications of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, this paper argues that the Charter represents a culmination of the EU as a rights-based entity. Effects of this formalisation will be manifest in the EU's external relations - that is, towards applicant countries as well as in the common foreign and security policy.

ARENA Working Paper 18/2002 (html)

Agustín José Menéndez

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

What are the achievements of the Convention on the future of Europe? In the light of contrasting constitutional visions, the paper discusses whether the document produced by the Convention should be seen as constitutional treaty or constitution proper. It arrives at the conclusion that no unequivocal judgement can be made; however, the Convention makes certain qualitative leaps away from treaty towards constitutional patriotism.

ARENA Working Paper 21/2003 (pdf)

John Erik Fossum

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

This paper discusses what kind of allegiance the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights might be based upon. Raising the issue of constitutional patriotism, on which similar documents have typically been built in the past, the author argues that recognition of Europe's deep diversity makes a better foundation for allegiance to the Charter.

ARENA Working Paper 05/2003 (pdf)

John Erik Fossum

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

This paper presents the results of a unique empirical study on committe identity and allegiance. One of the observations is that while multiple allegiance is a universal feature of committe work, the relative weight of national, supranational and sectoral loyalties vary systematically between Council and Commission committees.

ARENA Working Paper 02/2003 (pdf)

Morten Egeberg, Guenther F. Schaefer and Jarle Trondal

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

To what extent may interaction in Europe transform actors' identities and values? This paper investigates this question drawing on material from Council of Europe committees.

ARENA Working Paper 12/2000 (html)

Jeffrey T. Checkel

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

Discussing three alternative justifications for a common EU foreign policy, this paper finds the common values thesis to be the most persuasive in a case study of EU enlargement.

ARENA Working Paper 01/2001 (html)

Helene Sjursen and Karen E. Smith

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

This paper gives a critical account of the Norwegian appraoch to European integration five years in the wake of the EU referendum.

ARENA Working Paper 04/2000 (html)

Svein S. Andersen

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

This paper addresses the overarching question of citizenship and community in the present EU; its key focus is on the Federal Republic of Germany, to which is applied constructivist insights about international normative regimes.

ARENA Working Paper 03/1999 (html)

Jeffrey T. Checkel

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

This papers applies role conceptions as conceptual device to show how differing national identities in Britain, Germany and France lead to contrasting foreign policies in a post-Cold-War setting.

ARENA Working Paper 08/1999 (html)

Lisbeth Aggestam

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

This paper discusses the pertinence of social constructivism to the study of integration. One observation is that while constructivism offers key insights, its assumptions and methodology should not be taken as fully tailored to meet integration students' needs. Rather, constructivism is apt to further theoretical development.

ARENA Working Paper 14/1998 (html)

Jeffrey Checkel

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

This paper draws out an institutional perspective of political relations along two theoretical assumptions: (i) that identity and logic of appropriateness mitigates rational choice and (ii) that history is path-dependent and subject to fluctuating interests and institutional dynamics rather than being linear and predictable.

ARENA Working Paper 05/1998 (html)

James G. March and Johan P. Olsen

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

What are the role perceptions of national officials in EU policy-making? Drawing on extensive interview data, this paper seeks to apply key organisational and institutional insights to the EU setting.

ARENA Working Paper 24/1998 (html)

Morten Egeberg

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

What lines could be drawn between constructivism and institutionalism with regards to subject matter and theoretical assumptions? This paper presents an unusual synthesis; empirics are drawn from national officials in EU committees, with focus on role conceptions and decision-making behaviour.

ARENA Working Paper 31/1999 (html)

Jarle Trondal

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

What are the epistemological links between culture and law? This paper aims to retrace their relation, based on the weberian argument that modernity and rationalization have removed jurisdiction from its basic, cultural justification.

ARENA Working Paper 14/1997 (html)

J. Peter Burgess

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

In light of the burgeoning common currency of the EU, this paper takes a historical sweep to look at the quintessential relationship between nation-state and money, arguably an under-studied object of political history.

ARENA Working Paper 17/1997 (html)

Eric Helleiner