Webpages tagged with «ideas»

Published Dec. 6, 2011 11:46 AM

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

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

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

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

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

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

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

Published Nov. 9, 2010 10:52 AM

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