- Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
The book tries to answer the questions on what are the advantages, possible disadvantages or the key challenges of membership in the EU. In addition to the main negotiation chapters, other issues which will mostly affect the life and work... more
The book tries to answer the questions on what are the advantages, possible disadvantages or the key challenges of membership in the EU. In addition to the main negotiation chapters, other issues which will mostly affect the life and work of Croatian citizens are also discussed. During the implementation of this project the research team was led by often emphasized need to present the complex effects of EU membership in a simple and accessible way to citizens. Therefore, key advantages and challenges of the EU membership are summarised at the end of each chapter. The challenges stated in this book are not and should not pose an obstacle for future successful development of the Republic of Croatia. The publication, edited by Sanja Tisma, Visnja Samardžija and Kresimir Jurlin, is the result of work of IRMO’s scientists and external experts, experts in particular areas. Foreword to the book was written by Ambassador Paul Vandoren, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Croatia and the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia, Ms. Vesna Pusic.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Commission and Resizing
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Europeanization as Discursive Practice adopts a poststructuralist reading of Europeanization to study the effects of EU accession in the light of political territoriality and consequent state-building processes in the EU and Central and... more
Europeanization as Discursive Practice adopts a poststructuralist reading of Europeanization to study the effects of EU accession in the light of political territoriality and consequent state-building processes in the EU and Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) and the Western Balkans, from 1990-2013. Focusing on how domestic actors have framed Europe/EU norms in the debates on territorial reforms and the implications of this framing on policy reforms, it asks how competing articulations of the EU and its norms construct state territoriality in the given political and policy debates. The book argues that the European Union acted as a discursive force and a challenge to the established structures of understanding of territoriality, statehood, and power. With this, the author proposes a new research model for the study of Europeanization that goes beyond the neo-institutionalist account of the EU's policy/norm transfer to member/non-member states.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
This dissertation begins from the hypothesis that the direction and extent of Europeanization depends on domestic perception of the European Union and its norms. Accordingly, it was my empirical ambition to study how competing... more
This dissertation begins from the hypothesis that the direction and extent of Europeanization depends on domestic perception of the European Union and its norms. Accordingly, it was my empirical ambition to study how competing articulations of the EU and its norms constructed debates in EU member and candidate countries. I have pled for greater meta-theoretical awareness in Europeanization scholarship, accompanied by a shift in the ontological reading of underlying questions about the meaning and content of Europeanization. The result of the established theoretical and empirical considerations was a novel framework for the study of Europeanization embedded in poststructuralism. Poststructuralism rests on a dual ontological foundation. The first premise maintains reality’s discursivity. This suggests that social identities, albeit materially grounded, do not exist outside of language. The second premise rejects the existence of structural totality in view of mutual constitutivness of...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
This chapter examines the ability of the Normative Power Europe (NPE) research agenda to respond to the increasingly visible complexity of the EU’s involvement in South Eastern Europe. Drawing from Deleuze and Guattari and assemblage... more
This chapter examines the ability of the Normative Power Europe (NPE) research agenda to respond to the increasingly visible complexity of the EU’s involvement in South Eastern Europe. Drawing from Deleuze and Guattari and assemblage thinking, the chapter opens a discussion on the ontologies of Europe and power within NPE literature. Accordingly, it reconceptualizes Europe as a networked power in view of the fluid and relational nature of normative structures that are created by European integration. It concludes that such an approach enables one to problematize also diffused, contingent, material, technocratized, and habitualized connectivities within the scope of NPE research.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
This article addresses contemporary thinking about EU crises from the locations of South-East and Eastern Europe. It asks how the European migration and security ‘crises’ have unfolded in institutional structures, political and public... more
This article addresses contemporary thinking about EU crises from the locations of South-East and Eastern Europe. It asks how the European migration and security ‘crises’ have unfolded in institutional structures, political and public discourses, and people’s everyday experiences in South-Eastern and Eastern Europe. The analysis challenges the treatment of European crises as ontologically given, and calls for the adoption of critical conceptual and analytical approaches that study these crises outside European dis/order binarism. It exposes European crises as a privileged and conservative designation that normalizes European multiplicity within the teleology of a linear and spatially bound EU institutional order.