International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, 2012
Citoyennetes et nationalites en Europe [Citizenships and nationalities in Europe] By Gilles Rouet... more Citoyennetes et nationalites en Europe [Citizenships and nationalities in Europe] By Gilles Rouet, Paris: LHarmattan, 2011. 270 p. ISBN 978-2-296-55797-0Top French and Polish newspapers joined together to make a common supplement on European issues; Slovak European Commissioner Maros eefcovic toured Europe to promote the European Citizens' Initiative; and Croats voted in favor of accession to the European Union by a majority As the three events show, the crisis-hit Europe is going through a change, which is not only economic. The old continent faces "crises of citizenship" as the authors of Citizenships and nationalities in Europe note. Francois Soulages says in the introduction to the book that these crises are stronger today than they were yesterday, because of a more wide-spread and faster mobility of Europeans. Why go so far? In fact, the economic problems go hand-in-hand with identity doubts, just as the necessary economic solutions require deep political reforms. The recently negotiated Treaty on stability, coordination and governance in the economic and monetary union is good proof of this.As important as the nature of the problems, is its trans-European location. Nothing reminds us better than the journeys of the editor of Citizenships and nationalities in Europe. Gilles Rouet, the French university professor, moved first from Russia to Slovakia, then to Bulgaria, where he recently organized a conference. Its output is the book before us. In it, the authors from the East and West, who write about West and East, tacitly signal to us that the East- West division has become secondary. Indeed, the book's biggest input to the debate is that the crisis of citizenship and identities is - like the economic crisis - allEuropean, uniting the "old" and the "new" Europe, and even going beyond the EU. The 14 articles do not seek to offer definitive answers or policy solutions; their academia-based authors ask disturbing questions. In doing so, they quit the borders of legal reasoning, which traditionally frames citizenship and nationality in Europe, and enter a more fitting costume: constructivism mixed with path dependency and the historical method.The 272 page voyage is lengthy - what are its most important stops? In the first part of the book (Conceive], Serge Dufoulon, anthropology professor in Grenoble, makes a useful distinction between citizenship and nationality. Whereas citizenship refers to the everyday respect of the rules of society, nationality unites around a (pseudo-jvisionary project. Dufoulon puts the two in an odd, but innovative dichotomy: while citizenship expresses an everyday "magic," nationality comes as a "religion." Where is Europe in all this? "The European Union still seems to define itself," writes Dufoulon, in a rather pessimist fashion, "by what it is not, a little bit like in the beginnings of anthropology, the great explorers defined the discovered tribes by the words of absence:" the faithless, the lawless, the hairless (41 -2). According to him, Europe remains an intellectual construction without the enthusiasm of the masses.The book's first part also includes Dufoulon's colleague from Greboble Jamil Sayah's convincing diagnosis of the crisis of the French Republican Model. The "Cult of the republic," based on liberty and equality and leaving the individual alone in a common political community without any particular communitarian links (ethnic, racial, religious], faces problems as well. It has been undermined by an incomplete integration of immigrant groups and amplified by social conflict. As a result, the French model suffers social inequalities (the poor versus the rich], territorial segregation (the banned banlieues), and the fragmentation of the society into communities (Are you French or Arab? French or Black? French or Jewish?].In its second part (Construct], the book features the remarkable article of Abel Polese. Writing about Ukraine, the University of Edinburgh's lecturer reveals how a post-modern nation is built. …
International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, 2013
Abstract:Europe will not repeat America's experience and will not witness a shale gas revolut... more Abstract:Europe will not repeat America's experience and will not witness a shale gas revolution in the short term. Extracting unconventional gas is economically less interesting, socially less acceptable - France being a typical case - and, in terms of energy security, not motivating enough, beyond countries very dependent on Russian imports such as Poland. Nevertheless, the American experience looms over Europe, with some European capitals wishing to emulate it and others wanting to avoid it. This controversy is part of a larger debate about the European Union's climate-energy strategy until 2030. The European Commission, representing the common European interest, has seized the opportunity. By the end of 2013, it wants to present new measures to better regulate the environmental impact of possible extraction. The Union should not stop here: the positive consequences in the US for the climate, economy and energy security on the one hand, and Europe's own troubled clima...
An American-style shale gas revolution will not take place in Europe on the short term as things ... more An American-style shale gas revolution will not take place in Europe on the short term as things stand at the moment. The economic profitability of the European resources is not as interesting, their social acceptability is not granted, and the energy security seems to worry only the countries extremely dependent on Russian imports like Poland. However, because of the influence of the American experience and that of some capitals who want to emulate or avoid it, the debate on its advantages and drawbacks continues to rage in Europe. It has become part of a wider discussion over the EU’s climate-energy strategy until 2030. The European Commission, which represents the common European interest, has seized the opportunity: by the end of the year it intends to put forward new measures to improve the management of the environmental impact of any potential activities. The Union should not stop here: the positive impact in the US on the economy and energy security, and the difficulties of ...
International Issues Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, 2012
Citoyennetes et nationalites en Europe [Citizenships and nationalities in Europe] By Gilles Rouet... more Citoyennetes et nationalites en Europe [Citizenships and nationalities in Europe] By Gilles Rouet, Paris: LHarmattan, 2011. 270 p. ISBN 978-2-296-55797-0Top French and Polish newspapers joined together to make a common supplement on European issues; Slovak European Commissioner Maros eefcovic toured Europe to promote the European Citizens' Initiative; and Croats voted in favor of accession to the European Union by a majority As the three events show, the crisis-hit Europe is going through a change, which is not only economic. The old continent faces "crises of citizenship" as the authors of Citizenships and nationalities in Europe note. Francois Soulages says in the introduction to the book that these crises are stronger today than they were yesterday, because of a more wide-spread and faster mobility of Europeans. Why go so far? In fact, the economic problems go hand-in-hand with identity doubts, just as the necessary economic solutions require deep political reforms. The recently negotiated Treaty on stability, coordination and governance in the economic and monetary union is good proof of this.As important as the nature of the problems, is its trans-European location. Nothing reminds us better than the journeys of the editor of Citizenships and nationalities in Europe. Gilles Rouet, the French university professor, moved first from Russia to Slovakia, then to Bulgaria, where he recently organized a conference. Its output is the book before us. In it, the authors from the East and West, who write about West and East, tacitly signal to us that the East- West division has become secondary. Indeed, the book's biggest input to the debate is that the crisis of citizenship and identities is - like the economic crisis - allEuropean, uniting the "old" and the "new" Europe, and even going beyond the EU. The 14 articles do not seek to offer definitive answers or policy solutions; their academia-based authors ask disturbing questions. In doing so, they quit the borders of legal reasoning, which traditionally frames citizenship and nationality in Europe, and enter a more fitting costume: constructivism mixed with path dependency and the historical method.The 272 page voyage is lengthy - what are its most important stops? In the first part of the book (Conceive], Serge Dufoulon, anthropology professor in Grenoble, makes a useful distinction between citizenship and nationality. Whereas citizenship refers to the everyday respect of the rules of society, nationality unites around a (pseudo-jvisionary project. Dufoulon puts the two in an odd, but innovative dichotomy: while citizenship expresses an everyday "magic," nationality comes as a "religion." Where is Europe in all this? "The European Union still seems to define itself," writes Dufoulon, in a rather pessimist fashion, "by what it is not, a little bit like in the beginnings of anthropology, the great explorers defined the discovered tribes by the words of absence:" the faithless, the lawless, the hairless (41 -2). According to him, Europe remains an intellectual construction without the enthusiasm of the masses.The book's first part also includes Dufoulon's colleague from Greboble Jamil Sayah's convincing diagnosis of the crisis of the French Republican Model. The "Cult of the republic," based on liberty and equality and leaving the individual alone in a common political community without any particular communitarian links (ethnic, racial, religious], faces problems as well. It has been undermined by an incomplete integration of immigrant groups and amplified by social conflict. As a result, the French model suffers social inequalities (the poor versus the rich], territorial segregation (the banned banlieues), and the fragmentation of the society into communities (Are you French or Arab? French or Black? French or Jewish?].In its second part (Construct], the book features the remarkable article of Abel Polese. Writing about Ukraine, the University of Edinburgh's lecturer reveals how a post-modern nation is built. …
International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, 2012
Citoyennetes et nationalites en Europe [Citizenships and nationalities in Europe] By Gilles Rouet... more Citoyennetes et nationalites en Europe [Citizenships and nationalities in Europe] By Gilles Rouet, Paris: LHarmattan, 2011. 270 p. ISBN 978-2-296-55797-0Top French and Polish newspapers joined together to make a common supplement on European issues; Slovak European Commissioner Maros eefcovic toured Europe to promote the European Citizens' Initiative; and Croats voted in favor of accession to the European Union by a majority As the three events show, the crisis-hit Europe is going through a change, which is not only economic. The old continent faces "crises of citizenship" as the authors of Citizenships and nationalities in Europe note. Francois Soulages says in the introduction to the book that these crises are stronger today than they were yesterday, because of a more wide-spread and faster mobility of Europeans. Why go so far? In fact, the economic problems go hand-in-hand with identity doubts, just as the necessary economic solutions require deep political reforms. The recently negotiated Treaty on stability, coordination and governance in the economic and monetary union is good proof of this.As important as the nature of the problems, is its trans-European location. Nothing reminds us better than the journeys of the editor of Citizenships and nationalities in Europe. Gilles Rouet, the French university professor, moved first from Russia to Slovakia, then to Bulgaria, where he recently organized a conference. Its output is the book before us. In it, the authors from the East and West, who write about West and East, tacitly signal to us that the East- West division has become secondary. Indeed, the book's biggest input to the debate is that the crisis of citizenship and identities is - like the economic crisis - allEuropean, uniting the "old" and the "new" Europe, and even going beyond the EU. The 14 articles do not seek to offer definitive answers or policy solutions; their academia-based authors ask disturbing questions. In doing so, they quit the borders of legal reasoning, which traditionally frames citizenship and nationality in Europe, and enter a more fitting costume: constructivism mixed with path dependency and the historical method.The 272 page voyage is lengthy - what are its most important stops? In the first part of the book (Conceive], Serge Dufoulon, anthropology professor in Grenoble, makes a useful distinction between citizenship and nationality. Whereas citizenship refers to the everyday respect of the rules of society, nationality unites around a (pseudo-jvisionary project. Dufoulon puts the two in an odd, but innovative dichotomy: while citizenship expresses an everyday "magic," nationality comes as a "religion." Where is Europe in all this? "The European Union still seems to define itself," writes Dufoulon, in a rather pessimist fashion, "by what it is not, a little bit like in the beginnings of anthropology, the great explorers defined the discovered tribes by the words of absence:" the faithless, the lawless, the hairless (41 -2). According to him, Europe remains an intellectual construction without the enthusiasm of the masses.The book's first part also includes Dufoulon's colleague from Greboble Jamil Sayah's convincing diagnosis of the crisis of the French Republican Model. The "Cult of the republic," based on liberty and equality and leaving the individual alone in a common political community without any particular communitarian links (ethnic, racial, religious], faces problems as well. It has been undermined by an incomplete integration of immigrant groups and amplified by social conflict. As a result, the French model suffers social inequalities (the poor versus the rich], territorial segregation (the banned banlieues), and the fragmentation of the society into communities (Are you French or Arab? French or Black? French or Jewish?].In its second part (Construct], the book features the remarkable article of Abel Polese. Writing about Ukraine, the University of Edinburgh's lecturer reveals how a post-modern nation is built. …
International Issues & Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, 2013
Abstract:Europe will not repeat America's experience and will not witness a shale gas revolut... more Abstract:Europe will not repeat America's experience and will not witness a shale gas revolution in the short term. Extracting unconventional gas is economically less interesting, socially less acceptable - France being a typical case - and, in terms of energy security, not motivating enough, beyond countries very dependent on Russian imports such as Poland. Nevertheless, the American experience looms over Europe, with some European capitals wishing to emulate it and others wanting to avoid it. This controversy is part of a larger debate about the European Union's climate-energy strategy until 2030. The European Commission, representing the common European interest, has seized the opportunity. By the end of 2013, it wants to present new measures to better regulate the environmental impact of possible extraction. The Union should not stop here: the positive consequences in the US for the climate, economy and energy security on the one hand, and Europe's own troubled clima...
An American-style shale gas revolution will not take place in Europe on the short term as things ... more An American-style shale gas revolution will not take place in Europe on the short term as things stand at the moment. The economic profitability of the European resources is not as interesting, their social acceptability is not granted, and the energy security seems to worry only the countries extremely dependent on Russian imports like Poland. However, because of the influence of the American experience and that of some capitals who want to emulate or avoid it, the debate on its advantages and drawbacks continues to rage in Europe. It has become part of a wider discussion over the EU’s climate-energy strategy until 2030. The European Commission, which represents the common European interest, has seized the opportunity: by the end of the year it intends to put forward new measures to improve the management of the environmental impact of any potential activities. The Union should not stop here: the positive impact in the US on the economy and energy security, and the difficulties of ...
International Issues Slovak Foreign Policy Affairs, 2012
Citoyennetes et nationalites en Europe [Citizenships and nationalities in Europe] By Gilles Rouet... more Citoyennetes et nationalites en Europe [Citizenships and nationalities in Europe] By Gilles Rouet, Paris: LHarmattan, 2011. 270 p. ISBN 978-2-296-55797-0Top French and Polish newspapers joined together to make a common supplement on European issues; Slovak European Commissioner Maros eefcovic toured Europe to promote the European Citizens' Initiative; and Croats voted in favor of accession to the European Union by a majority As the three events show, the crisis-hit Europe is going through a change, which is not only economic. The old continent faces "crises of citizenship" as the authors of Citizenships and nationalities in Europe note. Francois Soulages says in the introduction to the book that these crises are stronger today than they were yesterday, because of a more wide-spread and faster mobility of Europeans. Why go so far? In fact, the economic problems go hand-in-hand with identity doubts, just as the necessary economic solutions require deep political reforms. The recently negotiated Treaty on stability, coordination and governance in the economic and monetary union is good proof of this.As important as the nature of the problems, is its trans-European location. Nothing reminds us better than the journeys of the editor of Citizenships and nationalities in Europe. Gilles Rouet, the French university professor, moved first from Russia to Slovakia, then to Bulgaria, where he recently organized a conference. Its output is the book before us. In it, the authors from the East and West, who write about West and East, tacitly signal to us that the East- West division has become secondary. Indeed, the book's biggest input to the debate is that the crisis of citizenship and identities is - like the economic crisis - allEuropean, uniting the "old" and the "new" Europe, and even going beyond the EU. The 14 articles do not seek to offer definitive answers or policy solutions; their academia-based authors ask disturbing questions. In doing so, they quit the borders of legal reasoning, which traditionally frames citizenship and nationality in Europe, and enter a more fitting costume: constructivism mixed with path dependency and the historical method.The 272 page voyage is lengthy - what are its most important stops? In the first part of the book (Conceive], Serge Dufoulon, anthropology professor in Grenoble, makes a useful distinction between citizenship and nationality. Whereas citizenship refers to the everyday respect of the rules of society, nationality unites around a (pseudo-jvisionary project. Dufoulon puts the two in an odd, but innovative dichotomy: while citizenship expresses an everyday "magic," nationality comes as a "religion." Where is Europe in all this? "The European Union still seems to define itself," writes Dufoulon, in a rather pessimist fashion, "by what it is not, a little bit like in the beginnings of anthropology, the great explorers defined the discovered tribes by the words of absence:" the faithless, the lawless, the hairless (41 -2). According to him, Europe remains an intellectual construction without the enthusiasm of the masses.The book's first part also includes Dufoulon's colleague from Greboble Jamil Sayah's convincing diagnosis of the crisis of the French Republican Model. The "Cult of the republic," based on liberty and equality and leaving the individual alone in a common political community without any particular communitarian links (ethnic, racial, religious], faces problems as well. It has been undermined by an incomplete integration of immigrant groups and amplified by social conflict. As a result, the French model suffers social inequalities (the poor versus the rich], territorial segregation (the banned banlieues), and the fragmentation of the society into communities (Are you French or Arab? French or Black? French or Jewish?].In its second part (Construct], the book features the remarkable article of Abel Polese. Writing about Ukraine, the University of Edinburgh's lecturer reveals how a post-modern nation is built. …
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