S. Neuman-Stanivukovic

Re ecting a subtle but profound shift in recent Canadian foreign policy priorities, the tsunami ... more Re ecting a subtle but profound shift in recent Canadian foreign policy priorities, the tsunami of last year, the chaos in Haiti, the exploding troubles in Sudan are not foreign-aid issues for Canada, they are foreign-policy priorities. They re ect our demography transformation from predominantly European to truly multinational. Problems in India and China and Haiti are our problems because India and China are our motherlands.

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Hrvatska i Europska unija: prednosti i izazovi članstva

The book tries to answer the questions on what are the advantages, possible disadvantages or the ... 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.

Europeanisation of citizenship in the context of EU accession

East/West Trajectory in the Commission's Communication Strategy on Enlargement

Domestic Preference Formation in the Czech Republic vis-a-vis the EU's Foreign and Regional Policy

5th ECPR Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Jun 25, 2010

Conclusion: The Relevance of Normative Power in a Changing Europe

Democracy Promotion and the Normative Power Europe Framework, 2018

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Croatia as the 28th EU Member State

Europeanization as Discursive Practice: Constructing Territoriality in Central Europe and the Western Balkans

Europeanization as Discursive Practice adopts a poststructuralist reading of Europeanization to s... 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.

Can Croatia's new president bring his country closer to the EU

Framing the Normative Paradox: The Democratization Aspect in the European Union's Relations with its Neighbourhood

Europeanization : A Poststructuralist Approach

This dissertation begins from the hypothesis that the direction and extent of Europeanization dep... 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...