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Rome vs. Regions: Government in Italy during COVID-19: implications for the future of the European Union (EU)
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way billions experience their immediate environments, which constitute a distributed ecosystem that has yet to be designed with nodes for planetary survival. In Italy, borders are being implicitly redrawn as lockdowns occur and travel restrictions evolve. “Borders are the scars of history,” as Robert Schumann, an architect of European construction, explained. A challenge for Italy in the European Union is to draw the lessons from history being made by COVID-19
Revisiting democracy: intersectionality, youth and the imperative of ‘Climate Justice’ – Sardinia’s ‘Europe Day’
No full textConferences can provide a platform to engage the youth in debates about the future of Europe. The Europe Day at the University of Cagliari in Sardinia focuses on themes that speak to Italy’s role in European integration. In the future, it could also deepen the understanding of the youth to the implications of climate change – and motivate young people to address these local, regional, national, European, and global concerns
The Syrian crisis: countering extremism through systemic, regional and local initiatives in Camp Rukban
No full textCamp Rukban, an internally displaced persons community, has been largely cut off from humanitarian aid since 2016 when Jordan closed the border. Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) do not enjoy the same legal rights as refugees since they remain under the jurisdiction of their own governments. The Chapter describes their plight, their living conditions, and their historical situation as well as the historical situation of Syria's refugee camps throughout history
Der Élysee-Vertrag: Dreh- und Angelpunkt der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen nach 1945?
Full text link"eEurope in action? Kosovo, ESDP, and the establishment of an internet pedagogy"
Full text linkIn its document, eEurope, the European Commission presents "a political initiative to ensure that the European Union fully benefits for generations to come from the changes the Information Society is bringing." There are three point in the eEurope document about bringing European youth into the Digital Age, Fast Internet for researchers and students and Government online that this paper addresses in the context of educational efforts to create an Internet pedagogy for conflict prevention. This paper argues that the conflict in Kosovo/a highlights the need for such a pedagogy that may serve as an indication to citizens of the potential for democratic transparency within the evolving European Security and Defense Policy. The case study presented here is a unique example of a transnational Internet seminar about Kosovo/a taught by a team of "fourth wave" educators and involving numerous practitioners
EU3-Iranian Nuclear Diplomacy: Implications for US Policy in the Middle East. EUMA Papers, Vol. 4 No. 6 March 2007
Full text link[Introduction]. Given present concerns about proliferation in the Middle East, it is useful to analyze the impact of EU3-Iranian nuclear diplomacy starting in 2002-2003 and assess its implications for US regional policy. A logical place to start is Waltz’s third image,1 the international system, which influenced the Europeans to engage Iran. In order to understand the nature of negotiations about nuclear politics, it is essential to consider that our understanding of the internal context within Iran is defined by bounded rationality. The dynamics of the 2003 agreement with Tehran provide a point of reference before considering the ways in which Iranian domestic changes impacted on the Europeans diplomatic efforts over time, including the leadership demonstrated by an influential negotiator, High Representative Javier Solana. The focus is on the Iranian decision to enrich uranium. Action taken by the Europeans as well as the United States, Russia, and China to refer Iran to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and to impose sanctions on the regime in December 2006 illustrates the limits of EU3 diplomacy. The discussion closes with a perspective on the latest step at the United Nations in terms of US regional policy as the conflict with Iraq continues
The French Rejection of the European Constitutional Treaty: Implications of a National Debate for Europe’s Union. EUMA Papers, Vol. 7 No. 13 May 2007
Full text link[Introduction]. Unlike the 1992 French debate about the ratification of the Treaty on European Union (TEU), an analysis to explain the fate of the European Constitutional Treaty (ECT) must address the failure of the May 29, 2005 referendum to ratify the text in France. Why did a member state integral to European construction reject a document in which French interests, as defined by Mr. Chirac, were very well represented? In order to assemble the pieces of this puzzle, we must start within the French domestic context in order to grapple with decisions taken at the table when the French president and other heads of government negotiated in the European Council. We must then return to the scene of the drama’s climax, inside the hexagon during spring 2005. Mr. Chirac, the chief protagonist in this narrative, provides the main link between the domestic context and negotiations on constitutional treaty reform. A careful reading of one institutional analysis regarding French preferences on the future of Europe concludes: ‘In the end, therefore, the French president and his government were for the most part alone in deciding what France’s preferences were going to be: of course, it remains to be seen whether this will change as the debate on the future of Europe moves into the ratification phase – but that is another story’.1 The pieces in our puzzle begin to come together to reveal a picture in which the ratification is the integral part of the story. This paper argues that state-society relations must be revisited to assess their relevance as an explanation of the French referendum outcome
Leadership in the European Union: Assessing the Significance of the Trio Council Presidency. Jean Monnet/Robert Schuman Paper Series Vol. 8, No. 17, August 2008
Full text link[From the Introduction]. This analysis highlights potential challenges to rotation among successive Trio Presidencies by the new European Council President in the provision of leadership that accommodates divergent interests in a Union of 27+ members. The relationship between the Trio Presidency and the proposed European Council President is one that must be defined carefully in practice. This is necessary to ensure that the balance of power does not tip to advantage the latter personality at the expense of the former. Another feature of an increasingly complex institutional system that raises questions in terms of leadership capacity is the position defined in the Lisbon Treaty as the High Representative for Security Policy and Defense. Given all the responsibilities the person in this post inherits, it is necessary to ask if leadership on behalf of the Union is realistically possible to achieve. A corollary observation is that omni directional (tous azimuts) bilateral arrangements, often referenced in the literature as 'multiple bilateralism,' occur with greater frequency in a larger Union. This analysis draws the implications of these experiences for leadership in Europe’s transnational polity
“Constructing Europe: Identity and Interests in France and Germany, 1989-99”
Full text linkThe line of inquiry taken in this paper is to apply the concept of “project identity” to assess its relevance to the social construction of Europe. In Castell’s terminology, “project identity” occurs “....when social actors, on the basis of whichever cultural materials are available to them, build a new identity that redefines their position in society and, by so doing, seek the transformation of overall social structure.” This process of constructing project identity relates to Alain Touraine’s discussion of “subjects,” a term that defines the “collective social actor through which individuals reach holistic meaning in their experience.” In this case, constructing identity may be a project which is expansive, transforming society as the prolongation of the project. The construction of identities is a matter of social context. Identity politics “must be situated historically.” Thus, this paper focuses on project identity to explore this concept in a specific context: its interaction with interests defined by France and Germany to construct Europe via significant decisions taken during the last decade
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