Euroacademia Conferences
Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (9th Edition)April 24 - 25, 2020
Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (9th Edition)June 12 - 13, 2020
8th Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions AgainJanuary 24 - 25, 2020
Re-Inventing Eastern Europe (7th Edition)December 13 - 14, 2019
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (8th Edition)October 25 - 26, 2019
Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (8th Edition)June 28 - 29, 2019
The European Union and the Politicization of Europe (7th Edition)January 25 - 26, 2019- 7th Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions AgainNovember 23 - 24, 2018
Europe Inside-Out: Europe and Europeanness Exposed to Plural Observers (8th Edition)September 28 - 30, 2018- Identities and Identifications: Politicized Uses of Collective Identities (7th Edition)June 14 - 15, 2018
Papers
The Effects of ECB’s Asset Purchase Announcements on National Government Bond Yields
This study evaluates the effects of ECB’s asset purchase announcements on 10-year government bond yields. It covers data from 11 euro zone countries from 01/01/2007 to 31/08/2017 and distinguishes between more solvent countries (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands) and less solvent ones (Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain).Do Bail-out and Bail-in Events Fuel Cyclicity of Financial Crisis: Empirical Assessment Using Hordrick Prescott Filter from 1993 to 2012
To curb the problem of liquidity in times of financial crises, two cases arise; the Bailout or Bailin, two opposite choices that elicit the analysis of their effect on moral hazard. This paper attempts to empirically analyze the effect of these two types of events on investor’s behavior. We use the Emerging Market Bonds Index (EMBI-JP Morgan), and its excess of return, to detect the change in the risk premia through Hordrick Prescott filter. The results showed the existence of cyclical trends of financial crisis fueled by bail-out and bail-in events.Germany’s Ambivalent Policy Towards the Economic Problems of the Euro Area in the Light of Constructivist Theory
This paper aspires to contribute to the discussion about the following hypotheses: H1. Germany, through the process of Europeanization, delegates the principles of ordoliberalism to supranational level, determining the behaviours of the euro area states (institutionalisation as a constraining process). Thus, ordoliberal rigorous rules of stability, become a feature of multiple identity of states. H2. German ordoliberal strategy is a normative, microeconomic theory, that has contributed to the Germany’s stability and it’s economic efficiency. On the other hand, the fixity of its rules led to a deepening of the euro zone crisis, increasing the cost of European cooperation.Scramble for (EU)rope. The Migrant Crisis or The Crisis of Migrant: Europe on The Borders of Europe
The migrant crisis is not just a consequence of a bad policy in Europe, it is the very indicator of always-already non-existent European sovereignty. A cause and a consequence, the cause of a consequence, a cause after a consequence. The cause caused by a consequence of Europe on the borders of Europe.Fake Europeanization of Elites and Failed Europeanization of the Massesss
While the processes of identity making intrinsic to the creation of nation states produced a homogenizing move that propelled the created other outside its borders, the EU identity making frames internal hierarchies accommodating an internal other trough a persisting wide and growing set of dichotomies: core Europe/non-Core Europe, new Europe/old Europe, pioneers/followers, centre/periphery, cosmos/chaos. The proliferation of such dichotomies expresses the widespread though most often gratuitous European scepticism in the complementarity between wider and deeper integration.The Europeanization of Balkans
Oversimplifying the Europeanization process looking for culprits instead of being attentive to real issues on the ground, is a dead end road serving none, either Europe or the Balkans as a region. The Balkan accession candidate countries are unfortunately, stuck in a complex and heavy Europeanization process and agenda with with two sign poles marking the course: blatant EU intervention and an absent political economy mechanism on the ground in the accession candidate countries that will allow local actors to ring about the needed reforms and drastic changes. Realities on the slippery ground of the Balkans and high value attached to bringing the Europeanization process to fruition for the EU ensure that the drawn out process of accession will continue but an intelligent alternative remains to be urgently invented for both partners reach their port of call soon.Politicizing Europe: Normative Conditionality in the EU Institutions’ Interpretations of Europe(-anness)
Building on an analysis of institutional documents, the paper investigates how the notions of “Europe” and “Europeanness” have been interpreted since the inception of the EU and, in fine, politicized through the implementation of normative conditions. This analysis eventually led to a new, up-to-date model of the conditions that a State has to meet to be considered “European”, which further highlights the institutional conceptualization of Europe(-anness).Reassessing Turkey’s European Union Candidacy: The Case of EU-Turkey Refugee Deal
In this paper, I focus on Turkey-EU Refugee Deal as a case of study. First I discuss this process through the lens of the EU enlargement theories and test their recently developed assumptions particularly after 2009 Eurocrisis. Secondly, I delve into the question of why and how Turkey’s domestic problems lead to a Eurosceptic membership perspective.The Nostalgia of the Empire: Neo-Ottomanism, Euro-skepticism and Desecularized Nationalism in Contemporary Turkey
The case of Turkey and its ruling party, the AKP, is in this perspective enlightening. All too often reduced to a “shift from pluralism to Islamic populism”, the recent events in the country testify less of a shift, than of the reframing of a long tradition of negation and containment of social antagonisms.A Critical Analysis of the EU-Turkey Deal on Irregular Migration: Is the EU a Successful ‘Norm Entrepreneur’?
The aim of the presentation is to critically re-evaluate the EU’s international identity claims in the light of the readmission regime put into effect by the EU-Turkey Deal. The paper argues that the EU-Turkey deal on refugees has far-reaching implications for the EU’s international identity as the outcome of this initiative has a critical impact on whether the EU represents a successful ‘norm-entrepreneur’.
