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
Potential Environmental Policy and Regulatory Impacts of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
It is well known that the declared objective of the planned transatlantic trade agreement is to unify the standards of the European Union and United States as much as possible by regulatory cooperation. However, an improper design of regulatory cooperation carries considerable risks for environmental protection in the EU, as environmental standards might be lowered, most specifically in a case, if the rules on harmonization would result in a ‘race to the bottom’ effect.
On a Level Playing Field: European Art and Diplomacy in Asia
This paper explores how-very much by extension-some of the rich European cultures, such as France, are influential contributors to a local and ever-growing art and culture scene in East Asia, whereas others, including the UK and German-of equal standing back home-are conspicuously quiet and, so it seems, less eager to overwhelm with foreign culture and art in their particular diplomatic strategies.
Cultural Diplomacy in the Digital Age: How Social Media Enhances Cultural Exchange between European Nations
This paper tests the potential of using social media for cultural diplomacy to engage with local audiences abroad. By adopting an institutional focus, it is researched how social media can help those who conduct cultural diplomacy, to achieve foreign cultural policy objectives.
Model Changes in Polish and Hungarian Cultural Diplomacy Throughout the Transition Period (1990-1999)
A comparative analysis of Poland and Hungary's cultural diplomacy presented here identifies similarities and differences in the development of cultural diplomacy models. In order to fully illustrate the change in the Polish and Hungarian models of cultural diplomacy, the author examines Polish Institutes and Hungarian cultural centres – Balassi Institutes – as examples.
Culture as a Public Diplomacy Tool: The Case of Czech Republic After 1993
In a broader sense, the Czech case can be seen as an example of building new public and cultural diplomacy strategies and capacities of a post-communist state. The paper addresses the topic from the perspective of cooperation and coordination of state and non-state actors (ministries, agencies, cultural institutes, etc.) in the field of cultural and public diplomacy.
The Dialogue Between the Classical Greek Heritage and the Modern European Visual Culture: Exhibitions from the Hellenic Parliament Art Collection as Cultural Diplomacy
Both these exhibitions feature works belonging to the Hellenic Parliament Art Collection in the context of a dialogue between the ancient and the modern, Greece and Europe, East and West. This dialogue helps raise public awareness of the common cultural (and therefore political) foundation on which the structure of Europe has been built.
Why Further European Integration Needs Both Eurosceptics and Europhiles
The polarizing conflict between Eurosceptics and Europhiles should help to enhance the politicization of the EU by providing political alternatives about the manner of European integration and thus fostering both the democratization of the EU and the transformation of anti-system opposition against the EU towards classical opposition within the EU.
’Supranationalization’ of CFSP – Wishful Thinking or Rational Choice to Face the ’Hybrid’ Challenges?
This contribution provides the insight of the current development of the EU institutional set-up. Recent Russian 'hybrid war' as well as the concept of 'comprehensive approach' for the crisis management stressed the absence of easy answers. Moreover, they emphasized the inter-dependence of different EU policies as well as common responsibility of the EU institutions with no place for the existing split of the EU foreign policies.
The Use of New Governance Tools in the EU’s Internal Promotion of Its Values
This contribution looks into two initiatives of the European Commission to promote European Union’s founding values internally: the EU Justice Scoreboard and the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies. In particular, it is argued that these new instruments reflect an emerging consensus on behalf of the European Commission to recourse to experimentalist governance mechanisms in values related matters where it is not fully competent to act.
The Rule of Law in the EU and the New Initiative – What Has Changed?
The paper aims to enter in a broad analysis of the different views on the rule of the law in the EU, the UN, OSCE and the Council of Europe, and to give a certain input for a new initiative in context of the rule of law debate within the EU. The paper will also try to answer the question what this new initiative specifically contains, which are its challenges, what is its goal and what the EU will gain from its materialization.
