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
A Realist Approach to the European Neighbourhood Policy: The Case of Russian Intervention in Ukraine
This paper argues that although the ENP has been an effective policy in providing a peaceful environment around Europe, implementation of its instruments should take into account the priorities of and respect to the vital interests of other major actors in the related regions.
The European Union as an Unidentified Political Object? The International Player in Search of a Strategic Culture
How are we able to recognize a certain actor or player when we see it? And more important, how these characteristics distinguish the EU from other actors in the international system?
In Search of a Role for the High Representative: The Legacy of Catherine Ashton
The analysis examines the main themes of Ashton’s role performance in her five years in office(including among others the set-up of the European External Action Service, crisis management, Iran and Ukraine)and matches them against four role expectations: co-leader, broker, manager and diplomat.
How Enlightened is the European Despotism? The Persistence of the Democratic Deficit in the European Union
There is a wide variety of denominators for the EU in addressing its political structures of decision making and its inherent democratic deficit features, and yet there is still room for conceptual innovation. The democratic problem or the democratic deficit issue was and continues to be one of the main challenges facing the European Union in any terms or from any position is understood or described.
Failure of the Common European Migration and Asylum Policy and the EU’s Democratic Legitimacy: The Member States Left Holding the Sack!?
Our research aims to unfold the problem of the EU’s democratic legitimacy by analyzing the developments in its Common Migration and Asylum Policy, which by the civil society, and NGOs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch is held accountable for the recent tragedies in the Mediterranean Sea, at the island of Lampedusa and Malta.
Interest Representation: Can Lobbying Regulation Help EU Overcome Democratic Deficit?
Recent elections to the European Parliament has raised the question of interest groups involvement in the electoral process. But there is no clear data on their, in contrast to other political actors, influence on the outcome of elections as well as the level of democratic legitimacy.
The Issue of Democratic Deficit and the Idea of a Common European Ethos
The paper then dwells on the idea of a common ethos and elucidates it as part of human collective identifications and relates it to substance rather than procedure. It concludes with the argument that the so-called democratic deficit of the EU cannot be explained with reference to the absence of a common European ethos.
The Unintended Consequences of Intergovernamentalism: ECB and Institutional Change in the Eurocrisis
The paper stems from the analysis of the limits of intergovernamentalism identified by Fabbrini (2013), arguing that the ECB gained further powers being the only European institution able to bypass those limits.
The European Union: Politicisation of Europe?
The paper recurs to semiotic analysis and interpretation of facts and developments as signs and in doing so extrapolates an earlier paper under the title of "semioses regarding politics and economy“, in its days early predicting and explaining the roots of the financial crash of 2008 into present and future.
The Eurozone Crisis and the European Union’s Multiple Identity Crises
This paper argues that there multiple and distinct, yet interrelated ways of interpreting the current identity crisis of the EU. This paper focuses on four particular kinds of crisis.
