Introduction: Below Peace Agreements: Everyday Nationalism or Everyday Peace?

Kostovicova, Denisa; Sokolić, Ivor; Fridman, Orli

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“…Methodologically, this implies, first, a focus on ordinary people rather than on elites or official discourses (Fox & Miller‐Idriss, 2008, pp. 537–540; Goode & Stroup, 2015, p. 718; Kostovicova et al, 2020). My focus on European citizens thus marks an important difference to earlier studies of national meaning structures in the EU (e.g., Díez‐Medrano, 2003; Killingsworth et al, 2010).…”

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Social model or neoliberal champion? Economic visions of the European demos among EU citizens

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2022

Nations and Nationalism

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Theories of economic nationalism have shown that identities can be constructed around various economic discourses. Yet, much of the literature focuses on official discourses while empirical tests on the citizen level are short in supply. The debate about the European demos exemplifies this shortcoming as EU institutions construct two competing visions of a European identity around economic issues. The European economy is depicted as a neoliberal competitor or as an economic space characterised by a social model. This paper investigates which of these two official visions EU citizens subscribe to. Based on 18 focus group interviews in France, Germany and Poland, I argue that citizens only share a conception of a European social model while a marriage of neoliberalism and nationalism can be detected for national economies. These findings highlight the importance of studying everyday nationhood, as not all official visions can be expected to resonate with citizens. Studies of discursive identity formation cannot only focus on official discourse, but should be flanked by investigations on the citizen level.

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Social model or neoliberal champion? Economic visions of the European demos among EU citizens

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Securitising the Present through the Prism of the Past: State-Building and the Legacy of Interventions in Kosovo and Serbia

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2022

Comparative Southeast European Studies

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In this article, the author argues that political actors in Kosovo and Serbia, together with international actors from the UN, NATO, and the EU, have developed strategies of political communication in which the threat or promise of external intervention in Southeast European processes of state-building and state consolidation have been deeply inscribed. Based on a critical security studies theoretical framework, especially pragmatist securitisation, the author illustrates such “securitised state-building” with speech acts on interethnic violence, the Kosovo army, and NATO intervention commemorations. While securitised language does not necessarily lead to violence, actors with communicative strategies of segregation, confrontation, and even violence have proven more likely to be favoured by the governing mode of “securitised state-building”. Such a mode thereby may shape regional processes of de- and re-territorialisation in the future, too.

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Introduction: Below Peace Agreements: Everyday Nationalism or Everyday Peace?

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Social model or neoliberal champion? Economic visions of the European demos among EU citizens

Social model or neoliberal champion? Economic visions of the European demos among EU citizens

Securitising the Present through the Prism of the Past: State-Building and the Legacy of Interventions in Kosovo and Serbia

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