L'Académie européenne

Abstract

Résumé L’article pose les jalons d’une sociologie politique des « études européennes », entendues comme un ensemble d’entreprises académiques portant sur, forgés avec et pour, les acteurs politiques et institutionnels européens. L’analyse des conditions de genèse de cet espace universitaire transnational montre que les premières théories de l’intégration européenne naissent d’un champ réformateur européen où se construisent conjointement les cadres d’entendement communs de l’Europe naissante. Loin d’être un phénomène transitoire dans un processus long d’autonomisation réciproque d’une « politique » et de « savoirs » sur le mode des espaces nationaux, cette indifférenciation initiale demeure une caractéristique centrale – bien que renouvelée dans ses formes – du gouvernement de l’Union européenne.

Who was saving whom? The European Community and the Cold War, 1960s–1970s

“…Still, these and similar interventions were part of the surge to define the EC’s position in the world more precisely, while also summarising and legitimising the Community’s growing international aspiration, as a Bourdieusian re-reading of these texts reveals. They co-constructed European integration by shaping the forms of knowledge and ways of reasoning that legitimise European policies (on such an approach to EU studies, see Robert and Vauchez, 2010; see also Bourdieu, 1986; Georgakakis, 2009). These efforts thus furthered the synecdochic quality of European integration, adding meaning and legitimacy to the EC while also strengthening its claim that it fully represented Europe.…”

Integration by Interpellation: The European Capitals of Culture and the Role of Experts in European Union Cultural Policies

“…The study of such coalitions reveals the porous nature of the boundaries between formal decision‐making and expertise, and it demonstrates that they are mutually interdependent. Actors of variegated types negotiate not only over concrete legal instruments, but also over the forms of knowledge and the ways of reasoning that legitimize European policies (Robert and Vauchez, ).…”

Fall and Rise: Normativity in Political Science Writing on the EU

“…Though a large EUS literature considers normativity in public, elite and official discourse, few works reflexively examine it in the writing of political scientists themselves, including in EUS. Several historians and legal scholars of the EU identify strong pro‐European political agendas in their fields, but focus heavily on early scholarship (Robert and Vauchez, , pp. 15–16; Varsori, , p. 6).…”