Rethinking Europe's Future

Underlying scholarship on the EU is the conviction that the institutions of the EU are the outcome of a historical process whereby national institutions are being superseded and replaced by supranational ones. The article criticizes this tendency, for two reasons. First, it argues that the progressive conception has led to the story of the EU being told in over-simplified and unhistorical ways. Second, it suggests that the progressive conception has blinded authors to the possibility that alternative narratives of European integration are possible and that these may come to predominate if the European project loses its aura of success. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author(s). Journal compilation (c) 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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“….] give political lessons to others’ (Calleo, 2001, p. 373; see also Padoa‐Schioppa 2001, pp. 163–79, for the same basic argument)?…”

Section: Changing Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Narrating the Process: Questioning the Progressive Story of European Integration*

Gilbert

2008

J of Common Market Studies

118

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“…The evolution of SNS policy prefigures the shift of territorial management towards governance (Commission of the European Communities 2001; Hergenhan 2001;Adger et al 2003;Delreux 2006) for two reasons: firstly because as shown and used in the Natura 2000 network, the rule in ecological management is now to introduce territorial development, in economic, social and political terms; and secondly because, as said by Hergenhan (2001), ''the concept of governance goes beyond that of traditional government, in particular since it involves nongovernmental players (such as ''civil society'') and Sub-State entities (local authorities, cities and municipalities, etc.)''. This shift is well observed by Calleo (2001) who says that Europe is going to be ''a genuinely new political form'' and ''should become an efficacious example of variable geometry on a global scale''. What holds for Europe as a whole can be applied to local organisation where we may see the development of new relations between the citizens and their environment and as a consequence new relations between the citizens themselves.…”

Section: Different Uses Of Dtsnsmentioning

confidence: 85%

Environmental conservation and the production of new territories: the example of French départements

et al. 2009

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International audienceVery important initiatives have been taken and policies have been adopted in the European Union to protect areas of great importance for threatened species and habitats. Protected areas differ broadly in terms of category, natural conditions and administrative organisation, from international initiative such as Biosphere Reserves, European ones with Natura 2000 network until the institution of national and regional protected areas. In France, the administrative subdivisions known as “départements” were created with the French Revolution in the end of the 18th century; in 1985 an original and autonomous procedure to establish special protected areas, called “Sensitive Natural Spaces” (SNS) was devolved to them. The scope of this paper is to present an overview of these devolved powers which enable French départements to create protected areas and to levy a departmental tax on sensitive natural spaces (DTSNS). We statistically studied some parameters by multivariate methods in order to explain the choices of this policy by the départements. The huge variations in the way these powers are implemented prove the development of new environmental territories

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“…6 President Trump is enhancing an underlying tension between Europe's communitarian and pluralist outlook on the one hand and America's unipolar and Hobbesian outlook on the other. 7 Keeping this impulse of antagonism at bay was always a supreme challenge of Atlanticism, but Trump's presidency might be more than traditional Atlanticists can handle, and in fact, it may have been President Trump's design all along that the United States should pull out of NATO. 8 Yet Atlanticism may not be a spent force.…”

Section: Sustaining Nato By Consultation: Hard Choices For Europementioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining NATO by consultation: hard choices for Europe

Rynning

2019

J Transatl Stud

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NATO allies have since the inception of the alliance sought to establish an Atlanticist habit of political consultation to prevent political go-it-alone drift on the part of key allies and help define NATO in regard to major strategic issues. Today, observers dispute the ability of Atlanticism to sustain the Alliance. This article reviews the history and current politics of Atlanticist consultations to assess the conditions under which consultations are most likely to serve as a force of alliance continuity. The article argues that European allies have become accustomed to an incremental Atlanticist approach that no longer serves them well. Reviewing Atlanticist history, the article suggests how Europe can leap forward to revive the tradition of consultations. It involves a balancing act for Europe between on the one hand expanded power to manage global issues such as the rise of China and on the other limited ambitions of strategic autonomy. NATO's future ability to sustain itself by political consultations, the article argues, is hostage to this balancing act and the support accorded to it by all allies.

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Rethinking Europe's Future

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Narrating the Process: Questioning the Progressive Story of European Integration*

Narrating the Process: Questioning the Progressive Story of European Integration*

Environmental conservation and the production of new territories: the example of French départements

Sustaining NATO by consultation: hard choices for Europe

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