The Future of Sovereignty in Multilevel Governance Europe ‐ A Constructivist Reading

Aalberts, Tanja

doi:10.1111/j.0021-9886.2004.00475.x

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“…Following his line and with the constructivism turn in international relation theories, many students tend to regard the European identity as a production of social construction. This approach emphasizes communication and social learning (Checkel 2001;Christiansen and Jørgensen 2001;Aalberts 2004).…”

Section: Social-constructivism Approachmentioning

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What makes the European identity?

Fan

2008

Asia Europe J

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This paper aims to find out the factors that affect the formation of European identity, by which the author means a self-identification of individual citizens of the EU member states with this supranational entity. Following a comprehensive and critical review of the main approaches which try to explain the formation of European identity, i.e. the essentialist, rational choice, functionalist, social-psychological, social-constructivist, and neo-institutionalist approaches, the author establishes his hypothesis: what matter most in the shaping of a European identity are the factors of rational choice and institutional construction. This hypothesis is being examined with statistical analyses on the Eurobarometer Trend File Database, as well as against historical experiences.

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Section: Social-constructivism Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

What makes the European identity?

Fan

2008

Asia Europe J

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“…Although all these developments appear to pose a fundamental challenge to the sovereign state, many political science approaches continued to give analytical and ontological primacy to this entity. In particular, the study of international relations (IR) has been subjected to this line of criticism (see for example, Ashley, 1988;Caporaso, 1997;Rosenau, 1997;Brenner, 1999;Wimmer and Glick Schiller, 2002;Aalberts, 2004;Beck, 2005).…”

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State spatiality in an era of global and regional interdependence: The linkage governance approach

Buller

2015

Comp Eur Polit

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Since the 1990s, political science has been criticised for its inability to adequately theorise the role and nature of the state in an era of global interdependence. In particular, the discipline is said to have fallen into a 'territorial trap'. It is founded on a territorial conception of space that both reifies and limits debate about the state to whether it is 'obsolete' or 'obstinate' in a world where power is increasingly located in transnational functional space between countries. This article responds to this argument, providing a conception of state spatiality that stresses its contingent and variable nature. It claims that state actors can author functional transnational space by fusing together domestic and international objects into distinct 'linkage governance' (LG) strategies, although such behaviour will have unintended consequences and not always be successful. It is hoped this LG perspective will open up a more fruitful set of research questions concerning the role of the state in the fluid and dynamic world of the twenty-first century.

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“…This long-lasting debate between neofunctionalists and intergovernmentalists seemed to come to an end when, in the 1990s, scholars decided that was no longer worth debating why and how the Euro-polity had come into existence, but, once taken for granted, it was more useful looking into its governing processes. This new endeavour has since been conducted within the theoretical framework of 'multilevel governance' (Marks 1993;Jachtenfuchs 1995;Caporaso 1996;Marks et al 1996;Hooghe and Marks 2001;Jachtenfuchs 2001;Aalberts 2004;Eberlein and Kerwer 2004). This new perspective has certainly contributed to an understanding of the institutional functioning of the European Union (EU).…”

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Antonsich

2012

European Societies

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Abstract:The creation of a EUropean demos is often debated by referring to forms of ethnic or civic identities. The present article aims to expose the theoretical shortcomings of this dichotomous approach, which confines the complexity of EUrope within a simplifying methodological nationalism. By relying on empirical data collected in four different EUropean regions, the article points to the relevance of a functional or utilitarian rationale which EUropean interviewees use to justify the existence of EUrope. Although this rationale does not obliterate cultural and civic narrations of EUrope, I would argue that it invites to reconsider the traditional role played by identities in the construction of political institutions. Accordingly, I believe that scholars should take more seriously the metaphor 'EUrope as a laboratory' -a convenient, but often empty metaphor.

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The Future of Sovereignty in Multilevel Governance Europe ‐ A Constructivist Reading

Cited by 93 publications

References 71 publications

What makes the European identity?

What makes the European identity?

State spatiality in an era of global and regional interdependence: The linkage governance approach

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