Europe in the emerging world order : searching for a new paradigm
Europe in the emerging world order : searching for a new paradigm
Author(s): Jovan Babić , Petar Bojanić, Gazela Pudar Draško
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Politics and Identity
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: Europe; world order; new paradigm; International relations; European integration; Political identity
Summary/Abstract: Although a unique historical and geopolitical project, the European Union as an institution finds itself searching for itself. On the one hand, it is attempting to be a progressive role model to the rest of the world, while on the other, it is struggling with identity, national and other questions. This collection presents the challenges faced by Europe at the moment when it must “choose” whether it will be a kind of civic superpower or remain a collection of states bound by bureaucracy in Brussels. The authors of the texts offer models for overcoming present problems faced by Europe, expound a criticism of neoliberalism, and contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of basic European values, such as liberalism and cosmopolitanism.
- Print-ISBN-13: 978-86-82417-30-9
- Page Count: 234
- Publication Year: 2011
- Language: English
Europe in the Emerging World Order
Europe in the Emerging World Order
(Europe in the Emerging World Order)
- Author(s):Filip Golub
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Politics and Identity
- Page Range:1-12
- No. of Pages:12
- Keywords:Globalisation; Regionalisation; Federalism; Nationalism
- Summary/Abstract:In the aftermath of the Cold War, European Unification seemed to hold the promise of making the continent into a civil superpower – an attractive model of interstate cooperation, interdependence, social cohesion and democratic governance. Twenty years later, these forward looking assumptions have been disconfirmed by sharpening national fragmentation, exclusionary immigration policies, intolerance towards ethnic and religious minorities, and a persistent democratic deficit. Brought into sharp focus by the world economic crisis, this set of problems result in a diminishing voice for Europe in world affairs.
On Four Visions of the Future Prospects of Capitalism, Society, and the European Model
On Four Visions of the Future Prospects of Capitalism, Society, and the European Model
(On Four Visions of the Future Prospects of Capitalism, Society, and the European Model)
- Author(s):Peter Klepec
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History of European Union, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
- Page Range:13-32
- No. of Pages:20
L’identite europeenne en tant que processus
L’identite europeenne en tant que processus
(European identity as a process)
- Author(s):Christoph Hubig
- Language:French
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History of European Union, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Politics and Identity
- Page Range:33-44
- No. of Pages:12
Europe: Cape Of Deconstruction
Europe: Cape Of Deconstruction
(Europe: Cape Of Deconstruction)
- Author(s):Alfred Hirsch
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History of European Union, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
- Page Range:45-62
- No. of Pages:18
- Summary/Abstract:Europe’s formation is to be seen as a differential process, affected by heterogeneity. The consistent “cape” (caput) which Europe aims at resembling, is accompanied by “another cape”, a foreignness and disparity that still extends into the European models (and it is important to use the plural form here) and excites a constant reformation. This “other cape”, or in Derrida’s words, the “other of the cape” has to be viewed as an ineffable and placeless cape that make life difficult for the maritime navigators and captains. They suddenly emerge and disappear just as fast again, without leaving any trace. This other cape has always been constitutive for Europe, as we call it. We have to think about Europe’s future, about its cultures, civilisations and political institutions from here onwards.
Europe – From Warfare to Cosmopolitan Justice?
Europe – From Warfare to Cosmopolitan Justice?
(Europe – From Warfare to Cosmopolitan Justice?)
- Author(s):Vojin Rakić
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History of European Union, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Politics and Identity
- Page Range:63-78
- No. of Pages:16
- Keywords:Moral identity; Europe; war; peace; cosmopolitanism; normative will; inclusiveness
- Summary/Abstract:It will be argued that the values of liberalism and peace are essential elements of the moral identity of Europe. The link between this identity and cosmopolitanism will be established. In addition to that, I will assert the moral superiority of cosmopolitanism vis-à-vis its alternatives, using the concept of the “normative will”. The primary conclusion will be that a pre-condition for the preservation of the moral identity of Europe is a redefinition of the concept of “being European” in the direction of increasing cultural inclusiveness.
Disciplining The Labour Market In Europe: The Emerging Normative Neoliberal Order
Disciplining The Labour Market In Europe: The Emerging Normative Neoliberal Order
(Disciplining The Labour Market In Europe: The Emerging Normative Neoliberal Order)
- Author(s):Noëlle Burgi
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History of European Union, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development
- Page Range:79-92
- No. of Pages:14
- Summary/Abstract:The social states developed in western Europe after the Second World War promoted economic development under conditions of relative social equity, becoming a foundational component of post-war collective identity. In recent decades however, there has been a gradual erosion of social protections and rights, reflecting the spread of neoliberal principles first articulated by the “conservative revolution” in the US and UK. Amplified but not caused by structural transformations of the world economy, there has been a marked shift from social solidarity to generalised competition. On a European level, the Commission has played a major role in the emergence of a new governmentality. As Foucault presciently pointed out (1979), neoliberal public policies refocused on disciplining labour, curbing dissent, submitting and regularising society, seen not as a community with a common destiny but as a collection of elementary particles. In the emerging normative neoliberal order, the resulting social anomie has led to greater state autonomy and generated the temptation for authoritarian managerialism from on top.
Documentality, or Europe
Documentality, or Europe
(Documentality, or Europe)
- Author(s):Maurizio Ferraris
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History of European Union, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Politics and Identity
- Page Range:93-127
- No. of Pages:35
Beyond Recognition Europe and the Occident in the “Post-Hobbesian” (Dis)Order
Beyond Recognition Europe and the Occident in the “Post-Hobbesian” (Dis)Order
(Beyond Recognition Europe and the Occident in the “Post-Hobbesian” (Dis)Order)
- Author(s):Giacomo Marramao
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History of European Union, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Politics and Identity
- Page Range:128-151
- No. of Pages:24
- Summary/Abstract:In introducing his argument – which resumes and develops the philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of globalisation advanced in his book Westward Passage (forthcoming by Verso, London-New York) – Giacomo Marramao takes the film Babel, by the Mexican director Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu, as the point of departure for his discussion: the film depicts the globalised world as a complex space, at once interdependent and differentiated in character, constituted like a mosaic, composed of a multiplicity of “asynchronic” ways and forms of life which are brought together by the manifold flux of events that traverse them. This cinematographic depiction perfectly captures the disconcerting bi-logic of globalisation: the logic through which the mix of the global market and of digital technologies operating in “real time” generates an increasing diaspora of identities. The Babel of our contemporary world thereby reveals itself as a kind of planetary extension of the world of Kakania described by Robert Musil: a cacophonous compendium of proliferating and mutually untranslatable languages. In order to conceptualise, and produce a suitably fluid and dynamic account, of this new “world picture,” we must not only dissolve the spurious dilemma between universalism and relativism, but move beyond the current impasse encouraged by a normative political philosophy which tends to reify “cultural identities” and “struggles for recognition” by treating these as givens rather than as problems. The philosophical approach pursued in the following discussion attempts to liberate the concept of “the universal” – despite the etymology of the word – from the logic of the reductio ad unum, and apply it instead to the realm of multiplicity and difference. Developing a double phenomenology of the increasingly homogenising phenomenon of the market on the one hand, and of the internally conflicted pandemic of identitarian and communitarian approaches on the other, the author indicates a variety of universalising tendencies whose potential can only fully be evaluated in the context of a new theory and practice of translation. Marramao’s proposal for a universalism of difference is predicated on the failure of the two principal models of “democratic” inclusion that have previously been attempted in the West: the republican or assimilationist model (the “République model” that is founded upon what could be called a universalism of indifference) and the “strong” multiculturalism model (the so-called “Londonistan model” that derives from a mosaic of differences that also provides fertile ground for the growth of fundamentalist ideas). But the advancement beyond the antagonistic complicity generated by this dilemma calls for a re-enchantment of the political: the only way in which we may be able to read the prognostic signs of our present.
The EU and Southeastern Europe: the Rise of Post-Liberal Governance
The EU and Southeastern Europe: the Rise of Post-Liberal Governance
(The EU and Southeastern Europe: the Rise of Post-Liberal Governance)
- Author(s):David Chandler
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History of European Union, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Politics and Identity
- Page Range:152-179
- No. of Pages:28
- Summary/Abstract:This article suggests that EU governance in South-eastern Europe reproduces a discourse in which the failures and problems which have emerged, especially in relation to the pace of integration and the sustainability of peace in candidate member states such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, have merely reinforced the EU’s external governance agenda. On the one hand, the limitations of reform have reinforced the EU’s projection of its power as a civilising mission into what is perceived to be a dangerous vacuum in the region. On the other hand, through the discourse of post-liberal governance, the EU seeks to avoid the direct political responsibilities associated with this power. Rather than legitimise policy-making on the basis of representative legitimacy, post-liberal frameworks of governance problematise autonomy and self-government, inverting the liberal paradigm through establishing administrative and regulative frameworks as prior to democratic choices. This process tends to distance policy-making from representative accountability weakening the legitimacy of governing institutions in Southeastern European states which have international legal sovereignty but lack genuine mechanisms for politically integrating society.
Serbia on the Way to the European Union
Serbia on the Way to the European Union
(Serbia on the Way to the European Union)
- Author(s):Graham Avery
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History of European Union, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, EU-Legislation
- Page Range:180-182
- No. of Pages:3
The Russian European as Russia’s Objective
The Russian European as Russia’s Objective
(The Russian European as Russia’s Objective)
- Author(s):Vladimir Kantor
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Security and defense, Geopolitics
- Page Range:183-201
- No. of Pages:19
The Dawning Consciousness of a Common Predicament: Promoter of European Identity in the 20th C. – Dimitrije Mitrinović
The Dawning Consciousness of a Common Predicament: Promoter of European Identity in the 20th C. – Dimitrije Mitrinović
(The Dawning Consciousness of a Common Predicament: Promoter of European Identity in the 20th C. – Dimitrije Mitrinović)
- Author(s):Dušan Pajin
- Language:English
- Subject(s):Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History of European Union, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Politics and Identity
- Page Range:202-218
- No. of Pages:17
- Summary/Abstract:This is a resume of ideas and actions of Dimitrije Mitrinovic (1887-1953), who devoted forty years (1913-1953) to promoting the idea of creating the Union of European republics (European federation). He considered that the European identity is connected with a new, cosmopolitan identity and citizenship of man. For many (in the 20’s and 30’s), this was utopianism. Nevertheless, with British co-workers, Mitrinovic organized the “New Europe Group” in London (in 1931), in order to promote this idea and platform. For him, the idea of unity and federation for Europe was the solution for economic, political and ecological issues, that will also end the history of wars.
