A Dangerous Nexus? History, Ideology and the Structure of the Contemporary Chetnik Movement

Author(s): Nejra Veljan,Maida Ćehajić / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

During the Yugoslav era (1945–1992), the Serb ethno-nationalist Chetnik movement and its motivating ideology were unambiguously condemned in public discourse. This followed the defeat of foreign occupiers, including Italian fascists and German Nazis, who had been aided by collaborationists within Ustasha (Croat ethno-nationalist and fascist) and Chetnik ranks. Thus, in the period after World War Two, public accusations of Chetnik membership were levelled pejoratively in Yugoslavia, and it was clear: to be a Chetnik was to be a traitor. Many former members of Chetnik detachments tried to conceal or minimize their participation in the movement, but some continued fostering Chetnik ideals in the privacy of their homes, even as a shared Partisan/Yugoslav identity was publicly nourished.

A szovjet múlt és a bizonytalan jövő között. Az ukrajnai lengyel kisebbség

Author(s): Gábor Lagzi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2016

An analysis of the European Enlargement Policy through years: the case of Western Balkans

Author(s): Albana Rexha / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

No matter its peculiarities, enlargement policy through its conditionality policy instrument is viewed as the most successful EU foreign policy. It is argued that enlargement has strengthened and stabilized democracy in Europe. This review article discusses the enlargement policy towards the Western Balkans since the 2003 Thessaloniki Summit and the Union’s efforts and mechanisms to maintain enlargement at the forefront. These mechanisms include forums and summits of discussion between EU and Western Balkan key actors, various strategies on enlargement, and financial dedications to fostering reform implementation like IPA. The 2003 Summit is considered a critical point in regards to refocusing attention and efforts to enlargement and reaffirming a European future for the Balkan region; therefore, it is important to consider all alternations from that point in time. Thus, the aim is to look at enlargement policy through years and provide an insightful view to the enlargement credibility that allows us to critically review it. To achieve the set goal, this article employees the content analysis methodology. The results show that although the Commission has shown its commitment to enlargement from time to time, the enlargement policy has been at stake at different times from 2003. The raise of the populism right wing parties in Europe, the growth of eurospectis and spread of terrorism are few of the contributing factors to the enlargement fatigue.

ASPECTS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN PUBLIC POLICIES TOWARDS MUSLIMS IN GREECE, AND THE EUROPEAN CONTEXT

Author(s): Konstantinos Gogos / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2016

In the past few years there have been considerable and positive developments in important issues for the Muslim communities in Greece. The paper focuses on a number of initiatives and policies that have been taken by the Greek state in the last years, aiming at the improvement of Muslim education structures and the strengthening of the religious identity of the Muslim minority of Thrace; it also focuses on recent decisions and initiatives aiming at the improvement of the religious structures of Muslim immigrants in the metropolitan area of Athens. The paper shows the reasons behind these developments, namely the role of the European Union financial and symbolic resources, the changes in the priorities and the mentality of Greek governments since 1990 and especially in the very recent years.

Az Európai Unió szerepének értékelése az ukrajnai konfliktusban

Author(s): Zoltan Galik / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2016

Az európai uniós csatlakozások utáni változások Bihar régióban

Author(s): László Bulcsu / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 01/2017

Antal Lovas Kiss: The Impacts of the European Union accesion to the situation and economic, social structure of several settlements of the Region of Bihar

BENEFICIARIES OF THE SECOND ORDER ELECTION MODEL: RADICAL RIGHT PARTIES IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Author(s): Luiza Maria Filimon / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

After the latest European electoral cycle, right wing parties on the far side of the political spectrum along with right-wing euro-sceptics and conservative anti-federalists won 112 seats. The presence of the radical right in the European Parliament (EP), has often been attributed to the second order election model theorised by Reif and Schmitt (1980). In European elections, turnout is traditionally lower compared to “first” order national elections, parties in government tend to lose vote-shares while smaller parties benefit from the European system of proportional representation. This article analyses the relationship between radical parties and the EP by examining the French and Danish results in the 2014 elections. Though both constitute the third political force in their countries at that time, Front National and Dansk Folkeparti’s electoral support is representative of a second order election. The former party benefited from a classic sanction vote while the second one owes its breakthrough to a particular Danish voting behaviour, somewhat singular in the European Union. The article offers an in-depth overview of the literature on both the radical right, the Second Order Election model as well as radical right parties’ dynamic at the European Parliament level.

BOOK REVIEW. 2014. NATO-EU: A Smarter Collaboration

Author(s): Monica Oproiu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

review of: ------------------ Gabriela Horoşanu. 2014. NATO-EU: A Smarter Collaboration, Bucharest, Tritonic Publishing House, 194 pages, ISBN: 978-606-8571-41-6.

BOOK REVIEW. 2014. Suveranitatea statelor si integrarea europeana a Balcanilor: cazul Serbiei

Author(s): Oana Cristina Popa / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

review of: --------------------- Dan D. Lazea. 2014. Suveranitatea statelor si integrarea europeana a Balcanilor: cazul Serbiei (The Sovereignty of States and the European Integration of the Balkans: The case of Serbia), Timișoara, Western University Publishing House, 257 pages, ISBN: 978-973-125-440-1

CHANGING FROM WITHIN? THE INTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS OF EU ENLARGEMENT

Author(s): Velibor Jakovlevski / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

This paper opens up the black box of enlargement, focusing on how the intra-organizational relationships among the Council of the European Union, the European Commission, and the European Parliament affect the process of enlargement. Formally speaking, enlargement is an intergovernmental process, suggesting that member states are firmly in control of its outcomes. However, the EU’s supranational actors, specifically the European Parliament and European Commission also attempt to influence enlargement at various stages. I posit that the process of enlargement to the Western Balkans has evolved, influenced by changing constraints which are operating on the aforementioned actors. The added value of this work is in disaggregating the enlargement process based on its institutionalized relationships in both a vertical and horizontal dimension. It provides a supply-side argument for how enlargement policy has evolved from within the EU, rather than simply as a function of external factors.

Context, strategies and negotiation methods in the European Union Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe

Author(s): Mihai Alexandrescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2013

After almost a decade since the enlargement of the European Union to Central and Eastern Europe, history can be read with the clarity that time offers. The context, strategies and negotiation methods of 1997-2004 can be analysed more carefully now, because the consequences of those negotiations are felt even today. Covering under the mask of enlargement, we notice the fear of the westerners towards the new Member States which brought in a different history and risked disturbing a system that has been painfully set up since the 1950s. But at the same time, we notice the desire for moral revenge of the candidate countries towards the old EU members. In this study, I analyse the merit of Günter Verheugen, the technocrat who found the right language and strategy to reconcile these two perspectives and who adapted to the present interests of the two parties.

Da li je i zašto upitan identitet Evrope?

Author(s): Šerbo Rastoder / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 74-75/2016

Evropa, posmatrana u istorijskom kontekstu ili prosto kao predmet istoriografije, jest pojava novijeg datuma. Do posljednjih deset do dvadeset godina nije bilo mnogo istoriografskih knjiga koje su je tretirale kao jedinstven istorijski prostor. Ovaj prostor se uglavnom istoriografski sagledavao kao mehanički zbir posebnih nacionalnih istoriografija te se u tom smislu stvaranje evropskih vrijednosti kroz jedinstveno istorijsko iskustvo može sagledavati i kao proces u začetku. Pričati o Evropi je izazov, ne zbog istoriografskih činjenica već zbog prepoznavanja društvenih procesa koji taj kontinent čine posebnim političkim subjektom i jedinstvenim istorijskim prostorom. Zaista, ako ona jest jedinstven prostor, zašto nema istoriju koja bi to legitimisala?

Despre Europa, cu doar doi ani înainte de aderarea României la Uniune

Recenzie la volumul Ana Maria DOBRE, Ramona COMAN (coord.), România și integrarea europeană, Institutul European, Iași, 2005, 352 pagini

Author(s): Octavian Lixeanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: II/2006

Die Veränderungen der Beziehungen zwischen der EU und Kroatien bis zu Beginn der kroatischen Anschlussunterhandlungen

Author(s): Lóránt Bali,László Gulyás / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2010

Duša Europe

Author(s): Drago Jančar / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 21/2016

Neki narodi imaju riječ Bog upisanu u himni, kao Englezi: God Save the Queen, ili Srbi: Bože pravde. Drugi na novcu, kao što mo žemo pročitati na američkim dolarskim novčanicama. Njemački bataljuni upisivali su riječ Bog na ratne stjegove, uvjereni da je Bog s njima: Gott mit Uns.

Eastern Journal of European Studies

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

The Eastern Journal of European Studies (EJES) seeks to provide a forum for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary dialogue between ideas, and a framework for theoretical and empirical analyses covering major topics in European studies: European history, politics, European economy and European policies, EU community law, European culture and society.

EJES encourages studies focusing on Central and Eastern Europe (including Eastern Neighbourhood) in order to better understand its transformations induced by the integration process and to address its specific challenges by supporting scientific debates on the general European theory and practice. Furthermore, the editorial board regularly invites distinguished guest editors to coordinate thematic issues.

EEAS at the Beginning of XXIst Century: Some Institutional Innovations in EU Diplomacy

Author(s): Mădălina Virginia Antonescu / Language(s): / Issue: 1/2015

Even since its beginnings, the EU manifested a constant concern for the development of a specific foreign policy pillar, at an institutional and strategic level, able to surpass the national one. This ambitious vision was progressively extended from a classical approach over foreign policy (a multilateral one, based on cooperation among the EU member states, within a field seen as “traditionally national”), towards a postmodern approach, with obvious supra-state elements. Today, EU diplomacy looks like one of the fundamental pillars of the ”United Europe” concept, of the ”Union” as distinct centre of power, with ambitions in developing a global strategic vision within the foreign policy field, at international level. The paper begins with the current EEAS organization, adding certain institutional innovations about EU diplomacy at the beginning of 21st century and about the way in which the general perception of EU, as global actor, could be improved.

Extinderea din 2004/2007 – un succes economic incontestabil al Uniunii Europene

Author(s): Gabriela Drăgan / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: I/2007

Foreword

Author(s): Monica Oproiu,Miruna Troncota / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Introduction to the special section: THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE WESTERN BALKANS

From ECSC to European Union: An Analysis of the Evolution of the Institutions of European Integration

Author(s): Constantine Hadjilambrinos / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2019

The policymaking process of the European Union (EU) is particularly convoluted and reflects an institutional structure that is unique among governance entities. The institutional structure of the Union is complex, with a multitude of co-decision making and advisory bodies. The ways in which these institutions interact in the Union’s policymaking process (i.e., the EU’s organizational structure) is governed by a complex set of treaties. We argue that institutional and organizational structures have normative content because they embody specific ideologies of integration. A historical analysis of the evolution of European integration reveals that the peculiarities of the European Union's institutional and organizational structure are a result of the influence of three distinct ideologies about the desired nature of international organization: functionalism, intergovernmentalism, and federalism. The Union's roots as the European Coal and Steel Community and the ideas of Jean Monnet concerning the shape and path of European integration, moderated by federalist and intergovernmentalist ideas, were fundamental in determining the European Union’s institutional structure and shaping its policymaking process.