1st Edition

Europeanization as Discursive Practice Constructing Territoriality in Central Europe and the Western Balkans

By Senka Neuman Stanivuković Copyright 2018
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

Europeanization as Discursive Practice adopts a poststructuralist reading of Europeanization to study the effects of EU accession in the light of political territoriality and consequent state-building processes in the EU and Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) and the Western Balkans, from 1990-2013. Focusing on how domestic actors have framed Europe/EU norms in the debates on... Read more

Introduction  1. Meta-theory, Neoinstitutionalism, and Europeanization  2. A Poststructural Reading of Europeanization  3. Discourse as Data – Methodology of Discourse Analysis  4. Europeanization via Discursive Practice – Articulations of Europe in the Domestic Policy Debate on Territorial Reforms in the Czech Republic and Slovakia  5. Debating Territorial Reforms in Croatia  Conclusion

Biography

Senka Neuman Stanivuković is an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and is a part of the Euroculture Erasmus Mundus program team. She is also a guest lecturer at the State University of New York (SUNY), USA.