1st Edition

Towards a European Society? Boundaries, borders, barriers

Edited By Ronald Pohoryles, Saša Božić Copyright 2017
128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

In the aftermath of the Maastricht Treaty, Europe saw tremendous integration, but the last few years have seen a new power game between federalist and confederalist actors. Although the Lisbon Treaty increased the power of the federalist-inclined European Parliament, the politics of the European Council are marked by a confederalist approach that re-affirms the power of the individual member... Read more

Introduction: Reconsidering ‘European Society’ Saša Božić and Ronald J. Pohoryles

1. The making of European society: contesting methodological nationalism Gerard Delanty

2. Gezi Park and EuroMaidan: social movements at the borders Leyla Önal

3. Towards a ("thick", "thin", or "parallel") European society? Understanding the dynamics of European multiplicity Didem Buhari-Gulmez and Chris Rumford

4. EU ideology Nikola Petrović

5. Cross-border partnership – the impact of institutions on creating the borderland communities (the case of Spree-Neisse-Bober Euroregion) Joanna Frątczak-Müller and Anna Mielczarek-Żejmo

6. Policy-making on science in society between Europeanization and core-periphery divide Jasminka Lažnjak and Jadranka Švarc

Biography

Ronald J. Pohoryles is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the ICCR Foundation, and Associate Professor for Comparative Political Systems at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. His research expertise covers European integration, emphasizing public policy analysis, science, and technology with emphasis on internationalization, green economy and environment, and technological integrated assessment. 

Saša Božić is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Zadar, Croatia. From 2013-2015 he served as President of the Croatian Sociological Association. His major research interests are transnational processes and social space, nations and nationalism, migration and post-migration processes, and ethnic relations.