MOBILIZING POLITICS AND SOCIETY?
The EU Convention represents an innovative political architecture to structure the debate on the future Constitution of the European Union. Its key aim was to spawn a large debate on the future of the Union in the member states. Specifically, the Convention contained mechanisms for the participation of domestic politicians, the civil society, intellectuals and the youth.
Mobilizing Politics and Society? raises the question of whether the EU Convention has really generated participation and debate beyond the technocratic circles of EU policy making. Chapters examine both current member states and countries outside the EU in the South of Europe, focussing on a range of countries such as Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Malta, Cyprus and Turkey. The contributors compare discourses, forms of mobilization, types of participation and also the lack thereof. A timely and useful map to show how the South of Europe is discussing the future of the EU, this book also demonstrates that the participation and engagement of social actors in EU affairs remains limited and explains why. The book contains an Appendix section with documentation on the EU Convention and South European participants.
A timely analysis of the European Union Conventions impact on the domestic political systems, and civil society in Southern Europe, this book will be of interest to students and academics of Politics and the European Union.
This book is a special issue of the journal South European Society and Politics.
Sonia Lucarelli is currently Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the Universities of Bologna at Forli and at the University of Siena. Her areas of interest include IR theory, European security and EU foreign policy.
Claudio M. Radaelli is Professor of Public Policy, Jean Monnet Chair in EU Policy Analysis and Director of the Centre for European Studies at Bradford University. His research interests lie in the theory of the public process, new modes of governance, EU public policy, international tax policy, and the politics of regulation.
MOBILIZING POLITICS AND SOCIETY?
The EU Conventions Impact on Southern Europe
Edited by Sonia Lucarelli and Claudio M. Radaelli
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CONTENTS
HELEN WALLACE
SONIA LUCARELLI AND CLAUDIO M. RADAELLI
DANIELA PIANA
JESSE SCOTT AND FILIPPO VERGARA CAFFARELLI
MARGARITA LEON, MERCEDES MATEO DIAZ AND COVADONGA MESEGUER
CARLOS CLOSA MONTERO
FRANCISCO TORRES AND ANA FRAGA
NICOS YANNIS
PETER G. XUEREB
KALLIOPE AGAPIOU-JOSEPHIDES
KEMAL KRC AND ZEYNEP GLAH APAN
MICHAEL KEATING
MERCEDES MATEO DIAZ
Kalliope Agapiou-Josephides is a Lecturer and Jean Monnet Chair Holder at the University of Cyprus, Department of Social and Political Sciences. Her research interests and publications include: institutional aspects of European integration, women and politics, women and science.
Carlos Closa Montero is Associated Researcher at the Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratgicos. His publications include Sistema Poltico de la Unin Europea (1997); Spain and the EU (with Paul Heywood, 2004); and La europeizacin del sistema poltico espaol (editor, 2001).
Ana Fraga has been a senior advisor to the committee on European affairs of Assembleia da Repblica since 1991. Her most recent publications include Os Parlamentos Nacionais e a Legitimidade da Unio Europeia (2001).
Zeynep Glah apan is Research Assistant at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her areas of interest are the European Union, migration, IR theory, citizenship and identity.
Michael Keating is Professor of Regional Studies at the European University Institute, Italy, and Professor of Scottish politics at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has published numerous books and articles on urban and regional politics, nationalism and European politics. Currently he is working on regional development policies in Europe, on stateless nations in the changing international order, and on devolution in the United Kingdom. He is co-director of the ECPR Standing Group on Regionalism and co-editor of Regional and Federal Studies.
Kemal Kirici is professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boazii University, Istanbul. He holds a Jean Monnet chair in European Integration and is also the director of the Centre for European Studies at the university. His areas of research interest include European integration, Middle Eastern politics, ethnic conflicts, and refugee movements and international migration. His publications include Justice and Home Affairs Issues in Turkish-EU Relations (2001); Turkey in World Politics: An Emerging Multi-Regional Power (co-editor with B. Rubin, 2001); The Political Economy of Cooperation in the Middle East (co-author, 1998); Turkey and the Kurdish Question: An Example of a Trans-State Ethnic Conflict (co-author, 1997); and The PLO and World Politics, (1986). Kirisci has also published numerous articles and chapters on identity issues, Turkish foreign policy, northern Iraq and refugee movements in academic journals and edited books.
Margarita Len holds a post-doctoral Marie Curie Fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy.
Sonia Lucarelli is currently Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the University of Bologna at Forli (undergraduate programme) and at the University of Siena (Master and PhD programmes). Her areas of interest include IR theory, European security and EU foreign policy. Among her recent publications: Europe and the Breakup of Yugoslavia. A Political Failure in Search of a Scholarly Explanation (2000); La polis europea. LUnione europea oltre leuro (editor, 2002); Studi internazionali: i luoghi del sapere in Italia (co-editor with Roberto Menotti, 2002). She is author of articles and book chapters on the areas of interest mentioned above.
Mercedes Mateo Diaz holds a post-doctoral Jean Monnet/Vincent Wright Fellowship in Comparative Politics and Marie Curie Fellowship at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy.
Covadonga Meseguer holds a post-doctoral Jean Monnet Fellow/Vincent Wright Fellowship in Comparative Politics at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy.
