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Mapping the political geographies of Europeanization National discourses, external perceptions and the question of popular culture

TL;DR: In this paper, political geographers have significantly contributed to understandings of the spatialities of Europeanization, while also highlighting research themes where further political-geographic research would be insightful.
Abstract: Political geographers have significantly contributed to understandings of the spatialities of Europeanization. We review some of this work, while also highlighting research themes where further political-geographic research would be insightful. We note the importance of work that captures both the diverse expressions and meanings attributed to Europe, European integration and ‘European power’ in different places within and beyond the EU, and the variegated manifestations of ‘Europeanizing’ processes across these different spaces. We also suggest that political-geographic research can add crucial input to reconceptualizing European integration as well as Europeanization as it now unfolds in a time of ‘crisis’.
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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.

13,842 citations

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TL;DR: Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier as mentioned in this paperocusing on the post-communist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have generated a rich body of literature over the past 15 years.
Abstract: The Europeanization of Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by Frank Schimmelfennig and Ulrich Sedelmeier. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 256p. $22.50. The postcommunist transformations in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have generated a rich body of literature over the past 15 years. Most works on CEE transitions have drawn from the comparative politics literature and treated international factors, at best, as secondary. Yet with the recent eastern expansion of the Council of Europe, NATO, and the European Union, there has been a growing scholarly interest in the impact of international institutions on domestic changes in this region.

366 citations

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TL;DR: Volkman as mentioned in this paper pointed out that the complexity and importance of the issue raised by Crandell necessitates a more lengthy discussion than provided in either the summarizing essay, which serves as an introduction to the book, or in the chapters that present evidence to support the author's conclusion.
Abstract: Scully’s The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods. Although a vital and impressive analysis, additional references bolstered and amplified his arguments. In Chapter 4 only four sources are cited, with more than half of the footnoted citations drawn from one source. Again, the limited number of sources suggests a circumscribed viewpoint for the multifaceted questions under discussion. This situation may, of course, be the result of the abbreviated length of the book. Nature Pictorialized attempts to do too much in too little space by tracing the conceptual and stylistic evolution of the relationship between pictorial works and real landscapes, while offering a critical review of contemporary landscape architecture. Such topics might effectively be dealt with in a pithy essay, without addressing supplemental issues. However, in this book-length treatment, efforts at consolidation resulted in important arguments being truncated and points not central to the main thesis being eliminated. In Nature Pictorialized, the author clearly distinguishes the difference between the naturalistic and the natural in paintings. She does not even allude to the extensive 19th century literature in which this same distinction in American landscape architecture is widely acknowledged, suggesting instead that designers really believed they were \"creating nature\" in their works. The complexity and importance of the issue raised by Crandell necessitates a more lengthy discussion than provided in either the summarizing essay, which serves as an introduction to the book, or in the chapters that present evidence to support the author’s conclusion. It is always difficult to determine the appropriate length for one’s arguments. Surely every author wishes to write a longer book, while every publisher wants it to be more concise. In the case of issues as multifarious and oblique as those in Nature Pictorialized, there are always questions, tangential to the author’s principal aims, that must be addressed at least in a cursory way for the reader to discern the depth of understanding that has, of necessity, been summarized in the volume published. Nancy.]. Volkman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A &M University, College Station, Texas.

199 citations

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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: Duehr et al. as discussed by the authors, 2010, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 460 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-46774-2, £34.99 (pbk)
Abstract: Reviewed book: 'European Spatial Planning and Territorial Cooperation' by Stefanie Duehr, Claire Colomb & Vincent Nadin, 2010, Abingdon and New York, Routledge, 460 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-46774-2, £34.99 (pbk)

124 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.

13,842 citations


"Mapping the political geographies o..." refers background in this paper

  • ...Some of the above-mentioned characterizations can be found in Anderson (1996), Bache (1998), Bache and Flinders (2004), Barry (1996), Bernard (2002), Browning (2005), Bulmer (1993), Jensen and Richardson (2004),...

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  • ...…geohistorical accounts of national integration, highlighting the role with which language and the ‘printed word’ have been saddled by many modernist scholars (Deutsch, 1966; McLuhan, 1962), regarding the integration of national territories via construction of imagined communities (Anderson, 1991)....

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  • ...…if definitions of ‘communication’ imposed by the functionalist approach tend to highlight textuality, the literature on nation-building has also focused on the crucial role of other ‘visual’ cultural practices such as landscape painting and cartography (Anderson, 1991; Daniels, 1993; Smith, 2000)....

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  • ...First, this is because, even if definitions of ‘communication’ imposed by the functionalist approach tend to highlight textuality, the literature on nation-building has also focused on the crucial role of other ‘visual’ cultural practices such as landscape painting and cartography (Anderson, 1991; Daniels, 1993; Smith, 2000)....

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  • ...Debates over the Europeanization of the spheres of media and popular culture have often drawn on geohistorical accounts of national integration, highlighting the role with which language and the ‘printed word’ have been saddled by many modernist scholars (Deutsch, 1966; McLuhan, 1962), regarding the integration of national territories via construction of imagined communities (Anderson, 1991)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that by thinking beyond traditional conceptions of the EU's international role and examining the case study of its international pursuit of the abolition of the death penalty, we may best conceive of the European Union as a "normative power Europe".
Abstract: Twenty years ago, in the pages of the, Journal of Common Market Studies, Hedley Bull launched a searing critique of the European Community's "civilian power" in international affairs. Since that time the increasing role of the European Union (EU) in areas of security and defence policy has led to a seductiveness in adopting the notion of "military power Europe". In contrast, I will attempt to argue that by thinking beyond traditional conceptions of the EU's international role and examining the case study of its international pursuit of the abolition of the death penalty, we may best conceive of the EU as a "normative power Europe".

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  • ...Lucarelli S and Manners I (eds) (2006) Values and Principles in European Union Foreign Policy....

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  • ...However, what could be considered the ‘third stage’ of conceptualizing the integration process, which from the 1990s onwards has been structured around the concept of ‘Europeanization’ (Featherstone and Radaelli, 2003; Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier, 2005) and debated through ideas such as ‘Normative Power Europe’ (Manners, 2002) or ‘conditionality’ (Grabbe, 2005), has attracted geographers’ sustained attention and critique (see, for Moisio et al....

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  • ...…of ‘Europeanization’ (Featherstone and Radaelli, 2003; Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier, 2005) and debated through ideas such as ‘Normative Power Europe’ (Manners, 2002) or ‘conditionality’ (Grabbe, 2005), has attracted geographers’ sustained attention and critique (see, for example, Bialasiewicz,…...

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  • ...However, what could be considered the ‘third stage’ of conceptualizing the integration process, which from the 1990s onwards has been structured around the concept of ‘Europeanization’ (Featherstone and Radaelli, 2003; Schimmelfennig and Sedelmeier, 2005) and debated through ideas such as ‘Normative Power Europe’ (Manners, 2002) or ‘conditionality’ (Grabbe, 2005), has attracted geographers’ sustained attention and critique (see, for example, Bialasiewicz, 2008; Bialasiewicz et al., 2005; Clark and Jones, 2008; Jones and Clark, 2009)....

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Ian Manners1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that by thinking beyond traditional conceptions of the EU's international role and examining the case study of its international pursuit of the abolition of the death penalty, we may best conceive of the European Union as a normative power Europe.
Abstract: Twenty years ago, in the pages of the Journal of Common Market Studies, Hedley Bull launched a searing critique of the European Community’s ‘civilian power’ in international affairs. Since that time the increasing role of the European Union (EU) in areas of security and defence policy has led to a seductiveness in adopting the notion of ‘military power Europe’. In contrast, I will attempt to argue that by thinking beyond traditional conceptions of the EU’s international role and examining the case study of its international pursuit of the abolition of the death penalty, we may best conceive of the EU as a ‘normative power Europe’.

2,034 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on several literatures to distinguish two types of multi-level governance: dispersion of authority to general-purpose, nonintersecting, and durable jurisdictions, and task-specific, intersecting and flexible jurisdictions.
Abstract: The reallocation of authority upward, downward, and sideways from central states has drawn attention from a growing number of scholars in political science. Yet beyond agreement that governance has become (and should be) multi-level, there is no consensus about how it should be organized. This article draws on several literatures to distinguish two types of multi-level governance. One type conceives of dispersion of authority to general-purpose, nonintersecting, and durable jurisdictions. A second type of governance conceives of task-specific, intersecting, and flexible jurisdictions. We conclude by specifying the virtues of each type of governance.For comments and advice we are grateful to Christopher Ansell, Ian Bache, Richard Balme, Arthur Benz, Tanja Borzel, Renaud Dehousse, Burkard Eberlein, Peter Hall, Edgar Grande, Richard Haesly, Bob Jessop, Beate Kohler-Koch, David Lake, Patrick Le Gales, Christiane Lemke, David Lowery, Michael McGinnis, Andrew Moravcsik, Elinor Ostrom, Franz U. Pappi, Thomas Risse, James Rosenau, Alberta Sbragia, Philippe Schmitter, Ulf Sverdrup, Christian Tusschoff, Bernhard Wessels, the political science discussion group at the University of North Carolina, and the editor and three anonymous reviewers of APSR. We received institutional support from the Center for European Studies at the University of North Carolina, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Wissenschaftszentrum fur Sozialforschung in Berlin. Earlier versions were presented at the European Union Studies Association meeting, the ECPR pan-European Conference in Bordeaux, and Hannover Universitat, Harvard University, Humboldt Universitat, Indiana University at Bloomington, Mannheim Universitat, Sheffield University, Sciences Po (Paris), Technische Universitat Munchen, and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The authors' names appear in alphabetical order.

1,956 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the emergence of multiperspectival institutional forms is identified as a key dimension of the condition of postmodernity in international politics and suggests some ways in which that exploration might proceed.
Abstract: The concept of territoriality has been studied surprisingly little by students of international politics. Yet, territoriality most distinctively defines modernity in international politics, and changes in few other factors can so powerfully transform the modern world polity. This article seeks to frame the study of the possible transformation of modern territoriality by examining how that system of relations was instituted in the first place. The historical analysis suggests that “unbundled” territoriality is a useful terrain for exploring the condition of postmodernity in international politics and suggests some ways in which that exploration might proceed. The emergence of multiperspectival institutional forms is identified as a key dimension of the condition of postmodernity in international politics.

1,906 citations


"Mapping the political geographies o..." refers background in this paper

  • ...…can be found in Anderson (1996), Bache (1998), Bache and Flinders (2004), Barry (1996), Bernard (2002), Browning (2005), Bulmer (1993), Jensen and Richardson (2004), Jordan (2001), Mamadouh and Van der Wusten (2008), Murphy (2008), Peterson (2004), Ruggie (1993), Scott (2002) and Zielonka (2006)....

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