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The Finch Effect: Evolutionary Metaphors And Illiberal Democracy In Central And Eastern Europe, Abigail Woodfield
The Finch Effect: Evolutionary Metaphors And Illiberal Democracy In Central And Eastern Europe, Abigail Woodfield
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
In recent years, several states in Central and Eastern Europe have seen democratic digression. Such illiberal resurgences came as a surprise to the many political scientists who assumed that the future of these states was democratic. Indeed, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the world largely regarded liberal democracy as the predominant system of government. The future seemed bright, and it was tempting to understand that future in evolutionary terms—just as humans evolved under natural selection to become the dominant species, democracy had survived a similar competition and defeated all other systems of government to become the dominant regime. …
Feuds Of A Thousand Years: Explaining Europe Via The World System, Hans Hubbard
Feuds Of A Thousand Years: Explaining Europe Via The World System, Hans Hubbard
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
This paper argues for a more comprehensive study of the European Union that includes consideration, not only of socio-economic and political processes, but also of changing conceptualisations of identity, governance and democratic legitimacy. It argues for a re-examination of traditional narratives that frame the European Union as a response to the cruelties of the Second World War. Several key paradoxes in European history cannot be satisfactorily accounted for through purely intra-European processes: the European idea’s pre-dating the Second World War; the lack of a strong impulse for unified defence; the UK’s late membership and euroscepticism; the desire for a closed-off …
Future Stability In The European Union: Realism, Constructivism, And Institutionalism, Maya Swisa
Future Stability In The European Union: Realism, Constructivism, And Institutionalism, Maya Swisa
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
No abstract provided.
British Policy Formulation For The Eu, Bryce Comstock
British Policy Formulation For The Eu, Bryce Comstock
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
No abstract provided.
The Soft Power Dilemma: Can The European Union Sacrifice The Carrot And The Stick And Command With Soft Power Alone?, Helen Pollock
The Soft Power Dilemma: Can The European Union Sacrifice The Carrot And The Stick And Command With Soft Power Alone?, Helen Pollock
Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union
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