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Everyday Europeanization in EUrope's peripheries. Towards a Performative Turn in EU Studies Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Vjosa Musliu
Political Science
So far, research in EU studies has prioritised structures, institutions, actors; and has relied primarily on positivist methods, ignoring everyday routines and performance habits that are integral to making the EU what it is. To remedy this gap, this project proposes a performative turn to understand how Europeanization functions as an everyday project. It takes the notion of performativity and argues that it is in the way everyday practices are ...

The Europeanization of Legal Systems and Judiciaries in the Eastern Neighbourhood of the European Union Ghent University

Peter Van Elsuwege
Department of European law

This project studies if and how the EU's primary legal framework and its external policies (in particular the European Neigbourhood Policy) encourage the Europeanization of legal systems and judiciaries in the Eastern neighbourhood of the EU. It analyses the results of legal approximation and regulatory convergence in relations between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Russia.

SIGNALING VALUES: Europeanisation and Memory Politics in Croatia and Serbia KU Leuven

Peter Vermeersch, Heleen Touquet
Leuven International and European Studies (LINES)

In this study I examine the ways in which ‘Europe’ has been built as a mnemonic community based on a shared past. Numerous academics and practitioners have argued for the emergence of a ‘European memory’ – i.e. a shared narrative about the past as an instrument to strengthen a sense of common European identity across populations in Europe. Over the last 30 years EU institutions and political elites have been promoting this approach – i.e. the ...

Inside the municipal lobby. Determining the conditions of local government influence on European decision-making. Ghent University

Herwig Reynaert
Department of Political Sciences

In recent decades, local government has become increasingly affected by EU-regulations. Yet simultaneously, the EU offers a new opportunity to promote local interests, for instance by lobbying its decision-making process. This research project will investigate the effectiveness of the municipal lobby in Europe. More specifically, it will determine which conditions explain influence of local government on European decision-making through ...

European Community-Japan Bilateral Trade Relations from the 1980s to the Early 1990s: Role of Japan's External Perception on Recognition and Effectiveness of the European Commission as International Trade Actor KU Leuven

Kolja Raube, Dimitri Vanoverbeke
Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Japanese Studies, Leuven, Leuven International and European Studies (LINES)

Existing academic literature on the relations between the European Union (EU) and Japan pays less attention to trade conflicts between the European Community (EC) and Japan from 1970s to 1990s. More specifically, despite the important changes of Japanese/EC sectoral trade policy from EC Member States level to EC level in the 1980s and the early 1990s, limited numbers of existing academic literature on EC-Japan trade conflicts in the period ...