Thesis (PH. D.)--Miami University, Dept. of Political Science, 2005. / Title from second page of PDF document. Document formatted into pages; contains [2], vii, 101 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-99).

The aim of this paper is to try and answer, to what extent Turkey is fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria and in which criteria it is seen to be more fragile respective stronger during the years 2015-2016. The study tries to answer the question ”to what extent is Turkey fulfilling the Copenhagen Criteria?”, exploring all three of them, trying to answer where Turkey stands in relation to each one of them. This is a theory consuming study. It is a case study, that uses a theory based on the Copenhagen Criteria, and this is combined with the empirical material collected from trustworthy sources to put forth answers in order to answer the questions of the research. The results of the study show that there are something fulfilled in all three criteria, where its strength can be found in its economy, and is considered to be very competitive on the market. The weaknesses are many, but are clearest in the first criteria, where it shows several flaws regarding e.g. its judiciary problems.

abstract: This dissertation critically examines whether and how the practices involved in the crafting of the European Union may be said to go beyond modern statecraft. European integration should in part be seen as an attempt to transcend the modern state. Among many of the early proponents of European integration, the nation state had become associated with militarism, jingoism and ultimately, at least partly, to the blamed for the many devastating wars on the European continent, and even a normative order that made the Holocaust possible. Most other studies that have dealt with the EU's alleged difference from the modern state have employed an understanding of the state which confers a certain ontological standing and status onto its purported object of study. This dissertation argues that a critical approach to European integration needs to go beyond such a representationalist, ontologizing understanding of a political entity. Instead, in order to start addressing the question of state violence that European integration emerged as a response to, the crafting of the Europe Union needs to be problematized in relation to practices of statecraft. The dissertation also contends that previous engagements of European integration in relation to the modern state have neglected engaging the broader normative horizon in which the modern Westphalian state is inscribed. The first chapter puts forward a way of understanding modern statecraft. The subsequent chapters examine four different legitimation discourses of European integration against such an understanding: EU's failed Constitutional Treaty, EU's foreign policy discourse, European integration theory, and an instance of European migration policy. The dissertation concludes that the crafting of Europe in many ways resembles the crafting of the modern state. In fact, the crafting of the European Union is plagued by similar ethical dilemmas as the modern state, and ultimately animated by a similar desire to either expel or interiorize difference. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Political Science 2012

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This document is a comparative synthesis of the reports on regional case studies written by PERCEIVE's partners. Each report is based both on an original data collection and on the analysis of the focus group's section that addresses communication issues. Each partner collected national and/or regional communication plans, which were mostly used for the first chapter of this report: "Communication strategy at different levels and LMAs' organization."

Research into the European Union (EU) increasingly focuses on the policy-making processes which take place within the EU, as distinct from trying to explain or predict the broad phenomenon of European integration. This thesis adopts a similar focus on EU policy-making. Policy-making in the EU is examined using a policy network approach. The main aim of the thesis is to assess how useful the policy network approach is as a means of explaining EU policy processes and policy outputs. The policy network approach is therefore applied not simply as a mechanism for describing patterns of interest intermediation but, rather, as a tool for explaining a new form of network governance in the EU. The thesis therefore aims to test the claims of the policy network literature that it can better account for policy-making in the EU than can more traditional approaches derived either from international relations (IR) or comparative politics (CP). The thesis applies a policy network approach to the study of EU environmental policy-making. Three case studies - on air quality, landfill and drinking water legislation - are examined, in order to assess whether a policy network approach can help explain the development of EU policy in these areas. Overall the thesis finds a useful role for policy network analysis in helping to explain EU policymaking and policy outputs. At the same time, however, the thesis confirms the limitations of the policy network approach at EU-level. Policy network analysis must therefore be combined with both IR and CP approaches in order to gain a fuller understanding of how EU policy is made.

The EU has widened and deepened the single market over time according to a transactionalist discourse of common-interests in integration. This rationale holds that as amounts of cross-border movement increase, Member State populations should perceive the single market as beneficial, thus leading to the creation of an affective European identity. Instead, as consequences of integration have become more visible, resistance to the EU has become more pronounced, especially with relation to the Union's right of free movement of persons. This thesis argues that interest-based theories of integration ignore prospects for resilient national identities to influence the accordance of solidarity ties, so as to color interest perceptions within national public spheres. Combining the literature on European identity, moral panic and communication studies on news framing, it maintains that the popular news media provide a conduit through which these interest perceptions can be taken up through the tendency of news outlets to report events that deviantly threaten underlying identity conceptions. Through content analysis of 'popular' press in the UK, Spain and Poland, it seeks to show how the inane tendency of news to report events in terms of an identity-based narrative can serve to foment moral panic within national publics. Contrary to interest based theories of integration, the EU's discourse clashes with national identity. Disintegration may be posited as the 'proper stance' to be supported on the part of the public in news narrative, if threatening deviance caused by EU migration is to be resolved. / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

La thèse présentée s'inscrit dans une période de crise économique, qui affecte tout particulièrement les institutions européennes. A l'aide de données récentes, nous tentons de cerner des continuités ou ruptures dans la perception que les citoyens ont de l'intégration européenne. Nous utilisons de nouvelles sources pour effectuer nos travaux et travaillons sur la variable dépendante afin de cibler un aspect précis du soutien à l'intégration dans chaque chapitre. Sur le plan théorique, nos travaux confirment que quelle que soit la variable dépendante choisie et la méthode utilisée, il existe une masse d'individus favorables à l'Union européenne, et les autres, qui semblent plutôt indécis. Ce clivage entre deux populations s'explique très largement par les déterminants socioéconomiques. Les individus les plu: aisés et les plus qualifiés se montrent nettement plus favorables à l'intégration européenne dans chacune des dimensions étudiées. En dehors de ce résultat bien connu de la littérature, de nombreuses limites aux explications fondées sur des variables économiques sont mises en lumière dans cette thèse. Dans le premier chapitre nous montrons que, pour distinguer les individus hostiles à l'intégration des individus indécis, il est indispensable de prendre en compte l'offre politique nationale. Le deuxième chapitre met en évidence le fait que les variables économiques n'expliquent que faiblement le soutien "affectif" c'est-à-dire le soutien diffus et stable dans le temps dont l'Union européenne a besoin pour exister et avancer. Enfin, dans le dernier chapitre, nous constatons que les variables économiques expliquent mal la dimension territorial des préférences politiques. / The present dissertation uses recent data to identify continuities and ruptures in the perception of the European Union held by European citizens. We especially question the extent to which economic drivers shape public support for the European Union. New data sources are used to carry out the empirical analysis in our study. The dependant variables in each chapters are designed to identify precise aspects o public support. From a theoretical perspective, our findings confirm that regardless of the dependent variable and the method used, a sizeable majority of EU citizens are supportive of the EU, while the other half of the European population appears as uncertain. This broa cleavage is explained to a large extend by socioeconomic determinants. Highly skilled respondents with high incomes display more pro­EU attitudes in each of the dimensions of public support considered in the empirical analysis. Alongside this result, which is already well­known in the literature, the present dissertation emphasizes several limitations to the explanatory power of economic variables. ln the first chapter, we show that, to distinguish between individuals hostile to the idea of European integration and those who are only uncertain (or ambivalent), the domestic political offer should be taken into account. Chapter two highlights the fact that economic variables do not explain affective support i.e. diffuse support, stable over time which is crucial to the legitimacy of European institutions and to ensure the continuity of the EU. Finally, in the last chapter, it appears that the theoretical frameworks applied to former member states cannot be applied to new member states.

Notre recherche, qui articule un objet de science politique, un traitement historique et une problématisation philosophique, vise à déterminer si la démocratie communautaire s’est construite sur une intégration par le peuple ou pour le peuple. De l’entre-deux-guerres jusqu’au traité de Lisbonne, nous avons étudié les discours des théoriciens et des praticiens de la construction européenne afin de préciser le rapport de l’Europe politique à son ou ses peuples. Ce rapport obéit-il à une dynamique ascendante – le peuple comme acteur de l’intégration post-nationale – ou à une dynamique descendante – le peuple comme bénéficiaire de l’intégration post-nationale ? La première partie de notre recherche se concentre sur la « pré-histoire » du projet d’unification continentale et sur la naissance de la Communauté européenne. Alors que l’intégration ne repose encore sur aucun « peuple européen » constituant, une théorie de la démocratie communautaire commence à affleurer dans le discours des trois généalogies communaliste, fédéraliste et technocratique. La deuxième partie de notre travail aborde la transition entre la Communauté européenne et l’Union européenne et la manière dont elle s’est accompagnée d’un approfondissement paradoxal de l’idée démocratique malgré le peuple. La troisième partie de notre enquête aborde le changement de paradigme politique qui accompagne l’échec du projet de traité constitutionnel et la ratification du Traité de Lisbonne. Dans quelle mesure cette période de crise ouvre-t-elle la voie d’une forme ambiguë de démocratie contre le peuple ? / The purpose of my research which connects three fields – Political Science, History and Philosophy – is to determine whether European supranational democracy is built on the basis of an integration by the people or for the people. From the interwar period to the Lisbon Treaty I have studied the theoretical and practical views of the European Construction in order to define the relation between political Europe and its people: does this relation follow an ascending process – the people as actors of the post-national integration – or a descending process – the people benefiting by the post-national integration? The first part of my research studies the continental unification project and the birth of the European Community’s “pre-history”. Whereas the integration is not yet based on any constituent “European people”, a communautary democracy theory begins to appear in the three communalist, federalist and technocratic genealogy lines. The second part of my research deals with the transition between the European Community and the European Union and the way it has been backed up with a paradoxical increasing of the idea of democracy in spite of the people. The last part of my research deals with the change in political paradigm, linked to the failure of both the constitutional treaty project and the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, and examines to what extent a period of crisis could lead to an ambiguous form of democracy against the people.

Afin de circonscrire l'objet de recherche proposée, quelques éclaircissements sur les confins historiques et géographiques du sujet étudié sont nécessaires.Du point de vue historique, la période concernée commence à la fin des années 80, avec la chute du communisme, qui est pratiquement le moment à partir duquel est posée la question de la réintégration européenne des États de la région. Cependant, il conviendra de faire quelques investigations dans l'histoire du 20ème siècle, voire même auparavant, afin de comprendre certaines caractéristiques de la région. Par exemple, la problématique du Kosovo ne peut être comprise sans connaître son passé et la valeur symbolique de cette région considérée par les Serbes comme leur berceau historique.Du point de vue géographique, la carte politique des Balkans est controversée. Toutefois, si l’on considère le Danube comme la limite nordique de la région, certains pays ont leur territoire tout entier inclus dans la région balkanique (cas de l'Albanie, la Bosnie-Herzégovine, la Bulgarie, la Macédoine, le Monténégro, la Grèce). Mais, il y en a d’autres dont le territoire - soit en entier, soit une partie - se trouve au nord du Danube (tels la Croatie, la Roumanie, la Serbie, la Slovénie) ou même en dehors de l’Europe (la Turquie). Pour délimiter plus clairement les pays qui feront l’objet de cette recherche, on utilisera comme critère de démarcation l'histoire de l'intégration européenne des vingt dernières années. Ainsi la Grèce, bien que membre de l’UE depuis 1989, fera-t-elle aussi l’objet de cette recherche du fait de la pertinence, pour la future politique de conditionnalité, du cas de suspension de l’accord, décidée par la CEE à l’époque du Régime des Colonels. Dans ces conditions, les pays concernés de façon collatérale par cette recherche recouvrent toutes les étapes possibles de l’intégration :- des Etats qui sont déjà membres de l’UE, tels la Slovénie (depuis 2004), la Bulgarie et la Roumanie (depuis 2007) et la Croatie (à partir de 2013);- des Etats auxquels l’UE a accordé le statut officiel d’Etat-candidat, tels la Macédoine, le Monténégro, la Turquie et la Serbie;- des Etats bénéficiant du statut d’Etat-candidat potentiel, tels l’Albanie, la Bosnie-Herzégovine, le Kosovo / N order to circumscribe the proposed research, some clarification of the historical and geographical boundaries of the subject is needed.From the historical point of view, the period begins in the late 1980s, with the fall of communism, which is practically the moment from which the question of the European reintegration of the States of the region is asked. However, it will be necessary to make some investigations in the history of the 20th century, and even before, in order to understand certain characteristics of the region. For example, the problem of Kosovo can not be understood without knowing its past and the symbolic value of this region considered by the Serbs as their historical cradle. From a geographical point of view, the political map of the Balkans is controversial. However, if one considers the Danube as the northern boundary of the region, some countries have their entire territory included in the Balkan region (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece). But there are others whose territory - either in their entirety or part - lies in the northern part of the Danube (such as Croatia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia) or even outside Europe ( Turkey). To demarcate more clearly the countries that will be the subject of this research, the history of European integration over the last twenty years will be used as a demarcation criterion. Thus Greece, although a member of the EU since 1989, will also be the subject of this research because of the relevance for the future conditionality policy of the suspension of the agreement, decided by EEC at the time of the Regime of Colonels. Under these conditions, the countries concerned in a collateral fashion by this research cover all possible stages of integration:- States which are already members of the EU, such as Slovenia (since 2004), Bulgaria and Romania (since 2007) and Croatia (from 2013);- States to which the EU has granted the official status of candidate state, such as Macedonia, Montenegro, Turkey and Serbia;- States enjoying the status of potential candidate states, such as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo