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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Europeanization"”.
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Managing the Natura 2000 network: between Europeanization and societal engagement
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Europeanization of the Estonian Electricity Sector: Historical Legacies and Security Concerns
… EU, a process that is generally understood as Europeanization, thus provides us with a useful case study to determine what conditions limit the EU's attempts to influence domestic politics. Research indicates that the main reason for Estonian opposition is the country's historical legacy in the …
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Transforming identities in Europe: Bulgaria and Macedonia between nationalism and Europeanization
… national identity in the process of empowering Europeanization. In the theoretical and meta-theoretical frame of poststructuralist discourse theory and within the structure of a small-number comparative case study, the investigation selects six narrative groups. They are centred around key …
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The "Europeanization" of the Western Balkans; Is European Conditionality Fostering Democracy?
"This thesis analyzes the current model of European Union conditionality toward the Western Balkans, which based on a dual approach through the Stabilization and Association Process (SAP). Through SAP, the European Union (EU) is trying to stabilize the Western Balkans, while at the same time …
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Europeanization of Foreign Aid: Managing Post-9/11 Fragile, Conflict-Affected States
… the thesis reveals substantive processes of Europeanization concerning transformational soft-content between the UK and EU-level, including notably how UK leadership ambitions ‘uploaded’ pragmatic facets of whole-of-government and stabilisation thinking.
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Japanese firms in the EU: Europeanization of lobbying strategies and enduring national characteristics
… automobile and electronics sectors, explores the Europeanization of Japanese firms' lobbying strategies, and assesses how they have adapted to the constantly evolving EU public policymaking system. With reference to the actor-based models of interest groups and Europeanization literature, it …
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Open crisis, hidden opportunity : Europeanization, the Euro Crisis, and the case of social policy
… possibilities. To demonstrate this, theories of Europeanization are combined with a novel ‘crisis spectrum’ concept comprising of three crisis logics; ‘crisis progression’, ‘crisis diversity’ and ‘crisis stability’ and applied to particular areas of British and Irish social policy. While these …
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Europeanization of Corporate Lobbying in the Enlarged EU: The Missing Link in the Case of Hungary
… in Brussels. It investigates the Europeanization process of corporate lobbying from a comparative capitalism perspective, through the case study of Hungary and the shadow case of the UK. I argue that the theorisation of EU lobbying requires a firm-centred approach and the …
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European integration and foreign policy in Central and Eastern Europe: the cases of Hungary, Slovakia and Romania
This thesis examines the impact of Europeanization on the foreign policy of the new member states of the European Union, using as case studies Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. It asks what the extent of Europeanization of foreign policy is and whether and to what extent there has been divergence in …
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What does it mean to belong? An analysis of migrant integration policies in Germany, Spain, and Hungary
… integration and determines if and how the Europeanization of migration policies plays a role. The central questions guiding this thesis are: How does the Europeanization of migration policies affect the integration of migrants in EU Member States? Additionally, how do national level …
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French and British corporate political strategies in the case of the European Merger Control Regime: national or European?
… conclusions are, in turn, analysed in terms of Europeanization. The latter concept is defined as a horizontal and vertical process related to the existence of the European level of governance. Unlike current conclusions of the Europeanization literature this research project highlights five main …
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The creation of the European Environment Agency and its impact on national administrations in Germany, France and Britain
This thesis analyses the Europeanization of national environmental agencies by assessing the impact of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and its main environmental information and observation network, the Eionet, on three of its member countries, namely Germany, France and Britain.The EEA began …
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Meaning is Use: Civic Initiatives and Europeanisation from below in Bulgaria
… by and constitutive for the process of Europeanization in Bulgaria. Europeanization as a process, overlapping with democratization, was initiated in Bulgaria with EU support to build democracy and pluralism after the demise of Communism in 1989. The EU’s favoured mechanisms through which …
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The Serbian Paradox: The Cost of Integration into the European Union
… powerful president, Aleksandar Vucic, using the Europeanization process to strengthen his hand domestically?
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A prosopographical analysis of society in East Central Scotland, circa 1100 to 1260, with special reference to ethnicity
… which help to hone our understanding for how Europeanization worked in Scotland. It is now clear that, while the adoption of charters should certainly be seen as a Europeanizing trend, their use by aristocratic landholders followed several stages, none of which adhered to any ethnic bias. This …
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Running in the Hamster Wheel. The Foreign Policy of Serbia between National Identity and the International Society.
… regards to Serbia’s foreign factors, such as the Europeanization process and the nature of the international system. The overarching focus of the thesis is laid on the following puzzle: in spite of not attaining self-declared foreign policy goals and changing dynamics at the systemic level, …
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The Englishization of Tanzanian Kiswahili: A study in language contact and convergence
… no significant impact, for almost a century. The Europeanization of African languages is a very productive process as it will be attested in this study.
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From Kyiv with Love: the Push to Legalize Same-Sex Civil Partnerships
This master’s thesis will analyze the hyper-Europeanization occurring in Ukrainian society regarding the potential legalization of same-sex civil partnerships following the Russian 2022 full-scale invasion. To conduct this study, open-source media was collected from various groups within Ukrainian …
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Justice and home affairs and Romania's accession to the European Union
… less, successful, this study contributes to the Europeanization and enlargement literature. By assessing the preparations for accession in the field of Justice and Home Affairs, this research also fills a major lacuna in the existing specialised literature.
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