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Europeanization or EU-ization? The Transfer of European Norms across Time and Space

Flockhart, Trine (2010) Europeanization or EU-ization? The Transfer of European Norms across Time and Space. JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 48 (4). pp. 787-810. ISSN 0021-9886. E-ISSN 1468-5965. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02074.x) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:54458)

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Abstract

What is the content of Europeanization? Which causal relationships should be explained? Which theory should be used? In answering these questions, the article forwards a conceptualization of Europeanization based on Historical Sociology and Social Constructivism, which implies a departure from the practice in the current Europeanization literature to concentrate on the contemporary with a narrow focus (EU-ization) at the expense of the historical with a broad focus (Europeanization). It is suggested that the causal relationships to be explained are the transfer of European ideas across time and space using a ‘present-as-reality’ definition of the European idea set. In doing so, it becomes apparent that Europeanization cannot be accepted as either static or something that is solely connected to the EU, and that Europeanization has been characterized by diffusion patterns going both into and out of Europe and sociological processes involving subtle shifts in process, structure, agents and conceptions of ‘Other’ and ‘Significant We’.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2010.02074.x
Subjects: J Political Science > JZ International relations
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Depositing User: Trine Flockhart
Date Deposited: 08 Mar 2016 13:05 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:22 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/54458 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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