09Sep 2014
Call for Papers ¨Europe by Design: Rethinking Projects and Policies¨, Sciences Po, 8 July, 2015 - 10 July, 2015
01:59 - By Daniela Vintila - Call for Papers
Call for Papers ¨Europe by Design: Rethinking Projects and Policies¨, Sciences Po, 8 July, 2015 - 10 July, 2015
Application Deadline: 26 September, 2014
Abstract: The European Union is facing one of its most dramatic crisis, investing economic, institutional, and social aspects of its existence. The crisis has highlighted the fragile foundations of EU’s democracy and has challenged its social cohesion, leading to questioning the idea of Europe itself. The difficulty in overcoming the current impasse has emphasized the inconsistency of the European project itself, dramatically bringing to the fore the question of how the EU has been designed. The issue of how strategies, visions and projects of EU integration are defined has become, consequently, crucial. More than the outcome of a precise political design, the EU itself seems rather the product of the action of economic, political and bureaucratic elites, of pressure and interest groups and of opinion movements that, from the 1950s onwards, have pursued their own visions of Europe, leading to complex and often contradictory policies and strategies. This panel/mini symposium sheds light on the ways in which projects concerning Europe have been shaped and how have been implemented from the beginning of the integration process to present day. From a theoretical, social and historical perspective, it considers a variety of actors operating in complex decision making processes; as well as the processes and the architectures affecting the design of the EU.
The purpose of the panel/mini-symposium is to address questions such as:
· How do infrastructural needs affect visions about Europe? · How does the Internet affect EU political projects and strategies? · Governing by Internet architecture: what kind of European policy in the geopolitical arena? · How did the EU’s institutional architecture affect the responses to the crisis? · How does the perception of economic, political and institutional crisis influence the creation of EU strategies? · What has been and what is the role of Eurobureaucracies in defining projects of European integration? · Does evaluation affect the legitimation of EU’s policies and the strengthening of European integration? · How has the role of intellectuals changed, from the early twentieth century to today, in shaping projects of European integration? · How has the role of politicians, business men, engineers, bankers and bureaucrats impacted on European social and political life? · What impact have the old and new media in defining projects about the EU?