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Complete Dissertation University of Groningen Europeanization : A Poststructuralist Approach Neuman-Stanivukovic, Senka IMPORTANT NOTE: You are advised to consult the publisher's version (publisher's PDF) if you wish to cite from it. Please check the document version below. Document Version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Publication date: 2014 Link to publication in University of Groningen/UMCG research database Citation for published version (APA): Neuman-Stanivukovic, S. (2014). Europeanization : A Poststructuralist Approach. [S.n.]. Copyright Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). The publication may also be distributed here under the terms of Article 25fa of the Dutch Copyright Act, indicated by the “Taverne” license. 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NeumanProefschrift .indd 1 Europeanization: a poststructuralist approach Proefschrift ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen op gezag van de rector magnificus prof. dr. E. Sterken en volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties. De openbare verdediging zal plaatsvinden op maandag 17 november 2014 om 14.30 uur door Senka Neuman Stanivuković geboren op 3 september 1983 te Zagreb, Kroatië BW proefschrift S. Neuman deel 1.indd 1 10-10-2014 13:53:45 Promotores Prof. dr. P.M.E. Volten Prof. dr. J.H. de Wilde Beoordelingscommissie Prof. dr. J. van der Harst Prof. dr. S. Miháliková Prof. dr. J.Q.T. Rood ISBN: 978-90-367-7159-7 BW proefschrift S. Neuman deel 1.indd 2 10-10-2014 13:53:46 A Poststructuralist Europeanization Approach Senka Neuman Stanivuković BW proefschrift S. Neuman deel 1.indd 3 10-10-2014 13:53:46 KONINKLIJKE WÖHRMANN BW proefschrift S. Neuman deel 1.indd 4 10-10-2014 13:53:46 Acknowledgments It takes a village to write a PhD dissertation. When a dissertation is being written in four different countries, six cities and on multiple locations, then the process demands extensive logistical and emotional support next to the academic one. It is rather paradoxical that thesis writing – which is probably the loneliest activity apart from driving a truck (note that truck drivers at least get access to a TV) – involves so many people. An additional paradox is that so many people are willing to (voluntarily) help one towards a title, but it is only the student who enjoys all the perks and peeves of a life with a PhD suffix. The final paradox is that it took us (please note that my willingness to share ownership over the thesis extends to the collectivization of guilt and individualization of success) over six years to write approximately 200 pages of text. This amounts to 0,091 page or some 30 words per day (and then some dare to claim Academia to be unproductive). The final final paradox is that I am equally uncertain about the problems that this book was to answer now as I was six years ago. However, if we are to trust Zygmunt Bauman that in times of liquid modernity it becomes almost impossible to construct identities that endure over time and space, then an uncertain (confused?) researcher is precisely what the doctor prescribed. Put simply, because the World is a mess, we need to put more money into poststructuralist research. Thus, in the spirit of the above, allow me to propose a few maxims about PhD research. First, PhD research is an absurd process in which one faces many contradictions, which prevent one from establishing absurd conclusions. Second, to finish your dissertation in time, you need to write more than 30 words of text a day. Third (and most important), it takes a well-organized, emotionally stable, altruistic, procrastinating, poststructuralist village to write a PhD dissertation. Whereas the universal validity of these claims can certainly be questioned (well, maybe with the exception of the second one), it is beyond doubt that the past few years were marked by fantastic personal and intellectual growth. Writing this dissertation would not have been possible (or half as much joyful) without the support of my family, friends, colleagues, and mentors. To My Mentors 2 V BW proefschrift S. Neuman deel 1.indd 5 10-10-2014 13:53:46 Acknowledgments It takes a village to write a PhD dissertation. When a dissertation is being written in four different countries, six cities and on multiple locations, then the process demands extensive logistical and emotional support next to the academic one. It is rather paradoxical that thesis writing – which is probably the loneliest activity apart from driving a truck (note that truck drivers at least get access to a TV) – involves so many people. An additional paradox is that so many people are willing to (voluntarily) help one towards a title, but it is only the student who enjoys all the perks and peeves of a life with a PhD suffix. The final paradox is that it took us (please note that my willingness to share ownership over the thesis extends to the collectivization of guilt and individualization of success) over six years to write approximately 200 pages of text. This amounts to 0,091 page or some 30 words per day (and then some dare to claim Academia to be unproductive). The final final paradox is that I am equally uncertain about the problems that this book was to answer now as I was six years ago. However, if we are to trust Zygmunt Bauman that in times of liquid modernity it becomes almost impossible to construct identities that endure over time and space, then an uncertain (confused?) researcher is precisely what the doctor prescribed. Put simply, because the World is a mess, we need to put more money into poststructuralist research. Thus, in the spirit of the above, allow me to propose a few maxims about PhD research. First, PhD research is an absurd process in which one faces many contradictions, which prevent one from establishing absurd conclusions. Second, to finish your dissertation in time, you need to write more than 30 words of text a day. Third (and most important), it takes a well-organized, emotionally stable, altruistic, procrastinating, poststructuralist village to write a PhD dissertation. Whereas the universal validity of these claims can certainly be questioned (well, maybe with the exception of the second one), it is beyond doubt that the past few years were marked by fantastic personal and intellectual growth. Writing this dissertation would not have been possible (or half as much joyful) without the support of my family, friends, colleagues, and mentors. To My Mentors The first who deserve my deepest gratitude are my supervisors at the University of Groningen (RUG); prof. dr. Peter Volten and prof. dr. Jaap de Wilde. Thank you for providing me with the freedom to wonder and explore intellectually, while also preventing me from going overboard.2 Your insightful comments and criticism have helped me simplify and organize my ideas, but also my ambitions. Peter, thank you for teaching me how to formulate a research question in the first week of my MA studies and thank you for not allowing me to get lost in theorizing for the sake of theory over the past six years of my PhD studies. Above all, thank you for jamming the paper with my PhD proposal on my first day as a PhD student and saying that now that I am in, we can start from scratch (did I mention that I’ve spent more than a year drafting that proposal? ;-)). Jaap, I experienced a very similar feeling of simultaneous frustration and relief when we met to discuss my almost 100 pages long exposé on the agency/structure problem in IR and its implications on various power constellations in world politics. I was in my first year and you told me that I am trying to solve a “chicken and egg” problem and if I do manage, I’ll qualify for a Nobel. And although I haven’t deviated much from that very same “chicken and egg” problem to this day, I hope I have managed to pack it into a much more user-friendly framework. Without your valuable advice on theories and research design, without you questioning my ideas and argumentation, this would not have been possible. Peter and Jaap, I feel enormous respect for both of you as scholars. It was a privilege being your PhD student. Of course, my thanks also go to the reading committee – prof. dr. J. van der Harst, prof. dr. S. Miháliková, and prof. dr. J.Q.T. Rood – who have taken the time to read the final manuscript and have deemed it to be defendable. I have also been fortunate to receive support and advice from a number of other scholars, who have influenced my work.
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