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Kolleg- Forscher Gruppe Newsletter Issue 02 | 2010 Kolleg-Forschergruppe Ihnestr. 26 14195 Berlin www.transformeurope.eu [email protected] +49 – 30 83 85 70 31 Editorial Staff: Sasan Abdi Toshiya Izumo Max Midekke Julia Stark Astrid Roos Headlines International Conference The Kolleg-Forschergruppe organizes an international conference on “The Diffusion of Regional Integration”, taking place in Berlin in December 2010. Page. 4 New colleagues at the KFG We are pleased to announce that Prof. Gary Marks, Prof. Liesbet Hooghe and Prof. David Levi-Faur have joined the Kolleg-Forschergruppe. Page. 5 DAAD to support the BTS The Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies secured project funding of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Page. 6 Book Recommendation In A Community of Europeans?, Thomas Risse evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres. Page. 7 Kolleg- Forscher Gruppe Security Cooperation in the EU Which direction are security cooperations in the EU taking? A keynote speech by Prof. Jolyon Horworth, former KFG Senior Fellow. Page. 8 EU Economic Solidarity Prof. Vivien Schmidt, former KFG Senior Fellow, discusses the aftermath of the “Greek Crisis”. Page. 10 Research Experience Prof. Christiane Eilders about her stay at the KFG and European identity between communication- and political science. Page. 12 Who is afraid of Black-Red-Gold? Prof. Jürgen Gerhards presents insights into the German patriotism during the World Cup 2006. Page. 14 KFG Autumn Schedule 2010 An overview presenting the ongoing activities and events of the Kolleg- Forschergruppe. Page. 16 About the Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) The diffusion of ideas has become a central research theme in political science, sociology, law, history, and economics. In this context, the Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) focuses on how ideas are spread across time and space, as can be observed especially in the European Union in various socio-political fields. The Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) is a new funding program launched by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft – DFG) in 2008. As a Research College, it is intended to provide a scientifi- cally stimulating environment in which inno-vative research topics can be dealt with by discourse and debate within a small group of senior and junior researchers. The Transformative Power of Europe | www.transformeurope.eu Editorial Dear friends and colleagues of the Kolleg-Forschergruppe, Welcome, once again, to our Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) “The Transformative Power of Europe”! This is our altogether fourth newsletter informing you about what is going on at the KFG. Here are some highlights of what has happened since spring: This fall, the third group of post-doctoral fellows has arrived, selected from Prof. Tanja A. Börzel & Prof. Thomas Risse more than 60 applicants. We look forward to working with them. Moreover, a special welcome to Profs. Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks (both from the Uni- versity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and David Levi-Faur (Hebrew University Jerusalem) who will spend the coming year at the KFG! Profs. Hooghe and Marks have worked extensively on multi-level governance and will contribute to our focus on comparative regionalism, while David Levi-Faur has done remarkable work on policy diffusion and on regulatory agencies. The KFG’s focus so far has been on norm and rule transfers within the EU and beyond, on European identity, European public sphere and on comparative regionalism. As to norm and rule transfers, Tanja Börzel and Carina Sprungk are currently summarizing major findings in a book on compliance with EU law. As to European identity, Thomas Risse’s new book A Community of Europeans? just came out with Cornell University Press (see abstract below; see also the contributions of Christiane Eilders and Jürgen Gerhards in this newsletter). Work on a European public sphere continues at the KFG, with Marianne van de Steeg and Thomas Risse working on an edited volume devoted to stock-taking and to exploring new frontiers of research. The EU’s norm and rule transfer beyond its borders is the subject of a special issue of West European Politics on “When Europeanization Travels” and its limits will be explored in a book Tanja Börzel plans to work on next year. European identity and European public sphere and EU norm and rule transfer will be continued in the framework of the KFG, but increasingly within a larger context of comparative regionalism which is quickly becoming a major focus of the KFG’s activities (see programme at the end of this newsletter). This includes our second international conference to be held in Berlin in December 2010. As last year, we issued an international call for papers, and once again, we were overwhelmed by the response of almost 90 applications for about 20 slots in the program. In the meantime, we had to say goodbye to Vivien Schmidt and Jolyon Howorth. Vivien led several work- shops on “discursive institutionalism” at the KFG bringing together scholars working on the role of language and discourses. Vivien was back at the KFG this October for an international workshop on “The Single Currency and European Citizenship” which she co-organized with Giovanni Moro from the FONDACA foundation and the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence “Europe and its Citizens”. Vivien’s contribution in this newsletter focuses on economic solidarity and the financial crisis. Jolyon Howorth introduced us to the EU’s foreign and security policy as an (often failing) attempt to diffuse European ideas across the globe (or not). See his piece in this newsletter! As you can see from this brief report, the Kolleg-Forschergruppe continues to be an active and extremely lively center of activities in EU studies. We hope that you enjoy reading this newsletter. Best regards, Tanja A. Börzel Thomas Risse Research Directors 3 The Transformative Power of Europe | www.transformeurope.eu KFG-Conference on “The Diffusion of Regional Integration” Berlin, December 10–11, 2010 The Kolleg-Forschergruppe (KFG) “Transformative regions of the world and exploring to what extent Power of Europe” organizes an international con- external models of regional cooperation – whether ference on “The Diffusion of Regional Integration” from the EU, the U.S. or other external actors – are which will be held on December 10–11, 2010 in being referred to, adopted, adjusted to and trans- Berlin. lated into regional circumstances, or resisted and challenged. The conference will have three major themes around which the panels will be organized: A detailed program of the conference is available here (PDF). The official language of the conference 1. Comparing Regional Integration: Divergence will be English. or Convergence? Since the end of the Cold War, regional cooperation We kindly ask you to use the registration form and integration has significantly increased, even if available online to register for the conference until we discard the ever growing number of regional 27. November the latest. With our confirmation free trade agreements, of which the vast majority you will receive a password that will allow you to is not truly regional. We invite papers analyzing download the conference papers from our website institutional forms and patterns of multilateral in advance once available. For more information cooperation and integration among contiguous please contact Ina Nordwald (transform-europe@ countries. Papers engaging in cross-regional com- fu-berlin.de). parisons are particularly welcome. Famous Last Words 2. Exporting Regional Integration: The European Union as Promoter of Regional Integration I am truly grateful for a wonder- ful year at Kolleg-Forscher- Regional cooperation is part of the governance gruppe. It is not so common that one is fortunate enough package the EU seeks to export through its external to enjoy teaching-free time for relations with third countries and regions. We look a whole year right after grad school. It is fair to say that I was for papers that explore what exactly the EU seeks among the “lucky few” to ben- to promote in terms of regional integration and to efit from KFG’s research-friendly environment! Our weekly what extent it has been successful in transplanting seminars helped me develop (part of) its model in other parts of the world. Dr. Beken Saatcioglu new ideas on the “transforma- tive power of Europe” and many Dr. Beken Saatcioglu other issues. So, many thanks 3. Importing Regional Integration: Adoption, Postdoc KFG to Tanja, Thomas, the fellows Oct. 2009–Jul. 2010 and the KFG staff for making it Translation, Resistance Now post-doctoral all happen! This was a year defi- researcher at the Institute nitely worth remembering. The receiving end of the EU’s efforts at exporting for European Integration regional cooperation has received less attention so Research, Austrian Acad- far. We invite papers concentrating on particular emy of Sciences, Vienna. 4 The Transformative Power of Europe | www.transformeurope.eu New colleagues Prof. Garry Marks Gary Marks is Profes sor of Political Science at the at the KFG University of North Carolina We are pleased to announce that three (UNC), Chapel Hill and new senior fellows have joined the Kolleg- Prof. Garry Marks founding Director of the UNC Forschergruppe. Prof. Garry Marks Center for European Studies. Professor Marks has been Prof. Liesbet Hooghe National Fellow at the Hoover Institution (1986–87) and fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Liesbet Hooghe is a compara- the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 1991–92, tivist with an IR and pub- and Visiting Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum lic administration / public Berlin für Sozialforschung in 2002–03. He has held poli cy bent. She is Zachary visiting professorships at Sciences Politiques, Paris Taylor Smith Professor at (2002), Konstanz University, Germany (2000) as Prof. Liesbet Hooghe UNC Chapel Hill and Chair well as at the University of Twente, the Netherlands in Multi-Level Governance (1998).
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