Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Stanivuković Senka Neuman
    Territoriality is in the Eyes of the Beholder. Untangling The Nation-State from Below with a Little Help from Above
    in Europe en formation (L') , n. 363, 2012/1 ,  2012 ,  219-233
    The post-communist transition has placed Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) and the Western Balkans into a schizophrenic condition of concurrent consolidation and dissolution of the nation-state. While they did their outmost to consolidate their nation-state after years of struggle for sovereignty, they lost a part of their sovereignty during the process of EU accession. This hasty shift from a Westphalian to a post-Westphalian order was certainly not spared of its difficulties. In view of that, this paper studies changes in the domestic perception of state territoriality in the context of EU accession. More specifically, it asks to what extent and how l’Europe of the Regions, as a normative discursive formation, resonated in Croatian policy discourse on regionalization. By utilizing a discursive reading of Europeanization, this paper looks beyond conditionality-based analysis to account for horizontal norm dispersion and norm domestication via discursive framing. Ultimately, it puts doubt on the maxims established by the studies on regionalization through the accession of the CEECs.
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