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Mai 2012
Workshop hosted by Maastricht Centre for European Law
Maastricht Faculty of Law, Minderbroedersberg 4-6,
6211 LK Maastricht, The Netherlands (Room B 0.115)
Supported by the Van Gogh programme & Universiteitsfons Limburg
BACKGROUND
The aim of this workshop is to analyze the resistances – coming notably from the Member States – against the development of an EU human rights regime (as they were manifest, for instance, in conflicts surrounding the drafting of the EU Charter of fundamental rights or during the adoption of anti-discrimination directives) and the reluctance of Member States to actually implement these rights (as is illustrated, at national level, by the presence of multiple administrative obstacles making it hard for civil society organisations to actually use these rights). The project intends to highlight the question of the increasing tensions between the emergence of a EU human rights regime and national sovereignties, in a context where value conflicts between the EU and Member States are becoming more frequent (as illustrated, for instance, by the Roma issue in France or the current authoritarian evolution of the Hungarian government). In the view of the on-going negotiations for the European Union’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights, specific attention will be devoted to resistances targeted against this closely related system for the protection of fundamental rights in Europe.
Séminaire : 'Acteurs politiques et sociaux en ex URSS",
Salle du CEVIPOL, S 12 227
44 avenue Jeanne,
B 1050 Bruxelles
12h15-14h
renseignements : amerlin@ulb.ac.be
Juin 2012
Room Kant
IEE, 39 avenue Roosevelt, 1050 Bruxelles
Séminaire L’intégration européenne au-delà des institutions : cultures, sociétés, discours/European integration beyond institutions : cultures, societies, discourses
Séminaire CEVIPOL-IEE 2011-2012
Amandine Crespy, François Foret
(acrespy@ulb.ac.be; fforet@ulb.ac.be)
Ce séminaire est organisé avec le soutien de l'Université Libre de Bruxelles, de la Faculté des sciences sociales et politiques, de l'Isntitut d'Etudes Européennes, du Département de science politique, de l'Académie Wallonie-Bruxelles et des Écoles doctorales en science politique et études européennes de la Communauté française de Belgique
Septembre 2012
The ULB and the VUB are organising jointly the 22nd Standing Group Summer School on Political Parties.
The Summer School will be held from 10 September until 22 September 2011.
Faculty for the 2011 School include Daniele Caramani (St Gallen), Susan Scarrow (Houston), Stefaan Walgrave (Antwerp), Kris Deschouwer (Brussels), Emilie van Haute (Brussels), Jean-Benoit Pilet (Brussels), David Farrell (Manchester), Vello Pettai (Tartu), Romain Lachat (Barcelona), Nonna Mayer (Paris), Kenneth Carty (UBC Vancouver).
Novembre 2012
Old topics and new research agenda in comparative politics
Université libre de Bruxelles
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences
November 2012, 9 &10
Deadline for proposals: June 30, 2012
The Centre d’Etude de la Vie Politique (CEVIPOL) of the Faculty of Social and Political Science of the Université libre de Bruxelles, in collaboration with the Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, is organizing an international conference entitled: Is Central and Eastern Europe still specific? Old topics, new research agenda in comparative politics.
Over the past twenty years, Central and Eastern Europe has been a fertile ground for political and sociological research. The fall of communism and the development of new democratic regimes held the attention of scholars, who have seen these countries as a perfect laboratory for comparative and single-case studies (Evans and Whitefield 1993; Mair 1997; van Biezen 2003; Millard 2004; Webb and White 2007). The democratic consolidation and accession of these countries to the European Union (EU) lead to numerous interrogations on the dynamics and structure of Eastern European political life. At first, Central and Eastern Europe was analyzed by scholars as a specific entity. After a decade, many authors have started to include this region in a common “European” framework, regardless of regional particularities (Birch 2001; Sitter 2002; Whitefield 2009; Hlousek and Kopecek 2010). EU membership certified the success of a long process of institutional adaptation, political and economic reforms which have transformed these countries and brought them closer to Western democracies. Strong efforts were made in order to ensure political and social pluralism and the respect of human rights in the framework of liberal democracy. Nevertheless, regarding democratic consolidation, many authors have observed symptoms of what Schedler (1998) called “democratic erosion” in this region. Hungary under the Orban government is an emblematic example. Europeanization has also proved to have limited effects on the functioning of institutions and the overall adoption of new rules and regulations (Hughes, Sasse 2004; Haughton 2007, Coman 2009). Furthermore, most political parties have remained weak and under institutionalized actors, some of them even quite short-lived (Szeczerbiak et al., 2008, Sikk and Hanley, 2011). Moreover, all these developments influenced the way the countries of the region perceive and use the European Union in their daily politics, but also in what concerns the (re)construction of the image of themselves and their nation (Ilonszki, 2010; Neumayer, 2011; Henderson, 2011; Ichijo and Spohn, 2005).
That is why today we can consider this region either as specific and worth a singular study or as integrated in a common European framework but showing some particular features.
In order to tackle these issues the organizers of this conference address the following questions:
What are the cumulative effects of the simultaneous processes of democratic consolidation and Europeanization? What are the effects of the post-communism and of the indigenous factors?
Is there still a particular pattern in the development of these countries?
Are the “deviant cases” still deviant and the “front runners” still performing well?
In order to answer these empirical and theoretical questions, the conference is focused on three main dimensions:
- political and judicial institutions
- political parties and trade unions
- domestic discourse about the quality of democracy, nationalism and European Union/Europe
The conference will take place on November 9 and 10, 2012, at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.
Abstracts of maximum 500 words (including full name of authors, title, and institutional affiliation) should be sent to conference.cevipol@ulb.ac.be on June 30 at the latest. Specialists of Central and Eastern European politics and societies interested in the conference are invited to submit contributions proposing original theoretical approaches and/or comparative works or case studies.
Scientific committee:
Jean-Michel de Waele, professor in political science
Ramona Coman, assistant professor in political science
Olivier Paye, professor in political science
Blagovesta Cholova, teaching assistant
Julien Danero Iglesias, teaching assistant
Maïté Leroy, teaching assistant
Fanny Sbaraglia, teaching assistant
Slavina Spasova, teaching assistant