Reflections on Democracy in Eastern Europe (5 author forum)

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2008

Promoting Democratic Values in the Enlarging Europe: …

2020

In a European Workshop, seventy-five citizens from Poland, France and Germany developed ideas and concrete proposals for Europe's future over two days. They then discussed the results of this work at the European Conference with Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and his Bulgarian colleague Ekaterina Zaharieva

International Studies Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2007

2013

When trying to identify the deeper roots and interconnectedness of different sorts of global financial, economic and debt crisis, the ecological crisis, the crisis of the EU and the Euro-zone, and most recently the crisis of democracy and legitimacy, the relationship between globalization and democracy needs more careful analysis. Trapped in the logic of the nationstate paradigm, political imagination and analysis remain largely restricted. Even if capable of recognizing problems, without adequate cognitive frames, the capacity to provide solutions or identify alternatives is lost. The identification of the deep roots and interconnectedness of different sorts of crisis (global, financial, economic and debt crisis, ecological crisis, the crisis of the EU and Eurozone, and the crisis of democracy and legitimacy) combined with the decline of public trust raises possibilites for new global and regional perspectives, and stepping out of the iron cage of the nation state. The crisis and transformation may open the way for de facto cosmopolitanism, but the path will be heavily conflict ridden.

2005

CEPS Working Documents are published to give an indication of the work within various research programmes at CEPS and to stimulate reactions from other experts in the field. Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed are attributable only to the authors in a personal capacity and not to any institution with which they are associated.

Centre Maurtis Coppieters and the European Free Alliance youth have compiled texts from more than 17 youth activists and academics to reflect upon the future of Europe and its emerging trends. Defining the concept of self-determination is not the easiest thing to do. The first article of the United Nations Charter, which defines self-determination has been applied to various extents in the recent history. A universal right – that is what the self-determination principle is. No more, no less! And just as with democracy, human rights, gender equality and sexual equality, there should be no limit to any universal right. Even if it were illegal, it would still remain a universal right. This collective work reflects upon those ideas from a youth perspective.