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In this blog post, I draw on Norwegian experiences in arguing that there should be a second referendum on Brexit.
This paper draws upon the narrative element in academic accounts of Europeanisation as a story of social change and integration, and takes a discursive approach to analyzing Europeanisation. It explores variants of Europeanisation as a form of social imagination of the unity and diversity of a European society, and examines four interrelated processes in the narrative construction of European society.
ARENA Working Paper 7/2014 (pdf)
Hans-Jörg Trenz
This paper investigates the EU's 2008 decision to launch a maritime, military operation - NAVFOR Somalia/Operation Atalanta - off the Somali coast, as opposed to extending the NATO operation that was already in the area. Riddervold suggests a two phase analysis, drawing on communicative action-, and neo-realist theory.
ARENA Working Paper 4/2014 (pdf)
Marianne Riddervold
In May 2005 the Norwegian government signed an agreement to contribute troops to the European Union’s so-called battle groups. These are integrated military forces that are at the disposal of the European Union for a period of 6 months at a time. How can we account for such a decision to provide a permanent military contribution to an integrated force that stands at the disposal of a Union that Norway is not part of?
ARENA Working Paper 2/2012 (pdf)
Helene Sjursen
In this article, we critically discuss the issues of discursive quality and democratic legitimacy in deliberative experiments taking place in a transnational and pluri-lingual setting.
ARENA Working Paper 12/2011 (pdf)
Espen D. H. Olsen and Hans-Jörg Trenz
In this paper, the authors confront some commonly held assumptions and objections with regard to the feasibility of deliberation in a transnational and plurilingual setting. To illustrate their argument, they rely on a solid set of both quantitative and qualitative data from Europolis, a transnational deliberative experiment that took place one week ahead of the 2009 European Parliamentary elections.
ARENA Working Paper 9/2011 (pdf)
Irena Fiket, Espen D. H. Olsen, Hans-Jörg Trenz