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Justifying and communicating eastward enlargement: enthusiasm, disappointment and pragmatism from the perspective of the European Commission, 1989-2004

Zur Rechtfertigung und Vermittlung der Osterweiterung: Enthusiasmus, Enttäuschung und Pragmatismus aus der Perspektive der Europäischen Kommission 1989-2004
[working paper]

Blanco Sío-López, Cristina

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to study the induction of collective time perceptions by EU institutional actors to implement politically and economically motivated long-term projects through internal and external communicative actions. Within the different cases and periods analysed, I will spe... view more

The main objective of this paper is to study the induction of collective time perceptions by EU institutional actors to implement politically and economically motivated long-term projects through internal and external communicative actions. Within the different cases and periods analysed, I will specifically explore the perspective of the European Commission in EU's Eastward enlargement internal and external communication narratives from 1989 to 2004, the year of the actual enlargement project implementation. I have chosen to examine the question of the induction of forced transitional time perceptions in the process of enlargement from the perspective of European Commission actors because they assumed they were the self-appointed motor of the EU's Eastward enlargement process. In sum, this paper aims at opening the debate on the issue of the relationship of change in history with the opposition between the determinism of rules presented as timeless in a constantly extended present and the consideration of new principles once the perspective of a different future is suddenly open.... view less

Keywords
Europe; political change; European Commission; political communication; legitimation; political actor; joining the European Union; eastwards expansion; European Policy; European integration; political development

Classification
European Politics

Method
descriptive study

Free Keywords
European Commission; eastward enlargement; communication strategy, Central and Eastern Europe; time perception; history of European integration; Critical Discourse Analysis

Document language
English

Publication Year
2008

City
Berlin

Page/Pages
16 p.

Series
Working Paper Series of the Research Network 1989, 13

Status
Published Version; reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works


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