{"id":1925,"date":"2009-07-10T09:38:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T09:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.iask.hu\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2020-03-19T11:16:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T10:16:12","slug":"crisis-european-construction-need-european-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.iask.hu\/en\/the-crisis-of-european-construction-and-the-need-for-a-european-civil-society\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crisis of European Construction and the need for a European Civil Society"},"content":{"rendered":"

I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS, PLAN-D AND CIVIL SOCIETY<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Role of Academia Reconsidered<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this new epoch of rapid social change, globalization, integration and disintegration, the two\u00a0terrains and mindsets (academic theory and policymaking) should not be separated from each\u00a0other on the basis of Weberian rigour. The social sciences should deliver useful ideas, praxis-oriented\u00a0approaches and methodologies for decision makers and those who implement policy.\u00a0This is true in the case of civil society research as well. If a concept proves to be so pertinent\u00a0and resistant to all kinds of attempts to denigrate, marginalize and out right burial, it deserves\u00a0the attention of both theoretical and practical minds.<\/p>\n

After discovering and rediscovering its historic roots, interpreting and reinterpreting its\u00a0emergence in different times, cultural contexts and geopolitical settings, social scientists have\u00a0to be able to build bridges between their historical-theoretical terrains and the practical\u00a0problems, challenges and complexities of our present and rapidly changing world.\u00a0Rapid change and the new social demands that change provokes are not going to leave the\u00a0conventional bastions of knowledge\u2013production intact. Even if we are aware that universities\u00a0and academic centers are among the most conservative of institutions, they should contribute\u00a0to the accumulation of new types of knowledge.<\/p>\n

But change is not restricted to just academic structures and scopes and methodologies of\u00a0research. Academics, research institutes and universities need to reconsider their roles and\u00a0raison d\u2019etre<\/em>\u00a0in an increasingly globalized, transnational and networking world. Politicians,\u00a0the decision-making and implementing bureaucracies, representatives of the sphere of public\u00a0governance also need to listen more carefully to the changing expectations and demands of\u00a0societies, larger or smaller constituencies and their organizations, movements and networks.\u00a0They also need to be able to formulate clearer messages and more accountable promises. In\u00a0order to do so, they themselves must reach a deeper understanding of the changing realities\u00a0and concepts they use to describe them.<\/p>\n

Concepts used for slogans can be helpful in the short run to create illusions or can positively\u00a0influence public mood temporarily but they usually backfire if substance is lacking and\u00a0misperceptions are revealed.<\/p>\n

Today in Europe civil society is preeminent among the most frequently used and misused\u00a0concepts in political and public debates. It can create confusion and frustration not only\u00a0among philosophers and social scientists but even more among social activists and authorities,\u00a0not only at the domestic and local levels, but at the transnational, European and global levels\u00a0as well.<\/p>\n

The present crisis of the EU, related to the failure of the process of constitutionalization, is a\u00a0good example. From the mid 1990s on, there was a growing concern within the leading\u00a0institutions of the EU about the future of the integration and enlargement processes. Faced by\u00a0a mounting pressure from globalization and from Eastern enlargement, leading politicians,\u00a0experts and think tanks looked for new concepts and solutions to replace or enrich the old\u00a0methods of integration.<\/p>\n

Read more on the\u00a0Institute for Social and European Studies website.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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