Development paths are constructed by
historians when they in retrospect, analyse what has happened. Cultural and historical heritages play a role but in what direction they affect actions is an open question. With a focus on politics and practices of immigration, the project explored the role of culture and traditions in the meeting with the immigrats, comparing how four national administrations developed practices in response to the same problem and the same rule-setting framework.
At border checkpoints, political and military power merge and the state monopoly of violence is made evident to those who intend to pass and those just standing by. There, the territory is demarcated, and this demarcation is enforced; enlightenment ideas of universal freedom and equality are shattered, and there is little rational justification for why the jurisdiction of one state should end and another begin. Why not one or twenty meters to the right or left? The seminar series at EUI 2001-2002 organized by James Kaye, Willfried Spohn, Bo Stråth and Anna Triandafyllidou was a forum for the EU framework programme projects IAPASIS and EURONAT.
Here are seminars at the EUI 2001-2005 within the working group The Economy as a Polity established by Christian Joerges, Bo Stråth and Peter Wagner and the research project Modernity of Europe directed by Stråth and Wagner.
In Search of a Political Economy for Europe Lars Magnusson, Bo Stråth (eds.), From the Werner Plan to the EMU, In Search of a Political Economy for Europe. Work and Society No. 29. P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Brussels 2001 Abstract The aim of this book is to explore the...
Here three conferences 1999-2001 about media and history. The conferences discussed among others the impact of digital and visual technologies on the preconditions of academic history writing and the possibilities of representation.
These two workshops in 2001 discussed the tension between state sovereignty and the image of a universal order transcending state borders that has been a constant of international relations in Europe, oscillating between peace and war. They also reflected on the legitimacy of military interventions in the name of an international community whose future legal status and structures are still indeterminate.
Here are six conferences and workshops 1996-2001 on time in history writing. They investigate the connections between the past, the future, and the present, and between continuities and discontinuities in the exploration and explanation of history.
Bo Stråth (ed.), Europe and the Other, Europe as the Other. Multiple Europes No. 10. P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Brussels 2000 4th ed 2010 Abstract This book contributes to the debate on what Europe means by demonstrating the complexities and contradictions inherent in the...
Historical Patterns in Europe and Beyond Bo Stråth (ed.), Myth and Memory in the Construction of Community, Historical Patterns in Europe and Beyond. Multiple Europes No. 9. P.I.E.-Peter Lang, Brussels 2000 Abstract Across and beyond Europe, history is being...
European Discourses on Work and Flexibility Bo Stråth (ed.), After Full Employment. European Discourses on Work and Flexibility. PIE-Peter Lang, Brussels 2000 Abstract The framework of this book is the structural mass unemployment and social marginalisation that...
