Background materials Course SOC465

                  ‘The Future of Europe in the Light of the Modernisation Process

                                            FSS MU, Brno

                                         October 9-13 2006

   

   Nota Bene: it is not required to read all this materials in advance. The articles and sites
   reflect the themes that will be discussed and may be used also for the paper you’ll write
   afterwards.

   

   Europe

   http://www.dissentmagazine.org/menutest/articles/su03/beck.htm

   Ulrich Beck. Understanding the real Europe

   

   http://www.utne.com/cgi-bin/udt/im.display.printable?client.id=utne&story.id=11349

   Jeremy Rifkin. The European Dream

   

   

   Citizenship, Civic Culture and Civil Society

   http://www.historiasiglo20.org/europe/ciudadeuropea.htm

   http://www.historiasiglo20.org/europe/ciudadunion.htm

   http://www.historiasiglo20.org/europe/ciudadident.htm

   European citizenship

   

   http://depts.washington.edu/gcp/pdf/globalcitizenship.pdf#search=%22%22condition%20of%20citizenship%22%22

   Taso Lagos. Global Citizenship. Towards a definition

   

   http://isce.edu/ISCE_Group_Site/web-content/ISCE%20Events/Christchurch_2005/Papers/Arias.pdf

   Alejandro Arias. Systemic thinking for civic practices

   

   http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/Nader.html

   Ralph Nader. Developing a Civic Culture

   

   http://www.opm.gov/extra/investigate/IS-01.pdf#search=%22%22condition%20of%20citizenship%22%22

   Citizenship Laws of the World

   

   http://www.osgf.ge/iccc/

   See also the site of the International center for Civic Culture

   

   http://www.infed.org/association/civil_society.htm

   Michael Edwards. Civil Society

   

   

   European Identity and European Culture

   http://www.sociology.org/content/vol002.003/delgado.html

   Juan Delgado. Cultural Citizenship and the Creation of European Identity

   

   http://users.belgacom.net/jacobs/europa.pdf#search=%22%22european%20identity%22%22

   Dirk Jacobs and Robert Maier. European Identity: Construct, Fact and Fiction

   

   http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/michalski_281004_final_report_en.pdf

   Karl Biedenkopf and others (EU reflectiongroup). The spiritual and cultural dimension of
   Europe

   

   

   Governance and accountability

   http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/com/cnc/2001/com2001_0428en01.pdf

   White Paper on European Governance, European Commission, Brussels, 2001

   

   

   http://europa.eu.int/comm/governance/governance_eu/index_en.htm

   A lot of information regarding the European Governance debate. You can follow the results of
   the actions following the publication of the white paper.

   

   http://www.connex-network.org/eurogov/pdf/egp-connex-C-06-02.pdf

   Carol Harlow and Richard Rawlings. Promoting accountability in multi level governance

   

   http://www.connex-network.org/eurogov/pdf/egp-connex-C-06-01.pdf

   Mark Bovens. Analysing and Assesing Public Accountability. A conceptual framework

   

   http://www.ps.au.dk/mkj/OngoingProjects_Materiale/FORMATConceptualizing.pdf

   A paper for those really interested in the scientific debate on state and state policy

   Anne Mette Kjaer a.o., Conceptualising State Capacity, Demstar Research Report No. 6,
   Department of Political Science, April 2002

   

   http://www.connex-network.org/

   See also the site of the network on European Governance

   

   

   Policy making

   http://www.mrsc.org/Publications/polmakpro.pdf

   A US guide on local policy making for local policy makers (in Washington). Although written in
   the context of one specific city and from an American perspective, it reflects the common
   basics of policmaking.

   

   http://www.policyhub.gov.uk/docs/betterpolicymaking.pdf

   An extensive casestudy and guidelines for policymaking from the UK knowledge center on
   policymaking

   

   also surf through their site http://www.policyhub.gov.uk

   

   

   Clash of Civilizations

   http://www.alamut.com/subj/economics/misc/clash.html

   S. Huntington. The Clash of civilizations (1993 article)

   

   http://jpr.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/39/6/711

   Giacomo Chiozza. Is there a clash of civilizations. Evidence from patterns of international
   conflict involvement

   

   http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=253

   The great divide. How Westerners and Muslims view eachother

   

   http://www.unaoc.org/aoc.php?page=15

   See also the UN-site: Alliance of civilizations

   

   

   Future studies

   http://www.csudh.edu/global_options/IntroFS.HTML#Intro/OverviewFS

   Linda Groff and Paul Smoker. Introduction to Future Studies

   

   http://www.futurestudies.co.uk/

   http://www.wfsf.org/

   http://www.futurestudies.org/

   See also the sites of the Center for Future Studies, the World Future Studies Federation and
   the Institute for Future Studies