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criminal law, international law and criminology as well as human rights centres) to allow a truly interdisciplinary
scientific dialog. Within the project framework three major issues are identified and
each HUMSEC work package will be dedicated to the report and the implementation of the state of
the art on one of this focal issues: a) the connection between transnational terrorist and criminal organisations
in the Western Balkan region; b) the influence on the state and society; c) the impact of
transnational terrorist and criminal organisations on the peace-building process of the region. Dissemination
of research for civil society and for future political leaders will be guaranteed through: the
publication of the working papers that will be presented at the network Annual Conferences on the
project website; the creation of a project related online journal, which will be published yearly; the
organisation of three summer academies which has the aim to present and discuss the results of the
Annual Conferences among young professionals and provide in this way the basis for capacity building
in the field of the project; the presentation of a state of the art book to summarize and present
the results of the network activities. Partner Institutions: European Training and Research Centre for
Human Rights and Democracy, Graz (ETC); Tilburg University; Munich Universtiy; Belgrade Centre
for Human Rights (BCHR); Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law,
Freiburg; University of Prishtina; Danish Center for International Studies and Human Rights
(DCISM); University of Montenegro; University of Sarajevo; University of Graz; University of Shkoder;
Portuguese Institute for International Relations and Security (IPRIS); University of Ljubljana;
University of Zagreb; Cardiff University; University of Toulouse. GEOGRAPHISCHER RAUM:
West-Balkan-Region
ART: AUFTRAGGEBER: keine Angabe FINANZIERER: Europäische Kommission
INSTITUTION: Universität München, Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für
Politische Wissenschaft Lehrstuhl für Internationale Politik (Oettingenstr. 67, 80538 München)
KONTAKT: Daase, Christopher (Prof.Dr. Tel. 089-2180-9050,
e-mail: christopher.daase@lrz.uni-muenchen.de); Kolliarakis, Georgios (Tel. 089-2180-9084,
e-mail: RabbitDuck@gsi.uni-muenchen.de)
[46-F] Kovats, Laszlo; Lass-Lennecke, Katja, Dipl.-Pol.; Werner, Annika, Dipl.-Pol. (Bearbeitung);
Goetz, Klaus H., Prof.Dr. (Leitung):
The politics of time: the temporality of EU enlargement and Europeanisation
INHALT: The politics of time are central to understanding modern governance. A vital feature of democracy
is the delegation of political power for a limited period of time by regular elections. This makes
political time a scarce resource. At national level, the electoral cycle structures the interplay between
government and opposition, influences legislative behaviour, and provides the basic parameters for
political manoeuvring over the temporal ordering of political activity. To a certain degree these observations
also hold true for the European Union (EU), but there are important differences to national
political systems in the temporal structuring of its activity. Against this background the project aims
at extending research on political time from the national to the European level by addressing the timescape
of the main EU institutions - namely the Council, the European Parliament, and the Commission
- and at analysing the consequences of its specifics on the policy-making process. In a first
step the project analyses the characteristics of political time in the EU by describing its intra- and inter-institutional
timescape. In a second step it classifies the functions of EU time rules. In a third step
the project asks how this specific timescape shapes policy-making. The focus here is on the temporal
structure of the EU enlargement policy towards Poland and the Slovak Republic (first CEE enlargement),
Bulgaria (second CEE enlargement), and Turkey. The problem of synchronicity and to what
extent the individual enlargement processes and EU timescape exert mutual influence are at the heart
of this part of the project. Advances in our understanding of the timescape of EU institutions will add
to the political science literature in two ways. First, it helps to understand and explain the setting, ordering,
and functioning of the EU. It also highlights the usage of time as a resource for tactical manoeuvring
in a complex polity. Second, it seeks to make a contribution to the comparative study of
political institutions and sheds light on the temporal structure as a central aspect of the institutionalisation
of national and supranational political systems. GEOGRAPHISCHER RAUM: EU
VERÖFFENTLICHUNGEN: keine Angaben ARBEITSPAPIERE: Goetz, Klaus H.: Temporality in the
European administrative space. Paper presented at the CONNEX Thematic Conference 'Towards a
European administrative space', London, 16-18 November 2006.+++Goetz, Klaus H.: The EU times-