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Application for ERPA membership
1. Name of the series
KFG Working Paper Series
2. URL for the series
http://www.polsoz.fuberlin.de/en/v/transformeurope/publications/working_paper/index.html
3. Contact Person with e-mail address
Farina Ahäuser: ahaeuser@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Corinna Blutguth: blutguth@zedat.fu-berlin.de
4. Short Description of the overall content of papers published in the series
The KFG Working Paper Series serves to disseminate the research results of the Kolleg-
Forschergruppe to a wide audience, including academia and the general public. It means
to enhance academic exchange as well as to strengthen and broaden existing basic research
on internal and external diffusion processes in Europe and the European Union
(EU).
Diverse scientific branches such as political and social science, law, history, or economics
are taken into account and interweaved, identifying different mechanisms for the diffusion
of ideas that result in various degrees of social change and transformation.
The authors analyze the EU as an agent of political, social, economic, legal, and cultural
change inside and outside of Europe, as well as a recipient of global diffusion processes.
The Working Paper Series covers the KFG’s three research areas:
1. Identity and the Public Sphere:
In regard to the first research area, the Working Papers are engaged with questions of
how the diffusion of ideas through and by the European Union affects collective identities
and their Europeanization. Transnational public discourses as well as the incorporation
of Europe and the EU in the collective identities of new member states are of concern.
The consequences of Europeanized public spheres for the diffusion of ideas in Europe
and beyond are explored. Another focus is on European-wide transnational discourses
and controversies as sites in which European identities are constructed and contested.
2. Compliance, Conditionality, and Beyond:
Moreover, the KFG Working Papers examine adaptation problems of ideas promoted by
the EU, both for its member states and third countries. Providing empirical and theoreti-

cal findings, questions regarding the influence of European ideas on politicaladministrative,
economic, social and cultural institutions of nation-states within and outside
the EU and the conditions fostering and retracting the diffusion of these ideas are
researched.
3. Comparative Regionalism and Europe’s External Relations:
Working Papers focusing on the third research area are engaged with the European intent
to promote regionalism and the development of genuine (intra-) regional economic
and political cooperation, the building of issue-related regimes, and the creation of joint
institutions for consultation and decision-making in the European neighborhood and
world-wide. The effects of these efforts of diffusing regionalism, their perception by other
actors and reactions to them are analyzed.
5. Description of the editing institution
The Kolleg-Forschergruppe is an interdisciplinary research college funded by the German
Research Foundation. Founded in 2008, it is headed by two directors, Prof. Dr.
Tanja A. Börzel and Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse, and supported by several high-ranking participating
scholars from the Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt Universität, the Hertie
School of Governance and the University of Potsdam. Bringing together national and
international competences on research related to Europe and the processes of diffusion,
it institutionalizes cooperation with other universities and research institutions. The invitation
of top senior and junior fellows as guest scholars creates the possibility to expand
the expertise of the research college in the fields of law, sociology, and history. With its
sabbatical program and its (post-) doctoral fellowships, the KFG provides its members
the optimal environment and time for intensive research and theory development, as well
as for a lively and critical exchange of ideas and opinions.
Website: http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/v/transformeurope/index.html
6. Description of the reviewing system
The reviewing process comprises an internal and an external peer review, during which
papers submitted for publication have to pass three different stages.
As a first step of the internal review, the draft paper is presented to the Research College’s
colloquium. The paper will be discussed by one of the College’s fellows or participating
scholars, who is knowledgeable in the relevant field. Moreover, all fellows and
visiting scholars are invited to participate in an open discussion and to provide recommendations
and advice on further improvements.

After a subsequent revision by the author, the paper is sent to the KFG’s directors, Prof.
Dr. Tanja A. Börzel and Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse, who critically review it, comment on it
and provide additional suggestions and advice for amendments. Afterwards, the author is
given the chance to read through (and comment on) the suggestions and revise his/her
Working Paper accordingly.
After having checked the revisions, the directors identify an independent, external reviewer
affiliated with the Research College, who holds expertise or prominence in the
pertinent subject area. An anonymous, double-blind reviewing process is applied. Critique,
suggestions for modification and opinions on the paper are supplemented by further
comments of the directors and remitted to the author, who incorporates the advice
and criticism into the draft.
The final decision about the publication of a paper lies with the research directors.
The reviewing is followed by an editorial process. Readability and the compliance with
scientific standards are checked in close collaboration with the author. Each paper is
formatted to fit the publication style, editorial policy and corporate design of the Working
Paper Series.
7. Number of papers already published/Number of papers expected to be published
annually
2009:
WP 1: The Transformative Power of Europe: The European Union and the Diffusion of
Ideas (Tanja A. Börzel, Thomas Risse)
WP 2: EU Administrative Conditionality and Domestic Downloading: The Limits of Europeanization
in Challenging Contexts (Arolda Elbasani)
WP 3: Neighbourhood Europeanization through ENP: The Case of Ukraine (Andrea
Gawrich, Inna Melnykovska, Rainer Schweickert)
WP 4: Bringing the Mass Media in: The Contribution of the Mass Media for Understanding
Citizens' Attitudes towards the European Union (Silke Adam)
WP 5: Structuring the European Administrative Space: Channels of EU Penetration and
Mechanisms of National Change (Eva G. Heidbreder)
WP 6: The Asymmetry of European Integration or why the EU cannot be a "Social Market
Economy" (Fritz W. Scharpf)
WP 7: Diffusing (Inter-) Regionalism: The EU as a Model of Regional Integration (Tanja
A. Börzel, Thomas Risse)

WP 8: How European Protest Transforms Institutions of the Public Sphere: Discourse
and Decision-Making in the European Social Forum Process (Nicole Doerr)
WP 9: EU Democracy Promotion in the Mediterranean. Cooperation against All Odds?
(Vera van Hüllen)
2010:
WP 10: Europe as a Symbolic Resource. On the Discursive Space of Political Struggles
in Poland (Artur Lipiński)
WP 11: The Transformative Power of Europe Reloaded: The Limits of External Europeanization
(Tanja A. Börzel)
WP 12: A New Society in the Making: European Integration and European Social Groups
(Juan Díez Medrano)
WP 13: How International Law Standards Pervade Discourse on the Use of Armed
Force: Insights into European and US Newspaper Debates between 1990 and 2005
(Swantje Renfordt)
WP 14: Unpacking the Compliance Puzzle. The Case of Turkey‘s AKP under EU Conditionality
(Beken Saatçioglu)
WP 15: The Emergence of a European Community of Communication: Insights from
Empirical Research on the Europeanization of Public Spheres (Marianne van de Steeg,
Thomas Risse)
WP 16: Emotions, Media Discourse and the Mobilization of Citizens: Conceptual Considerations
and a Plausibility (Marianne van de Steeg)
WP 17: Do Regional Organizations Travel? European Integration, Diffusion and the Case
of ASEAN (Anja Jetschke)
WP 18: Post-Accession Conditionality: Support Instrument for Continuous Pressure? (Eli
Gateva)
WP 19: How European is European Identity? Extent and Structure of Continental Identification
in Global Comparison Using SEM (Jochen Roose)
WP 20: Networks, Courts and Regional Integration. Explaining the Establishment of the
Andean Court of Justice (Osvaldo Saldías)
WP 21: Democray and Legitimacy in the European Union Revisited: Input, Output and
Throughput (Vivien Schmidt)

WP 22: Patterns of Power. The EU‘s External Steering Techniques at Work - The Case
of Democratization Policies in Morocco (David Budde, Mathias Großklaus)
2011:
WP 23: Is There A Puzzle? Compliance with Minority Rights in Turkey (1999-2010)
(Gözde Yilmaz)
WP 24: Policy Matters But How? Explaining Non-Compliance Dynamics in the EU (Tanja
A. Börzel/Tobias Hofman/Diana Panke)
Papers expected to be published annually: 10 -15