New RECON newsletter

This issue of RECON’s newsletter contains comments by three researchers on the financial crisis, where European leaders are criticised for their handling of the financial crisis. Further, you can read more about the following topics: the RECON Online Working Paper Series soon will be available in EBSCO’s databases, a new RECON Report has been published, and RECON has received excellent review by project evaluators. You can also read about new RECON publications and summaries of RECON workshops in Berlin, Vienna and Krakow. Read more.



New RECON publications

A new RECON report and four new RECON Online Working Papers have been published. RECON report 11 contains the proceedings of the RECON midterm conference, and the new working papers cover the relationship between gender identity, feminism and democracy in the context of the EU, Kant’s idea of a voluntary league of states, Foucault’s governmentality approach and the Open Method of Coordination, and finally the mediatizing potential of the internet on the politics of European integration and the process of enhancing the democratic legitimacy of the EU. Read more.

 

RECON is a five-year research project with 21 partner institutions and more than 100 participating researchers across Europe and in New Zealand. RECON covers a wide range of academic fields, from political science, sociology, linguistics, and anthropology, to information science, law and legal theory, and economics.

RECON is coordinated by ARENA – Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo.

 

RECON is an Integrated Project supported by the Sixth Framework Programme for Research.

Project period: 1 January 2007 - 31 December 2011