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Best regards, Joerg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Joerg Balsiger Sent: Fri 2/15/2008 11:37 AM To: GEPED Subject: Panel Proposal: Fourth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics,25-27 September, Riga, Latvia Dear colleagues, As this may be of interest to graduate students, I'm taking the liberty of circulating a call for papers for a panel proposal on "EU politics and regional environmental initiatives" to be submitted for inclusion at the Fourth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, 25-27 September, Riga, Latvia. Panel Proposal: "EU politics and regional environmental initiatives" Conveners: Jörg Balsiger and Jon Marco Church Chair and Discussant: To be determined Formal and informal institution building in environmentally defined cross-border regions such as the European Alps, the Carpathian Mountains and the North and Baltic Seas has paralleled European integration for more than twenty years. Although the European Union has become party to corresponding legal agreements, including the Alpine Convention, the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic and, possibly, the Carpathian Convention, its role vis-à-vis environmental region building remains ambivalent. Financially, the EU has provided generous support through INTERREG and other programs; legally, its recent Water Framework Directive mandates water protection from the perspective of natural geographical and hydrological units rather than administrative and political boundaries; yet politically, the EU has frequently proved to be a reluctant or even recalcitrant partner, as reflected in various instances of EU opposition to Alpine integration. Against the background of this ambivalence, the panel's aim is to discuss new theoretical and empirical perspectives on the role of environmental regionalism in EU politics. In doing so, the panel also seeks to shed light on contested interpretations of 'multi-level governance' and 'variable geometry' as they apply to cross-border environmental protection and sustainable development. Two to three papers will be selected for inclusion in a proposal for the corresponding panel in Riga. Since the panel proposal will in turn be subject to a selection procedure, we cannot guarantee that it will be accepted. Deadline for Proposals: February 25, 2008 Contact and applications: Jörg Balsiger, European University Institute, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jon Marco Church, Université de Paris 1 - Centre de Recherches Politiques de la Sorbonne,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Best regards, Jörg Balsiger ------------------------------------------------ Max Weber Fellow European University Institute Villa La Fonte Via delle Fontanelle 10 I-50014 San Domenico di Fiesole Phone: +39-055 4685 681 Fax: +39 055 4685 804 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.eui.eu/Personal/Fellows/balsiger -------------------------------------------------
