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The study of religion and European integration: the state of the art -- Catholicism and European integration: a historical overview -- Institutions and embedded ideational orders -- Discourse of the Catholic Church and European integration -- Discourse of the European Union and the Catholic Church -- Competing ideational orders and EU politics

Die Studie untersucht auf innovative Weise Facetten der europäischen Integration, der zentrale Fokus liegt auf der Rolle der EU als internationaler Akteur. Vier Dimensionen dieser Rolle werden untersucht: Anerkennung, Attraktivität, Legitimation und Rahmung. Die Untersuchung geschieht sowohl auf theoretischer Ebene als auch durch vier empirische Fallstudien. Die Studie wendet sich sowohl an Praktiker als auch Wissenschaftler, die sich mit europäischer Integration befassen.

The religion–politics nexus has become a thriving field within the study of global politics. However, the fast development has translated only into a moderate diversification of the research. Building on Bourdieu's analysis of the social field, this paper argues that this limited pluralization is related to the strong heteronomy of the field. This heteronomy has three "concentric" sources - the dependence on the field of politics, the continued influence of the secularist bias of Western social science, and the dependence on the theoretical developments in the broader discipline of international relations. Methodologically, the article builds on a detailed analysis of eighteen top academic journals and their scholarly output related to religion in global politics.

This article explores the everyday political economy of the Catholic World Youth Day in Panama, which was organized in January 2019. The aim is to shed more light on the relationship between the market and the religious sphere and, in particular, on the everyday experience of the WYD participants, and their encounters with the market and market practices. In doing so, the article challenges several commonly held assumptions, such as the priority of religious doctrine over everyday practices and the belief that the religious sphere is one-sidedly colonized by the market. Instead, the article shows that in this case, the interactions between the church and the market played out differently in three different areas – the discursive critique of the market by the Church leaders, the Church's incorporation of market practices in its activities and the alliance between the local Catholic organizers and businesses. In the end, the complex interactions between the participants, businesses, discourses, spaces and technologies gave rise to a unique sacred-market network which blurred and at times entirely erased the difference between the religious sphere and the market.

Die EU hat wegen der Annexion der Krim und des verdeckten Kriegs gegen die Ukraine im Donbass Sanktionen gegen Russland verhängt. Obwohl Moskau die europäische Sicherheitsordnung weiter herausfordert, wird in der EU über eine Aufhebung der Sanktionen diskutiert. Die tschechische Debatte ist exemplarisch. Kurzfristige Wirtschaftsinteressen und Parteienkonkurrenz bestimmen das Denken. Präsident Zeman vertritt sogar offen die Moskauer Interpretation der Ereignisse in der Ukraine. Nur einige Transatlantiker und Befürworter einer werteorientierten Außenpolitik fordern ein schärferes Vorgehen gegen Russland. Konsens herrscht bei der großen Mehrheit der Tschechen lediglich in einem: Prag soll sich aus der Krise heraushalten. (Osteuropa (Berlin) / SWP)

The study deals with public space both as a physical phenomenon and social phenomenon. It defines its fundamental meaning by referring to the works of sociologists Richard Sennett and Hans Paul Bahrdt: The public space offers the opportunity to meet other people, confront the differences, and at the same time it is a place where we can strengthen social solidarity and mutual respect. The study briefly mentions the development of public spaces in Czech towns at the time of communist regime. However in the first instance it shows selected current works to document the attempts to express the openness of democratic society after 1989 and the new arrangements of public spaces. Evaluation of the development during the recent years shows both positive and negative aspects: On one side it is a sensitive reconstruction of previously neglected public spaces in historical centres of towns and several completely new spaces in other town quarters, on the other side it is too strong commercialisation of these spaces, their submission to tourism, and the lack of interesting public spaces in the places of everyday life of the inhabitants and in newly developing areas of towns. The increasing interest of professional community and general public in the quality of public space, as well as attempts to make the care for public spaces a substantial part of municipal strategies in some cities give a hope for the future.