Maciej Kisilowski on Central Europe’s Strategy in the Age of Trump

Network member Maciej Kisilowski (CEU) has alerted us to his timely new post on Euractiv.com, entitled Central Europe’s Strategy in the Age of Trump. The first three paragraphs are below and the remainder can be read here.

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The United States has just elected Donald Trump, the candidate who openly questioned the future of NATO and the need to honour America’s commitments to its allies, who publicly complimented leadership skills of Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. With Brexit and the rise of right-wing parties ahead of the Austrian, Italian, French, Dutch and German ballots, our Western allies seem poised to venture into the “Trump Age.”

Too many times in Central Europe’s history, our elites, consumed by internal infighting, were surprised by a rapid deterioration of the international environment. We should not repeat that mistake.

While we must continue to defend the historically beneficial transatlantic order, we should also prepare our governmental institutions for the eventuality of that order weakening significantly or even disintegrating completely. [continue reading here]

Video: Jan-Werner Müller, "Could there be a Dictatorship inside the EU? On Mandates and Limits for Supranational Militant Democracy"

We missed this initially, but network member Daniela Caruso (BU) recently alerted us to the Conference on Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe, held at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College on October 18.  The conference may still be of interest to readers because the keynote was given by network member Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton) and was entitled "Could there be a Dictatorship inside the EU? On Mandates and Limits for Supranational Militant Democracy". The conference overview and the video can be accessed here. Enjoy.

Call for Papers (Deadline Dec 15, 2013): Central European Judges under the EU Influence

Network member Matej Avebelj (Graduate School of Government and European Studies, Kranj, Solvenia) has passed on the call for papers for the conference at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy on May 12-13, 2014.  The topic of the conference is 'Central European Judges under the EU Influence: The Transformative Power of Europe Revisited on the 10th Anniversary of Enlargement'. More details can be found below.

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Central European Judges under the EU Influence:

The Transformative Power of Europe Revisited

on the 10th Anniversary of the Enlargement

Date: May 12-13, 2014
Venue: European University Institute, Florence

Organisers: European University Institute, Centre for Judicial Cooperation and College of Europe, Department of European Legal Studies.

Outline: The aim of the conference is to critically examine the influence the membership in the European Union has had on the judicial thinking, method, and institutions in the new Central and Eastern European Member States.