This article explores the European normative power of the European Neighborhood Policy （ENP）. By analyzing EU democracy promotion for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, the author assesses ...This article explores the European normative power of the European Neighborhood Policy （ENP）. By analyzing EU democracy promotion for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, the author assesses EU normative capacity. Based on the analysis of EU democracy promotion and institutional impact in the six targeted states, the author argues that the EU has been a weak normative power in the region. Instead of building a ＂ring of friends＂ as argued by the EU Commission, in an enlarged democratic community, the EU has achieved poor democratic records in all six states, with Azerbaijan as the worst case and Georgia as the best. The result may call into question the idea of the EU as normative power and democracy promoter in European politics.展开更多
How do South Korea's developmental legacies influence its contemporary political economy?The discourse surrounding this question has tended to diverge over the extent to which South Korea's state-led developme...How do South Korea's developmental legacies influence its contemporary political economy?The discourse surrounding this question has tended to diverge over the extent to which South Korea's state-led developmental model has been supplanted by a market-led,neoliberal mode of political-economic organization Though this debate has indeed fostered many important individual contributions,it has also yielded a muddled and ambiguous theoretical landscape.To clarify this cluttered terrain,this paper draws from recent advances in the study of neoliberalism to establish critical points of consonance between statist perspectives on Korean development and neoliberalism To this end,it identifies key threads of continuity binding South Korea's developmental past with its neoliberal present.The paper finds that critical aspects of the developmental state's interaction with society,from coercion to ideological suasion furnished elemental building blocks to those actively constructing a South Korean neoliberalism Thus,exploring these historical contours producesa fresh means for apprehending the interactions of enduring statist developmental legacies with contemporary neoliberal reforms,both theoretically and empirically.As such,this study yields an improved set of conceptual tools for grasping the complex empirical phenomena shaping the interplay of neoliberalism,developmentalism,and democracy within contemporary South Korea.展开更多
文摘This article explores the European normative power of the European Neighborhood Policy （ENP）. By analyzing EU democracy promotion for Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, the author assesses EU normative capacity. Based on the analysis of EU democracy promotion and institutional impact in the six targeted states, the author argues that the EU has been a weak normative power in the region. Instead of building a ＂ring of friends＂ as argued by the EU Commission, in an enlarged democratic community, the EU has achieved poor democratic records in all six states, with Azerbaijan as the worst case and Georgia as the best. The result may call into question the idea of the EU as normative power and democracy promoter in European politics.
文摘How do South Korea's developmental legacies influence its contemporary political economy?The discourse surrounding this question has tended to diverge over the extent to which South Korea's state-led developmental model has been supplanted by a market-led,neoliberal mode of political-economic organization Though this debate has indeed fostered many important individual contributions,it has also yielded a muddled and ambiguous theoretical landscape.To clarify this cluttered terrain,this paper draws from recent advances in the study of neoliberalism to establish critical points of consonance between statist perspectives on Korean development and neoliberalism To this end,it identifies key threads of continuity binding South Korea's developmental past with its neoliberal present.The paper finds that critical aspects of the developmental state's interaction with society,from coercion to ideological suasion furnished elemental building blocks to those actively constructing a South Korean neoliberalism Thus,exploring these historical contours producesa fresh means for apprehending the interactions of enduring statist developmental legacies with contemporary neoliberal reforms,both theoretically and empirically.As such,this study yields an improved set of conceptual tools for grasping the complex empirical phenomena shaping the interplay of neoliberalism,developmentalism,and democracy within contemporary South Korea.
