Between the National and Supranational? Transnational Political Activism, Conflict, and Cooperation in the Integrated Europe
Between the National and Supranational? Transnational Political Activism, Conflict, and Cooperation in the Integrated Europe

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to propose an approach that would be able to analyze connections between supranational po litical structures and domestic political inter actions. The pa per starts by criti cizing the reductive dichotomy between the ‘global’ and ‘na tional’. Instead of this dichotomy, the article draws on current con tri butions to the study of con tentious poli tics and proposes to see international poli tics as a triangular structure of re lations among states, international or gani zations, and nonstate actors. Further, the article applies this per spective to the analysis of Europeanization, and current conflicts taking place within the European Union. Four patterns of cooperation and conflict are defined. The article con cludes by analyzing the political debate on European integration.

• Details
• Contents