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Borders, nations and states: frontiers of sovereignty in the new Europe / O'Dowd, Liam; Wilson, Thomas M

1996

O'Dowd, Liam	Book
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Publication	Aldershot, Ashgate, 1996.
Description	xx, 237p.
Standard Number	1859721583

Key Words

Sovereignty ; Europe - Economic Integration ; Territory - Europe ; Europe - Boundaries ; Political conditions - Europe

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Accession#	Call#	Current Location	Status	Policy	Location
041083	320.15094/ODO 041083	Main	On Shelf	General

ID: 081349

Hanging flower baskets, blowing in the wind? third-sector group / McCall, Cathal; O'Dowd, Liam

McCall, Cathal	Journal Article
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2008.

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The EU's Peace Programs in Ireland have promoted the cross-border activity of Third sector (voluntary and community) groups. Potentially, such activity gives substantive meaning to regional cross-border governance and helps to ameliorate ethno-national conflict by providing positive sum outcomes for "post-conflict" communities. The paper mobilizes focused research conducted by the authors to explore this potential. It finds that while regional cross-border governance has indeed developed under the Peace Programs, the sustainability of the social partnerships underpinning this governance is uncertain and its significance for conflict resolution is qualified by difficulties experienced in forming a stable power-sharing arrangement at the political-elite level

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European Union ; Conflict Resolution ; Post conflict

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ID: 103744

Promoting civil society across the borders of the EU neighbourh: debates, constraints and opportunities / O'Dowd, Liam; Dimitrovova, Bohdana

O'Dowd, Liam	Journal Article
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2011.

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One of the aims of this article it to clarify the nature of the debate over 'civil society' and its relationship to the state. It begins by suggesting that the EU's borderland provides a context in which deep-rooted 'Western' and 'Eastern' understandings of state and civil society meet and overlap. The second section outlines the geo-political reshaping of the 'Neighbourhood'. It concentrates on the influence of non-EU actors, notably Russia, complementing the EU-focused literature on the subject. The third section elaborates the consensus in the literature on the weakness of civil society in the EU 'Neighbourhood'. This is followed by a discussion of 'Western' debates over the role and significance of civil society. This discussion suggests that the 'export' of a Western model eastwards begs many questions about which particular model is to be promoted. It concludes that the precise characteristics of state-civil society relationship remains central to the prospects for enhancing civil society co-operation.

Key Words

Civil Society ; Opportunities ; EU Neighbourhood ; Debates

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