Despite the repeated use of terms like transfer and
Europeanization, which seem to construct Latin America as the passive recipient of European planning ideas as well as investment, the editor and those contributing to the volume actually see a much more dynamic role for Latin Americans in selecting, reshaping, and reinventing European urbanism and planning ideas.
Europeanization affects national systems of private law only selectively.
Europeanization as a globalization strategy would be regarded in Turkey as legitimate, for this process would also bring Turkey closer to its Western/ European identity.
No doubt that there has been a democratic order in ECE states as far as the formal criteria of democracy are concerned but there are many new problems concerning the low performance of the new democratic system, including the parliaments, also in the
europeanization process.
To reduce the effect of
Europeanization in Turkey to the prospect of imminent EU membership is naive and perhaps shallow.
Jurgen Ruland's fascinating and meticulously researched book focuses on the newly democratized Indonesia and the lively debates surrounding the drafting and ratification of the ASEAN Charter, seen as a major development in the "
Europeanization" of ASEAN.
From a sociological point of view, people carry multiple identities and these should not necessarily be in conflict, rather there are accommodative 'eccentric' circles of identities.3
Europeanization can be considered as an identity discourse that is in conformity with Anderson's concept of 'imagined communities'.4 There has seldom been such a thing as 'collective identity' anywhere in the European continent.
The concept of
Europeanization is very often used, having quite a few meanings such as development of the European financial markets, possible expansion of companies and transnational corporations as well as their increasing domination over the national economies.
A central theoretical reference point in research on accession and enlargement is the much debated concept of
Europeanization (see Richardson and Mazey, 2015).
The questions of EU integration and the related process of
Europeanization are topics of widespread concern in Serbian society today.
Burkart also notes the impact that
Europeanization has played in creating the ideal conditions for this pincerlike assault on the communication commons (one of several topics that deserves revisiting in the post-Brexit context).
Both from empirical knowledge and from deliberative speculation, we can identify the differentiated influence of
Europeanization. Its major instrument, conditionality, sometimes works more efficiently, sometimes less.