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This article analyzes the transfer of liberal-democratic norms in the area of civil-military relations during the last decade to Eastern Europe. The Authors are using a new approach - « the politics of mimicry » - to explore the transformation of civil-military relations as complex interactions between persistent traditional patterns of institutional behavior, and new policies and norms that were introduced as a result of NATO/EU oriented policies adopted by most East European countries in the early 1990s, and a set of conditionalities imposed by the international organizations. Authors are elaborating the regional differences in the norm transfer process by juxtaposing Central Europe and Russia. This approach results in presenting a whole range of the varieties of the emerging synthesis between old and the new norms. Such synthesis shows that these societies (that is particularly visible in the Russian case) can protect themselves from the external challenges. The main conclusion of this article is that through institutional and normative mimicry the newly emerging Systems in Eastern Europe search for an indigenous path of transformation.
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AbstractThis contribution analyses the results of the Adonnino Committee that promoted a peoples' Europe as part of the Fontainebleau relaunch (June 1984). The policy developed in the Committee's final report stems from two different approaches which were perceived as complementary at the time: increasing the rights of European citizens and developing a strategy focusing on identity through European symbolism. This policy was aimed at bridging Europe and its peoples and was later monitored through literature published on European citizenship and identity and more directly through the « Eurobarometer » opinion polls.
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