Antje Wiener is assistant professor at the Institute for Political Science, University of Hannover, Germany.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2267/3_66/58118477/p1/article.jhtml

Issues concerning the relationship between economic globalisation and the politics of citizenship are examined. Topics include nationalism, changing citizenship in the European Union, the sociology of citizenship, political participatory rights, political theory of citizenship, immigration and emigration, and human rights.

Seyla Benhabib is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University, USA.

http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/eur/papers/works/euro_citizen.html

Questions of political identity and citizenship, raised by the creation of the ‘new Europe’, pose new questions that political theorists need to consider. Reflection upon the circumstances of the new Europe could help them in their task of delineating conceptual structures and investigating the character of political argument.

Does it make sense to use concepts as ‘citizenship’ and ‘identity’ beyond the borders of the nation-state? What does it mean when we speak about ‘European Citizenship’ and ‘European Identity’?

It is argued that the pluralism that has led theorists to offer a conception of citizenship based upon principles of right, rather than the common good, applies even more strongly at the level of the European political order. Developing a contractarian theory of federation, an account of the basis of a European citizenship will be offered in which federalism emerges out of an overlapping consensus of European citizens on the terms of their political association.

‘European Citizenship’ and ‘European Identity’ are discussed in the context of the so-called ‘European Union’, and not in the wider context of Europe ‘as a whole’, or for that matter on an even broader ‘cosmopolitan’ scale. However, the gist of the article is that arguments for concepts of ‘citizenship’ and ‘identity’ that go beyond borders of nation-states and that are applied to the ‘European Union’, could have implications for an even wider application.

Finally, and in conclusion, the (empirical) context will be elaborated in which the normative concept of shared liberal citizenship identity should be realised on a pan-national, European level.

Percy B. Lehning is professor of Political Theory and Public Policy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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Citizenship has once again become a major item on political agendas at a time of increasing integration and closure around ‘the European’, especially in response to immigration and its consequences for national identity. This article first outlines the different models and traditions of citizenship and their re-evaluations in contemporary Europe. In the second part critiques directed towards the capacity of formal models of citizenship are examined, to respond first to the growing rejection of those who are deemed not to belong to European societies, especially immigrants and those with ambiguous relationships to territory; and, second, to the partial incorporation of women which has resulted to some extent from the complex interrelationship between rights, obligations and resources that they encounter in the public and private spheres. In the last section the potential of diversifying spaces of governance in the European Community is examined briefly and also whether this development might open up spaces for an extended and democratic citizenship or merely multiply the frontiers of closures.

http://www.utwente.nl/cheps/what's_new/latest_news/oratiewende.pdf

Wende, M.C. van der (2001). Internationalisation policies: about new trends and contrasting paradigms. In: Higher Education Policy, 14-3; 249-259.

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In this article, internationalisation of higher education is analysed as a response to globalisation. A distinction is made between to paradigms in internationalisation: competition and co-operation. The different approaches to internationalisation in the Anglo-Saxon countries on the one hand and in continental Europe on the other are analysed along the lines of these two paradigms. With respect to the role and position of continental Europe in the global higher education market the following questions are explored. Is there a real higher education market in Europe and if so for whom? Should and can European higher education actually compete internationally, and if so, is co-operation the right strategy to do so? It will be concluded that the effectiveness of co-operation and especially that of international university consortia in international competition is largely still hidden in the future. Furthermore, may questions still remain to be answered in order to improve our understanding of the international higher education market in terms of its segmentation and the related diversification of the higher education sector and its functions.

Marijk C. van der Wende is professor Comparative Higher Education Policy Studies, with particular reference to Globalisation and Network Technologies at the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS), University of Twente, The Netherlands.

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This article examines the impact of European integration on higher education policies of the Netherlands, Belgium/Flanders and Germany. The analysis of higher education policies in the three countries is part of a broader project, which focuses on a majority of E.U. member states. The selection of the three countries for this paper is not based on any methodological considerations. The question addressed is if higher education policies of member states are converging, diverging or not changing at all, and whether such developments are a consequence of the policies of the European Union (E.U.) or of other factors (e.g., the globalisation of the market or of institutions imitating each other). A preliminary assessment leads to the conclusion that a number of important indications of convergence are present in national policy arrangements in the field of higher education (in particular student mobility and quality assurance, but less in the structure of higher education systems. Attention will be focused on the structure of higher education systems, on quality assurance and on student and teacher mobility. These domains appear to cover most relevant issues pertaining to higher education policies in the European Union member states (funding of higher education is sometimes considered as a separate domain, but it can also be regarded as an element of the structure of higher education systems, while it is also related to the issue of quality assurance).). The European Union, however, does not have much legal authority in the policy sector in question. Thus, an explanation for converging national policies may lie elsewhere, in part in the concept of "institutional isomorphism".

Vojin Rakic is senior research associate at the Centre for Higher Education Policy studies (CHEPS), University of Twente, The Netherlands.

http://www.minocw.nl/bhw/85/index.html

http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/orient/orie-en.html

Advising and policy documents on the international dimension of national (higher) education: Higher education

http://www.minocw.nl/english/education/givetake.html

http://www.onderwijsraad.nl/Doc/English/drafthoop2000sum.pdf

http://www.minocw.nl/onderwijs/wereldburgers/09.html

http://www.onderwijsraad.nl/Doc/Europa.pdf

http://www.onderwijsraad.nl/Doc/inter.pdf

The question is posed that if the old democratic socialist project seems either halted, stilted or abandoned, how can we at least, possibly at best, achieve a truly democratic and inclusive society — a culture of positive citizenship? The inquiry and advocacy ranges through institutions of government, the parties, parliament, problems of multiculturalism, the practices of the voluntary sector, education and the arts.

http://www.ercomer.org/publish/reports/EN_Re_38.html

Citizenship has been the guiding principle of Dutch integration policy for minorities since 1994. However, it has proven difficult to relate the highly abstract concept of citizenship to concrete policy measures. The report deals with the conceptualisation of citizenship in relation to integration policy. It focuses on the question: how can the concept of citizenship function as point of reference in the policy-making process and political discussion on the integration of minority groups. The first two chapters contain an overview of the academic citizenship discussion. This is followed, in chapter three, by an exploration of the Dutch government’s view on citizenship in relation to integration policy, together with an alternative view from a recent public debate. While in the fourth chapter, the theoretical insights, given in chapters one and two are applied to some current questions on the integration of minorities in Dutch society.

Alfons Fermin is research fellow at the European Research Centre on Migration & Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER), Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/education/socrates/erasmus/dialog.pdf

List of literature on the internet: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/unireg/Unbib.doc

Being Political offers a series of genealogies of citizenship as otherness. Engin F. Isin invokes the city as a "difference machine", recovering slaves, peasants, artisans, prostitutes, vagabonds, savages, flextimers, and squeegee men in the streets of the polis, civitas, metropolis, and cosmopolis. The result is a challenge to think in bolder terms about citizenship at a time when its nature is an increasingly open question.

Engin F. Isin is Canada Research Chair in citizenship studies and associate professor in the urban studies program at York University in Toronto, Canada.

http://www.usg.uu.nl/organisatie/medewerkers/m.bovens/informatierechten.pdf

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http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/politiikka/tproj/activity/tirayksi.htm