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Metropolitan University in Prague & Charles University
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In the light of the so-called 'polycrisis' faced by the European Union, this article engages the ... more In the light of the so-called 'polycrisis' faced by the European Union, this article engages the contemporary 'crisis of European Union Studies' (EUS) by exploring how this field has been historically formed and relationally constituted. Bringing Foucaultian tools to the history and sociology of knowledge, it foregrounds the strategic interplay of power and knowledge and unpacks two distinctive strategies that structure the epistemic field: on the one hand, the European Commission's repeated interventions into the academic field through the Jean Monnet Programme and, on the other, scholarly practices that seek to arrest the identity of the field in the context of methodological and disciplinary competition. It will be argued that the respective valorisations they operate participate in an economy of knowledge that has deferred the engagement with other methodologies and objectivities. The findings presented in this paper eventually encourage a reflexive debate about what EUS stands for and how it possibly needs to be reconstructed.
Research on the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has been notoriously uncritical of the ... more Research on the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has been notoriously uncritical of the justification systems that underpin both CSDP practices and the production of academic/"scientific" knowledge. Critique here has widely meant "testing": exploring (mis)matches either between theory and empirical observation or between political rhetoric and concrete implementation. Drawing on Michel Foucault's understanding of power and critique, this article seeks to contribute to the problematisation and politicisation of contemporaneous power relations as exercised in and through CSDP. Specifically, it asks how the future is enacted in security practices such as comprehensive crisis management exercises, the knowledge they empower and the subjects they shape. It critically engages how the rationality of preparedness, combining logics of problem solving and speculation, allows constant depoliticised interventions into the present in the name of imagined future events and system failures.
In the light of the so-called 'polycrisis' faced by the European Union, this article engages the ... more In the light of the so-called 'polycrisis' faced by the European Union, this article engages the contemporary 'crisis of European Union Studies' (EUS) by exploring how this field has been historically formed and relationally constituted. Bringing Foucaultian tools to the history and sociology of knowledge, it foregrounds the strategic interplay of power and knowledge and unpacks two distinctive strategies that structure the epistemic field: on the one hand, the European Commission's repeated interventions into the academic field through the Jean Monnet Programme and, on the other, scholarly practices that seek to arrest the identity of the field in the context of methodological and disciplinary competition. It will be argued that the respective valorisations they operate participate in an economy of knowledge that has deferred the engagement with other methodologies and objectivities. The findings presented in this paper eventually encourage a reflexive debate about what EUS stands for and how it possibly needs to be reconstructed.
Research on the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has been notoriously uncritical of the ... more Research on the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) has been notoriously uncritical of the justification systems that underpin both CSDP practices and the production of academic/"scientific" knowledge. Critique here has widely meant "testing": exploring (mis)matches either between theory and empirical observation or between political rhetoric and concrete implementation. Drawing on Michel Foucault's understanding of power and critique, this article seeks to contribute to the problematisation and politicisation of contemporaneous power relations as exercised in and through CSDP. Specifically, it asks how the future is enacted in security practices such as comprehensive crisis management exercises, the knowledge they empower and the subjects they shape. It critically engages how the rationality of preparedness, combining logics of problem solving and speculation, allows constant depoliticised interventions into the present in the name of imagined future events and system failures.