Open Research Repository
The Open Research Repository (ORR) is the official institutional repository of the Central European University. The repository provides access to the research output of the CEU community by collecting open access versions of scholarly works authored or co-authored by CEU faculty and students.
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Item Building a Transnational Developmental State in Europe:Lessons from the Big Bang enlargement for the next integration round(2025-09-22)Why should the EU care about the developmental externalities of enlargement? To answer this question, we bridge the enlargement literature, which studies rule transfer prior to accession, and the political economy literature, which examines how economic actors from less developed EU member states adapt to these rules in the post-accession period. Each has its own blind spots. The enlargement literature does not explain why the EU cares–or should care–about anticipating and mitigating the longer-term negative externalities of rule transfer. The political economy literature offers insights into how new member states cope with these externalities but it does not examine in detail how and why the EU takes - or should take - market-correcting measures while integrating less developed economies into the Single Market. In this paper, we show that during the Eastern enlargement the EU laid the foundations of a short-lived Transnational Developmental State (TDS) to correct market outcomes. We also identify three mechanisms that compelled EU insiders to address the negative externalities of rule transfer. Beyond its theoretical contribution, our analysis provides crucial lessons for the next round of EU integration and especially for managing Ukraine's EU accession.Item The Puzzle of Freedom:Structure and Agency in International Adjudication(Cambridge University Press, 2025)Like any other institutions, international courts are both constrained and free, structured and open-ended in their production of legal outcomes. Yet, after decades of investigation, the driving forces behind international adjudication remain somewhat elusive. If international norms are textually indeterminate, then what guides their interpretation and application to concrete cases? To what systemic pressures are courts subject? And what forms of discretion do they enjoy? This chapter begins to answer these questions by focusing on the micro-level practices, relationships, and struggles of the legal experts populating international judicial institutions. On the one hand, these socio-professional dynamics are constrained by existing social arrangements, including the institutional design of courts, the networked interactions among individual actors, and the competent performances that punctuate the adjudicative process. On the other hand, existing social arrangements are open to contestation, renegotiation, and contingency, thereby creating opportunities for unorthodox and creative lawyering. As such, the socio-professional dynamics that take place inside international courts are both the vehicle of reproduction of legal outcomes and the source from which legal change originates.Item Who do i remember for?:Memory as genre and dark pleasures of trauma witnessing(Open Book Publishers, 2024-04-22)There is a lot written on trauma-witnessing and childhood memories, very often in tandem. I am entering this discussion by engaging with two questions that have not been addressed extensively within the field of memory/trauma studies: (1) In which ways and from what places are memories being structured even before they come to be 'our' memories? In other words, can we talk of memory as a genre?; and (2) What kinds of dark pleasures are derived from trauma-witnessing - both from the side of the witness-teller and from the side of the listener? Finally: How are these two questions connected, and what does their intersection tell us about the possibilities and limits of memorywriting? This chapter is very personal; for, in it, I try to grapple with my own uneasiness when faced with these questions in the context of a memory-writing workshop. It is also a chapter that tries to contextualise its conclusions within the wider frame of memory-writing processes of different kinds.Item Socialist Infrastructure and its Afterlife:Romania’s Danube–Black Sea Canal(Purdue University Press, 2025-08)
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