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		<title>A common policy without capabilities and will to implement it: a fair a characterization of ESDP?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanislav Maselnik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article argues that the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) fails to provide the EU necessary capabilities that would allow it to stand up to the challenges of the 21st century. In doing so, it suggests that this failure can be explained when considered on a two-level scale. First, the EU member states lack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1368152&amp;post=198&amp;subd=faustianeurope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is European Economic Prosperity Dependent on Mass Immigration?</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/is-european-economic-prosperity-dependent-on-mass-immigration-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanislav Maselnik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of this article is to overview the issues and arguments surrounding the question of mass immigration to Europe. Its analysis is conceptually and in the use of available data focused on the last decade of immigration to what is now the European Union of 27 member states. In doing so, it takes a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1368152&amp;post=191&amp;subd=faustianeurope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Althusius’s Societal Federalism: A model for the EU?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanislav Maselnik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe and the EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many supporters of the European integration strongly believe in a kind of federalism that would be closer to European citizens, more transparent, and more representative of Europe’s plurality of communities than is the case under the current form of the European Union. The problem obviously arises in the moment when it is necessary to pin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1368152&amp;post=173&amp;subd=faustianeurope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Czech Nation and Its Past and Present Identity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanislav Maselnik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Czech]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[identity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[the modern concept of homogeneous nation to which the contemporary Czechs subscribe is, notwithstanding the belief of the Czechs to the contrary, exactly that – a modern ‘invention’ that cannot stand up to a more closer historical scrutiny<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1368152&amp;post=156&amp;subd=faustianeurope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Idea of Europe in the work of Denis de Rougemont and the French non-conformists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanislav Maselnik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe and the EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[federalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[identity_european]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Denis de Rougemont was a main thinker of the so-called non-conformistes des années trente, a movement of young intellectuals that appeared in France at the beginning of the turbulent 1930s, in opposition to both the individualism of liberalism and the collectivism of the Soviet Russia. [1] The main bulk of their work was published between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1368152&amp;post=120&amp;subd=faustianeurope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cosmopolitan Democracy and Its Failure in Providing a Political Identity</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/cosmopolitan-democracy-and-its-failure-in-providing-a-political-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanislav Maselnik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosmopolitanism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The political theory in the 1980s was marked by the &#8216;struggle&#8217; between communitarians and liberals. This debate was waged in the name of local social embededdness in the first case and in the name of certain universal moral standards applicable to all human beings equally in the case of the latter (1). Cosmopolitanism, as one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1368152&amp;post=102&amp;subd=faustianeurope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O Canada!</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/o-canada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 20:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanislav Maselnik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe and the EU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is an old signoff of the Canadian CBC TV &#8211; an excellent example from which we should inspire in how to promote the unity of the European Union in the future!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1368152&amp;post=90&amp;subd=faustianeurope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sovereignty: The History of the Concept</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/sovereignty-the-history-of-the-concept/</link>
		<comments>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/sovereignty-the-history-of-the-concept/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 23:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanislav Maselnik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Althusius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bodin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hobbes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberal democracy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pluralism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is sovereignty? In general, it might be said that the sovereignty is always either &#8216;internal&#8217; or &#8216;external&#8217;, or de facto and de jure [1]. My primary concern in this essay will be to shed some light on the first of these &#8211; internal sovereignty. Indeed, it is entirely correct to say that sovereignty cannot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1368152&amp;post=81&amp;subd=faustianeurope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A new European Treaty</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/a-new-european-treaty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanislav Maselnik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Affairs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the night from 19th to 20th October, the leaders of the 27 European countries agreed the proposed draft of the &#8216;Reform Treaty&#8217; which was being finalised in the preceding months after the heated July conference. This agreement is a victory for all pro-Europeans, not because of the content itself, but mainly because it will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1368152&amp;post=70&amp;subd=faustianeurope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beauty of European languages</title>
		<link>http://faustianeurope.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/beauty-of-european-languages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stanislav Maselnik</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By the title I do not want to express any &#8216;ethnophilic&#8217; sentiment towards the languages of the old continent, I merely want to point out to the document  recently published by Brussels Studies and reported *here* by an excellent weblog A Fistful of Euros. The Brussels Studies&#8217; document considers an interesting trend that recently appeared [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustianeurope.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1368152&amp;post=66&amp;subd=faustianeurope&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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