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Adell

Tomas Johannes Adell
 jadell01@qub.ac.uk

Research

In the process of constitutionalisation of transnational organisations norms transfers occur when the connotations of domestic norms move into a beyond-the-state setting. As norms are both constructive and constructing, the move takes them out of their socio-cultural community which creates a degree of contestation but yet retain their importance. Building on this facticity/validity tension, is it possible for EU’s CFSP to be characterised as a life-world beyond-the-state? And how does the process of constitutionalisation affect the diffusion, convergence and divergence of core constitutional norms in a comparative aspect between elite groups at EU’s CFSP and Germany, Sweden and the UK?

Supervisors:  Dr David Phinnemore and Dr Mike Bourne.