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  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Blanco Sío-López Cristina
    From “Tell" to "Sell". The Commodification of EU Institutional Communication through the Case of the Communication Strategy on EU's Eastward Enlargement
    in Officina della Storia , n. 13 ,  2015
    The main objective of this article lies in defining the motivations, strategies and discourses of EU institutional narratives regarding their attempted monopoly of legitimacy in the communication of the objectives and implications of EU’s Eastward Enlargement towards the citizenship, both in EU Member States and in candidate countries. Special attention is paid to the observation of how relevant EU institutional discourses pose a notorious semantic charge whose power and influence is no less significant than hard power identity-building and boundary-making devices. Last but not least, the commodification of informational discourses in political communication from the nineties onwards — coinciding with the crucial geopolitical changes of the post-Cold War era — are analysed under the light of the revealing case of the building and consolidation of the EU Communication Strategy on Eastward enlargement. Full text available online
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