Europe, not Brussels
The World Congress of East European Studies
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
The swan song to East European Studies and area studies intoned in the 1990s has turned out to be premature. Excessively generalizing models and the pseudo-experimental language of “variables” and “peripheral conditions” have shown themselves to be inadequate for explaining various developments in Eastern Europe. Even simply transferring to the east theories of integration learned from the European Union’s experience falls short of the mark. Theory-driven regional knowledge is needed for the comparative Europeanisation of East European Studies.
(Osteuropa 9/2005, pp. 112–121)