Putting Down and Putting Off
Putting Down and Putting Off
The EU’s Discursive Strategies in the 1998 and 1999 Follow-Up Reports
Under the scrutiny of qualitative discourse analysis, the 1998 and 1999 reports by the EU on the eastern applicants reveal the two main discursive strategies of the EU towards these countries: inferiorizing them and postponing their admission. These strategies foreclose inclusion of eastern European countries as anything other than second class members of the Union.
Released: Replika 45–46, 89–110.
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