Controlling normality. Reinforcement fo core-periphery dynamics through legal normativity

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003225188-3" target="_blank" >10.4324/9781003225188-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Controlling normality. Reinforcement fo core-periphery dynamics through legal normativity

Original language description

This chapter by Petr Agha critically analyzes how European law and its normativity serve as a tool to maintain the power asymmetry between the Western core and the Eastern periphery of the EU. The author argues that the Union's legal framework is not neutral but enforces a specific version of normality, which places post-communist states in the role of perpetual students and strips them of political authenticity. In the context of Velvet Capitalism, Agha identifies this pressure for conformity and the disregard for local specifics as a primary source of the current crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of populism in the region.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2026

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Velvet Capitalism and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

ISBN

978-1-032-12566-4

Number of pages of the result

16

Pages from-to

32-47

Number of pages of the book

108

Publisher name

Routledge

Place of publication

London

UT code for WoS chapter

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