Polish and British Politics 2013:
The Challenges and Opposition to the European Integration
Workshop
May 24, 2013, 9.00–15.30,
CIUW Building, Central Campus
The British Socio-Political Studies Research Group BRITANNIA
The Polish Society for British and Commonwealth Studies
and The Institute of European Studies, University of Warsaw
The workshop was to analyse the European policy-making of Poland from the British Perspective, as well as the Polish perception of key problems of the UK’s European policy-making, and to compare these two perspectives.
Special attention was paid to the influence of the EU accession on the quality of Polish democracy as well as to the state of methodological debate and research in the field of Euroscepticism Studies. There were also discussed such important British political developments of 2012–2013 as influence of the Scottish independence debate on EU’s policy-making; perspectives of the UK’s EU referendum; the 2013 Queen’s Speech; and the legacy of Lady Thatcher assessed from the Central European perspective.
The workshop was constituted by three panels, the two first presenting keynote speeches by distinguished researchers in the field, and the third one presenting the findings of the research projects undertaken by the members of the Britannia Group and colleagues from other academic centres in Poland and abroad.
The keynote speakers were:
Professor Aleks Szczerbiak – Professor of Politics and Contemporary European Studies at the University of Sussex and Co-Director of the Sussex European Institute. His research interests comprise, among others, contemporary Polish politics, and opposition to European integration. Professor Szczerbiak co-convenes the European Parties, Elections and Referendums Network. He has been publishing extensively on Polish politics, including two monographs: Poland Within the European Union: New Awkward Partner or New Heart of Europe? (Routledge, 2012), and Poles Together?: The Emergence and Development of Political Parties in Post-communist Poland (Central European University Press, 2001). Moreover, in 2013 Professor Szczerbiak has started writing The Polish Politics Blog. He also authored and edited a number of books and papers on comparative Euroscepticsm, including (co-edited with Prof. Paul Taggart) Opposing Europe? The Comparative Party Politics of Euroscepticism, Volume 1: Case Studies and Country Surveys, and Volume 2: Comparative and Theoretical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2008).
Dr Anna Gwiazda – Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the King’s College, University of London. Prior to her appointment at King’s, she lectured at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, and Dublin City University. She holds a PhD from Trinity College, University of Dublin. Her research interests comprise comparative politics; European politics; EU politics and public policy; Europeanization and Polish politics; and democracy. She published a number of papers in peer-reviewed journals. Her latest book analyses the developments of Democracy in Poland: Representation, Participation, Competition and Accountability since 1989 (Routledge 2015).
Dr Aleksandra Moroska-Bonkiewicz – Assistant Professor at the Department of Security and International Affairs, University of Lower Silesia. Her main research interests focus on populism, extremism, Euroscepticism, and political system security. She published a number of papers in peer-reviewed journals in Poland and abroad, as well as edited the monograph on Political Extremism in Modern World (Wrocław, 2012). Her PhD thesis on the Right-Wing Populism and Euroscepticism: The Case of the List Pim Fortuyn in the Netherlands and the League of Polish Families in Poland (published in 2010) was awarded the honors by the President of the Republic of Poland, and the prize of Minister of Science and Higher Education. She is a member of the editorial board of the “Yearbook of International Security”.
The workshop was held in English.
WORKSHOP AGENDA
08.50–09.10 REGISTRATION
09.10–09.30 WELCOME
09.30–11.15 Part 1. KEY-NOTE PRESENTATIONS (I): Theoretical and methodological issues in Eurosceptic Studies (chaired by Dr Przemysław Biskup, Institute of European Studies, University of Warsaw).
11.15–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–13.00 Part 2. KEY-NOTE PRESENTATIONS (II): Polish Politics and the challenge of European integration (chaired by Dr Łukasz Zamęcki, Institute of European Studies, University of Warsaw).
13.00–13.45 Lunch Break
13.45–15.30 Part 3. Panel on recent developments in British politics (chaired by Dr Wojciech Lewandowski)
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