The project ‘Reconfigurations of centre and periphery in the European Union: a discursive political study’ investigates the transformation and re-definition of centre and periphery in the European Union (EU) in the aftermath of the financial crisis. It is funded by the European Commission and directed by Amelie Kutter at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).
The Greek crisis has attracted more public-political attention than any other sovereign debt crisis within the European Union. This article investigates the argument that this is due to the symbolic-catalytic role that the Greek crisis played in forging a specific approach to state rescue and the reform of th.e European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Drawing on assumptions of narrative political studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, the study shows how this approach was ‘catalyzed’ by a specific construction of the ‘Greek case’ in editorials of the financial press.
Kutter, A. (2013) Totgesagte leben länger: die Fortschreibung ökonomischer Ordnung in der deutschen Finanzpresse [Their death was prematurely reported: imaginations of economic formation in the financial…
Conference organised by Amelie Kutter at Lancaster University, 1-2 Nov 2012, in the frames of the project ‘A Cultural Political Economy of Crisis Management’ directed by…
Kutter, A. and Kantner, C. (2012) Corpus-based content analysis: a method for investigating news coverage on war and intervention, International Relations Online Working Paper Series, 2012(01).…
The end of the Cold War brought about a strategic shift in the field of foreign, security and defence policies in Europe. In particular, events like wars, humanitarian catastrophes or terrorist attacks provoked public debates about the future role of the European Union in world politics both in the EU member and the candidate states. The project investigates whether these debates led to the construction of a common European identity. Amelie Kutter is co-investigator on that project, which is directed by Cathleen Kantner and Thomas Risse at Free University Berlin.
Kantner, C., Kutter, A. and Renfordt, S. (2008) The perception of the EU as an emerging security actor in media debates on humanitarian and military interventions…
Kutter, A. (2007) Petitioner or Partner? Constructions of European Integration in Polish Print Media Debates on the EU Constitutional Treaty. In: N. Fairclough, G. Cortese and…
Kutter, A. (2006) Unia Europejska jako antagonizm. Strategie dyskursywne w polskiej debacie o przyszłości integracji europejskiej [Constructing the EU as an Antagonism: discursive strategies in the…