Politics of Integration and Disintegration in Post-Cold War Era

该项目涉及一名文化人类学家在布鲁塞尔和斯特拉斯堡研究欧洲议会成员，因为他们正在辩论和制定一种新的政治哲学，将“绿色”、基于地区和种族的选区以及联邦的机会和限制结合在一起。通过对政治会议的深入访谈和观察，调查员将评估这些社会和政治价值观在西欧不断演变的政治格局中的重要性。这项研究之所以重要，是因为欧洲的发展方式将极大地改变现代政治世界体系。通过这种深入研究，美国学者对这些变化背后的社会和文化动态有了更多的了解，这将有助于政策制定者应对新的世界体系。

This project involves a cultural anthropologist studying European members of parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg as they debate and develop a new political philosophy combining "Green", regional, and ethnic-based constituencies and federal opportunities and constraints. Using in-depth interviews and observation of political meetings the investigator will assess the importance of these social and political values as they are enacted in the evolving political landscape of Western Europe. This research is important because Europe is developing in ways that will dramatically change the modern political world system. Increased understanding by U.S. scholars of the social and cultural dynamics underlying these changes, which this sort of in-depth study provides, will help policy makers deal with the new world system.