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Author : Jeffrey T. Checkel,Peter J. Katzenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521883016
An ambitious volume which asks why hopes are fading for a single European identity, despite decades of European integration.
Author : Furio Cerutti,Sonia Lucarelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134063741
Makes the innovative effort of examining the interplay between political identity and legitimacy in the unprecedented but also unfinished development of the European Union into a fully fledged political actor.
Author : Soledad García
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029968206
3. The Renaissance Idea of Europe.
Author : Paris Varvarousēs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : National characteristics, European
ISBN : 9600219931
Author : Stephanie Bergbauer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319677088
What makes people identify with Europe? To answer this question, this book analyzes the development and determinants of a common European identity among EU citizens from the Maastricht Treaty in 1992 to the recent financial and economic crisis. The author examines citizens’ identification with Europe for all EU member states, and systematically explores the theoretical and empirical implications of two turning points in the recent history of EU integration, namely the EU’s enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe in 2004/2007 and the financial and economic crisis that started in 2008. The book integrates theoretical approaches to European identity in sociology, social-psychology and EU public opinion research in a comprehensive model for explaining individual identification with Europe. The empirical analysis employs a multilevel framework to systematically assess the influence of individual characteristics and the political, economic, and social context on citizens’ feelings of identity. The long analysis period spanning from 1992 to the present allows inferences to be drawn about the long-term developments in the sources of European identification as well as the immediate impact of EU enlargement and the crisis on the determinants of European identification.
Author : H. Mikkeli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780333995419
Heikki Mikkeli charts the history of the idea of Europe and European identity. The first part introduces the various attempts to unify Europe from antiquity to the European Union. In the second part the relationship of Europe with America and Russia is considered, as well as the ambivalent role of Central Europe.
Author : Menno Spiering,Michael Wintle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230306943
The two concepts at the centre of this book: Europe, and the Second World War, are constantly changing in public perception. Now that 'Europe' is an even more contested idea than ever, this volume informs the current discourse on European identity by analysing Europe's reaction to the tragedy, heroism and disgrace of the Second World War.
Author : M. Bruter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230501539
This book shows empirically for the first time how a mass European identity has emerged across the EU member states between 1970 and the present day. Beyond this novel approach, it also offers a whole new theory of political identities, based on two 'civic' and 'cultural' components. Michael Bruter shows how multiple identities reinforce - rather than exclude - each other, and studies in depth the unsuspected impact of the media and political institutions on the emergence of new political identities.
Author : Kenneth Keulman,Agnes Katalin Koós
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739191545
The further evolution of the European Union is mainly dependent on how its citizens relate to their fellow Europeans speaking a score of languages and belonging to a variety of cultures. This book addresses the question of whether a new sense of collective self-identification, labeled “European identity,” a special form of socio-territorial identities, is emerging. Collective identities are works in progress, they entail a salient strategic—activist and future-oriented—dimension. Divergent strategic goals of the constituent groups induce a perpetual contestation and negotiation of the group identity, a process that in the case of the EU is intensified by the continuously changing boundaries and institutional structure of the super-polity. To confront these challenges, this book has a double focus. The first part weighs in on the feasibility of a European identity in light of what the two main paradigms in the field, primordialism and constructivism, can predict. The second part maps the social forces that are either favorable or inimical to the creation of a common social identity on the continent. Both parts develop hypotheses about the processes we witness, and test them with the available empirical data. Part II distinguishes between passive and active supporters of the integration project, besides the Euroskeptic segment of the public. Provision of public goods by regional integration is believed to explain passive permissiveness, while the main impetus for integration comes from those who may reap above-average benefits from it. This book contends that the groups of active supporters have historically been changing within the Union; namely, the political Left and Right are changing their roles in negotiating future developments. Yet the evolution of the EU is also shaped by the solutions adopted to accommodate ethnic and cultural diversity. The empirical tests involve opinion survey data taken from the Eurobarometer series, World Value and European Social Surveys, and the International Social Survey Programme, expert ratings, as well as party elite documents from the Manifesto Project Database.
Author : Bettina Westle,Paolo Segatti
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198732907
This book provides an unprecedented insight into the multiple ways through which citizens of 16 countries connect their own national identity to European identity.
Author : Dieter Fuchs,Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857938084
As a consequence of various rounds of EU enlargements, the degree of cultural diversity in Europe has intensified a phenomenon which is increasingly perceived as problematic by many EU citizens. This fascinating book not only empirically explores the current state of the identity and the legitimacy of the EU as viewed by its citizens, but also evaluates their attitudes towards it. The expert contributors show that the development of a European identity and a common European culture is a prerequisite for European integration; that European identity and a common political culture will not develop rapidly but emerge slowly, and that the beginnings of a European identity and a common European culture are currently emerging. The roles of civil society organizations and political parties are examined within this context, and an explanatory model with subjective predictors of the attitudes towards the EU is tested. The empirical analysis is underpinned by a theoretical framework incorporating operational definitions and conceptual discussion of legitimacy and identity. This intriguing and thought-provoking book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students focusing on political science and international relations.
Author : Helene Sjursen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134223404
This new book takes a unique approach to the study of European enlargement, tackling key questions. What kind of understanding of the EU do the enlargement processes speak to? Do decisions to enlarge mainly suggest that the EU is a free market, focusing on potential economic gains? Do they indicate that there is a sense of common European identity? Or is the focus primarily on securing respect for democratic principles and human rights? Offering up-to-date studies of the EU enlargement processes and country-specific in-depth analyses, Questioning EU Enlargement will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of European studies, international relations and politics.
Author : Aline Sierp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317662044
This book questions the presupposition voiced by many historians and political scientists that political experiences in Europe continue to be interpreted in terms of national history, and that a European community of remembrance still does not exist. By tracing the evolution of specific memory cultures in two successor countries of the Fascist/Nazi regime (Italy and Germany) and the impact of structural changes upon them, the book investigates wider democratic processes, particularly concerning the conservation and transmission of values and the definition of identity on different levels. It argues that the creation of a transnational European memory culture does not necessarily imply the erasure of national and local forms of remembrance. It rather means the creation of a further supranational arena where diverging memories can find their expression and can be dealt with in a different way. Through the triangulation of agents of memory construction, constraints and opportunities and actual portrayals of the past, this volume explores the difficulties faced by a multinational entity like the EU in reaching some kind of consensus on such a sensitive subject as history.
Author : Richard K. Herrmann,Thomas Risse,Marilynn B. Brewer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0742530078
This original work explores the increasingly important phenomenon of the formation of transnational identity. Considering the ongoing relevance of the European Union, the contributors ask a series of intriguing questions: Is a European identity possible? How are the various types of European identity formed and maintained? How are these identities linked to the process of European integration? Examining the psychological, institutional, and political mechanisms that encourage or impede identification with transnational groups, the book considers these theoretical questions in light of new evidence drawn from a rich body of primary research, including field experiments, in-depth interviews with elites, and public opinion surveys. Brought together for the first time, social psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, and ethnographers share their theoretical and methodological perspectives in tackling the common issues surrounding the emergence of "European" as a political identity. Paying special attention to the role of the institutions of the EU, the authors investigate the impact of neo-functionalist strategies and find that the processes of identity formation are far more complicated than can be explained by material and institutional factors alone. The authors engage in a fruitful dialogue about how much a European identity exists and how much it matters as they delve into the sources of disagreement and their implications.
Author : N. Parker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230610323
This book pursues an original perspective on Europe's shifting extent and geopolitical standing: how countries and spaces marginal to it impact on Europe as a center. A theoretical discussion of borders and margins is developed, and set against nine studies of countries, regions, and identities seen as marginal to Europe.