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European Identity (Contemporary European Politics)

By Jeffrey T. Checkel , Peter J. Katzenstein

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0521709539, 9780521709538, 0521883016, 9780521883016, 9780511480966
LCC
JN30 .E847 2009
Open Library ID
OL23655796M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1073606 bytes)
Series
Contemporary European Politics
Edition
1
Pages
281\281
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Why are hopes fading for a single European identity? Economic integration has advanced faster and further than predicted, yet the European sense of 'who we are' is fragmenting. Exploiting decades of permissive consensus, Europe's elites designed and completed the single market, the euro, the Schengen passport-free zone, and, most recently, crafted an extraordinarily successful policy of enlargement. At the same time, these attempts to de-politicize politics, to create Europe by stealth, have produced a political backlash. This ambitious survey of identity in Europe captures the experiences of the winners and losers, optimists and pessimists, movers and stayers in a Europe where spatial and cultural borders are becoming ever more permeable. A full understanding of Europe's ambivalence, refracted through its multiple identities, lies at the intersection of competing European political projects and social processes.

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