David Michael Green
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198297574
- eISBN:
- 9780191598982
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198297572.003.0015
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
This chapter explores the concept of European identity. It is shown that there are ‘Europeans’ in Europe, but such identification is limited. This identity appeals to a small segment of the ...
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This chapter explores the concept of European identity. It is shown that there are ‘Europeans’ in Europe, but such identification is limited. This identity appeals to a small segment of the population, mostly made up of the elite and cosmopolitan. In short, a European identity exists but within limitations that make it nearly unrecognisable if seen against the political identities which have populated the landscape in the past two centuries.Less
This chapter explores the concept of European identity. It is shown that there are ‘Europeans’ in Europe, but such identification is limited. This identity appeals to a small segment of the population, mostly made up of the elite and cosmopolitan. In short, a European identity exists but within limitations that make it nearly unrecognisable if seen against the political identities which have populated the landscape in the past two centuries.
Sophie Duchesne and André‐Paul Frognier
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294764
- eISBN:
- 9780191600005
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/019829476X.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
This chapter focuses on how far citizens of member‐states of the European Community consider themselves as belonging to a distinct political entity. Specifically, it focuses on the relationship ...
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This chapter focuses on how far citizens of member‐states of the European Community consider themselves as belonging to a distinct political entity. Specifically, it focuses on the relationship between different levels of ‘belonging’, from the local to the European, and even the world level, and on the feeling of being a ‘European citizen’ or a ‘European’. The empirical evidence provided by ‘Eurobarometer’ public opinion survey data indicates clearly that it is too early to speak of the internationalization of identities. For the present, a ‘European identity’ is a vanguard phenomenon.Less
This chapter focuses on how far citizens of member‐states of the European Community consider themselves as belonging to a distinct political entity. Specifically, it focuses on the relationship between different levels of ‘belonging’, from the local to the European, and even the world level, and on the feeling of being a ‘European citizen’ or a ‘European’. The empirical evidence provided by ‘Eurobarometer’ public opinion survey data indicates clearly that it is too early to speak of the internationalization of identities. For the present, a ‘European identity’ is a vanguard phenomenon.
Maurizio Ferrara
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199284665
- eISBN:
- 9780191603273
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199284660.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Economy
This chapter presents a map describing the new spatial architecture of social protection in the European Union resulting from free movement and competition rules, and their effects on traditional ...
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This chapter presents a map describing the new spatial architecture of social protection in the European Union resulting from free movement and competition rules, and their effects on traditional welfare state boundaries. The destructuring consequences of the new boundary configuration are discussed, with specific reference to pensions systems and the issue of migration. The chapter concludes by highlighting the margins of manoeuvre for a possible “nesting” of nation-based forms of social protection in a wider EU space, capable of promoting adaptation and reform, while upholding at the same time the basic pre-conditions for maintaining adequate levels of social protection.Less
This chapter presents a map describing the new spatial architecture of social protection in the European Union resulting from free movement and competition rules, and their effects on traditional welfare state boundaries. The destructuring consequences of the new boundary configuration are discussed, with specific reference to pensions systems and the issue of migration. The chapter concludes by highlighting the margins of manoeuvre for a possible “nesting” of nation-based forms of social protection in a wider EU space, capable of promoting adaptation and reform, while upholding at the same time the basic pre-conditions for maintaining adequate levels of social protection.
Juan Díez Medrano
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199594627
- eISBN:
- 9780191595738
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199594627.003.0017
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Political Theory
Juan Díez Medrano focuses on citizen representations and, more generally, on views on Europe expressed by actors in the public sphere. While occasionally these actors are intellectuals, they are more ...
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Juan Díez Medrano focuses on citizen representations and, more generally, on views on Europe expressed by actors in the public sphere. While occasionally these actors are intellectuals, they are more often than not politicians or representatives from interest groups. Either because European stories lose their national‐specific narrative structure as they travel from intellectuals to public actors and citizens, or because public actors and citizens autonomously develop their representations of Europe, the fact is that national public spheres portray European integration in very similar ways. Therefore, Medrano argues that viewed from the public sphere and the citizens' perspective, the most relevant story to be told about the European Union is one of convergence, with similar cross‐national representations of the European Union and a common political identity project.Less
Juan Díez Medrano focuses on citizen representations and, more generally, on views on Europe expressed by actors in the public sphere. While occasionally these actors are intellectuals, they are more often than not politicians or representatives from interest groups. Either because European stories lose their national‐specific narrative structure as they travel from intellectuals to public actors and citizens, or because public actors and citizens autonomously develop their representations of Europe, the fact is that national public spheres portray European integration in very similar ways. Therefore, Medrano argues that viewed from the public sphere and the citizens' perspective, the most relevant story to be told about the European Union is one of convergence, with similar cross‐national representations of the European Union and a common political identity project.
Frédéric Mérand
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199533244
- eISBN:
- 9780191714474
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533244.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, European Union
The chapter explains how strategic state actors interpreted the post-Cold War European security crisis, and sought to propose different institutional solutions which, to a lesser or greater extent, ...
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The chapter explains how strategic state actors interpreted the post-Cold War European security crisis, and sought to propose different institutional solutions which, to a lesser or greater extent, called for the overlapping of the international defense and European foreign policy fields, and thus the creation of a new, larger field of social interaction. One of these solutions was ESDP, but others were proposed, notably the revitalization of the Western European Union and the European security and defense identity. Taking a closer look at the creation of ESDP, the chapter highlights the contingent and creative dimension of the “interstitial” formation of a transgovernmental field.Less
The chapter explains how strategic state actors interpreted the post-Cold War European security crisis, and sought to propose different institutional solutions which, to a lesser or greater extent, called for the overlapping of the international defense and European foreign policy fields, and thus the creation of a new, larger field of social interaction. One of these solutions was ESDP, but others were proposed, notably the revitalization of the Western European Union and the European security and defense identity. Taking a closer look at the creation of ESDP, the chapter highlights the contingent and creative dimension of the “interstitial” formation of a transgovernmental field.
Paolo Bellucci, David Sanders, and Fabio Serricchio
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199602346
- eISBN:
- 9780191739163
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602346.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Comparative Politics
This chapter analyses individual and national differences in the intensity of European identity, and provides an assessment of the many factors that sustain or hinder the development of a European ...
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This chapter analyses individual and national differences in the intensity of European identity, and provides an assessment of the many factors that sustain or hinder the development of a European identification among citizens of EU member states. A model of the intensity of EU identity – comprising feelings of EU belonging and their salience – is elaborated, taking account of the various perspectives outlined above (cognitive mobilization, instrumental rationality, political mobilization, national identity), and their distinct explanatory power across the European public is examined. Socio-structural individual level characteristics as well as system-level features are found to exert modest effects on identity. Cognitive mobilization and instrumental ‘rational’ considerations are far more important in framing the image of Europe and identification with it.Less
This chapter analyses individual and national differences in the intensity of European identity, and provides an assessment of the many factors that sustain or hinder the development of a European identification among citizens of EU member states. A model of the intensity of EU identity – comprising feelings of EU belonging and their salience – is elaborated, taking account of the various perspectives outlined above (cognitive mobilization, instrumental rationality, political mobilization, national identity), and their distinct explanatory power across the European public is examined. Socio-structural individual level characteristics as well as system-level features are found to exert modest effects on identity. Cognitive mobilization and instrumental ‘rational’ considerations are far more important in framing the image of Europe and identification with it.
Jolyon Howorth
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199283958
- eISBN:
- 9780191603297
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199283958.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
Common wisdom has it that European disagreements over the American-led invasion of Iraq killed the prospects for a European defense and foreign policy—but the common wisdom is wrong. In recent years, ...
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Common wisdom has it that European disagreements over the American-led invasion of Iraq killed the prospects for a European defense and foreign policy—but the common wisdom is wrong. In recent years, Europeans have moved fairly steadily in the direction of a meaningful European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). The member-states remain divided on many policy issues and a number of deep obstacles remain to a strong common policy. But few now question the idea that Europe should play a greater role on the world stage, and the past several years have seen modest but concrete steps toward that goal.Less
Common wisdom has it that European disagreements over the American-led invasion of Iraq killed the prospects for a European defense and foreign policy—but the common wisdom is wrong. In recent years, Europeans have moved fairly steadily in the direction of a meaningful European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP). The member-states remain divided on many policy issues and a number of deep obstacles remain to a strong common policy. But few now question the idea that Europe should play a greater role on the world stage, and the past several years have seen modest but concrete steps toward that goal.
Paul Bayley and Geoffrey Williams (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199602308
- eISBN:
- 9780191739156
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602308.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Comparative Politics
This volume examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of four EU countries — France, Italy, Poland, and the UK — through the use of an electronic corpus of newspapers and ...
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This volume examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of four EU countries — France, Italy, Poland, and the UK — through the use of an electronic corpus of newspapers and television news transcripts. This multilingual comparable corpus is composed of the entire contents of four newspapers published each country, collected over two periods of three months, and the transcriptions of two TV news broadcasts, collected over two periods of two months. The theoretical and methodological frameworks adopted include discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and corpus‐assisted discourse analysis. The individual chapters investigate various aspects of European identity as it is discursively construed in the news media of the different countries, such as Europe as a political and geographic entity, European Union institutions, European history, citizenship, and immigration. Based on a bottom-up orientation and using both quantitative and qualitative methods, all chapters but one use a comparative approach to the data, juxtaposing the journalist representations of Europe in two or more languages. The fundamental aim of the volume is to demonstrate how linguistic analysis, and in particular the study of large amounts of linguistic data, can make a vital contribution to the analysis of political and social issues.Less
This volume examines how Europe is represented linguistically in the news media of four EU countries — France, Italy, Poland, and the UK — through the use of an electronic corpus of newspapers and television news transcripts. This multilingual comparable corpus is composed of the entire contents of four newspapers published each country, collected over two periods of three months, and the transcriptions of two TV news broadcasts, collected over two periods of two months. The theoretical and methodological frameworks adopted include discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and corpus‐assisted discourse analysis. The individual chapters investigate various aspects of European identity as it is discursively construed in the news media of the different countries, such as Europe as a political and geographic entity, European Union institutions, European history, citizenship, and immigration. Based on a bottom-up orientation and using both quantitative and qualitative methods, all chapters but one use a comparative approach to the data, juxtaposing the journalist representations of Europe in two or more languages. The fundamental aim of the volume is to demonstrate how linguistic analysis, and in particular the study of large amounts of linguistic data, can make a vital contribution to the analysis of political and social issues.
Heinrich Best, György Lengyel, and Luca Verzichelli (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199602315
- eISBN:
- 9780191738951
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602315.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Comparative Politics
It has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating conflicts and ...
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It has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating conflicts and rivalries by consolidating a common power base and by pooling Europe’s economic resources. Nevertheless elites have remained the known unknowns of the European integration process. The present volume is designed to change this. Based on surveys of political and economic elites in 18 European countries, it is a comprehensive study of the visions, fears, cognitions, and values of members of national parliaments and top business leaders underlying their attitudes towards European integration. It also investigates political and economic elites’ embeddedness in transnational networks and their ability to communicate in multicultural settings. Our book strongly supports the view of an elitist character of the process of European integration on the one hand, while challenging the idea that European national elites have merged or are even merging into a coherent Eurelite on the other. As the 11 chapters of this book show, the process of European integration is much more colourful and even contradictory than concepts of a straightforward normative and structural integration suggest. In particular this process is deeply rooted in and conditional on the social and political settings in national contexts. The empirical basis for this book is provided by the data of the international IntUne project, which has for the first time created a comprehensive database combining coordinated surveys of Europe-related attitudes at the elite and general population level.Less
It has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating conflicts and rivalries by consolidating a common power base and by pooling Europe’s economic resources. Nevertheless elites have remained the known unknowns of the European integration process. The present volume is designed to change this. Based on surveys of political and economic elites in 18 European countries, it is a comprehensive study of the visions, fears, cognitions, and values of members of national parliaments and top business leaders underlying their attitudes towards European integration. It also investigates political and economic elites’ embeddedness in transnational networks and their ability to communicate in multicultural settings. Our book strongly supports the view of an elitist character of the process of European integration on the one hand, while challenging the idea that European national elites have merged or are even merging into a coherent Eurelite on the other. As the 11 chapters of this book show, the process of European integration is much more colourful and even contradictory than concepts of a straightforward normative and structural integration suggest. In particular this process is deeply rooted in and conditional on the social and political settings in national contexts. The empirical basis for this book is provided by the data of the international IntUne project, which has for the first time created a comprehensive database combining coordinated surveys of Europe-related attitudes at the elite and general population level.
Pierangelo Isernia, Irena Fiket, Fabio Serricchio, and Bettina Westle
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199602339
- eISBN:
- 9780199949908
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602339.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Comparative Politics
This chapter discusses three set of issues related to European identity. It first reviews the existing theoretical and empirical literature on European identity, organizing it around two major ...
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This chapter discusses three set of issues related to European identity. It first reviews the existing theoretical and empirical literature on European identity, organizing it around two major perspective, the neofunctionalist and the identitarian one. Second, it discusses the different ways European identity has been measured over time and it traces its evolution, based on different indicators, from the early 1970s up to 2007. The format of the question appears to be the most important element in explaining variation in levels of European identity, followed by the nation and, last, time. Third, the chapter assesses the relative weight the functional and identity models play in explaining variations in levels of European identity cross-nationally and over time. Using a pooled design, the results show that both functional and identity components are important in explaining variation in level of European identity over time and cross-nationally. As to identity, the quality of government index and the percentage of foreign workers are both significantly and negatively related to European identity. While all functional variables point in the right direction, length of duration of EU membership, a controversial and important indicator of the aggregate level of European identification, is found not significantly related with the aggregate level of European identity.Less
This chapter discusses three set of issues related to European identity. It first reviews the existing theoretical and empirical literature on European identity, organizing it around two major perspective, the neofunctionalist and the identitarian one. Second, it discusses the different ways European identity has been measured over time and it traces its evolution, based on different indicators, from the early 1970s up to 2007. The format of the question appears to be the most important element in explaining variation in levels of European identity, followed by the nation and, last, time. Third, the chapter assesses the relative weight the functional and identity models play in explaining variations in levels of European identity cross-nationally and over time. Using a pooled design, the results show that both functional and identity components are important in explaining variation in level of European identity over time and cross-nationally. As to identity, the quality of government index and the percentage of foreign workers are both significantly and negatively related to European identity. While all functional variables point in the right direction, length of duration of EU membership, a controversial and important indicator of the aggregate level of European identification, is found not significantly related with the aggregate level of European identity.
Agnes Czajka and Bora Isyar (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780748683369
- eISBN:
- 9780748697175
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748683369.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Is Europe’s crisis merely a financial one? It has been widely understood as such, yet its scope and implications far exceed Europe’s financial markets. As the crisis deepens, and the possibility of ...
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Is Europe’s crisis merely a financial one? It has been widely understood as such, yet its scope and implications far exceed Europe’s financial markets. As the crisis deepens, and the possibility of Europe’s dissolution emerges on the horizon, the authors of this volume argue that the contemporary crisis points to a much older, more fundamental and yet not unrelated crisis: the crisis of European identity. Diagnosed two decades ago by Jacques Derrida, it is a crisis to which Europe has thus far been unable to respond, yet one to which it must respond if it is to survive. Tackling issues ranging from Europe’s legal, institutional and cultural identity to its border, citizenship and integration policies, and its legacy for the future the book interrogates the various dimensions and contours of Europe’s contemporary crisis. By revisiting Derrida’s diagnosis of the crisis of European identity, it simultaneously proposes a new direction for Europe, and an alternative response to today’s crisis.Less
Is Europe’s crisis merely a financial one? It has been widely understood as such, yet its scope and implications far exceed Europe’s financial markets. As the crisis deepens, and the possibility of Europe’s dissolution emerges on the horizon, the authors of this volume argue that the contemporary crisis points to a much older, more fundamental and yet not unrelated crisis: the crisis of European identity. Diagnosed two decades ago by Jacques Derrida, it is a crisis to which Europe has thus far been unable to respond, yet one to which it must respond if it is to survive. Tackling issues ranging from Europe’s legal, institutional and cultural identity to its border, citizenship and integration policies, and its legacy for the future the book interrogates the various dimensions and contours of Europe’s contemporary crisis. By revisiting Derrida’s diagnosis of the crisis of European identity, it simultaneously proposes a new direction for Europe, and an alternative response to today’s crisis.
Heinrich Best, György Lengyel, and Luca Verzichelli
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199602315
- eISBN:
- 9780191738951
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602315.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Comparative Politics
This chapter defines the volume’s key concepts and introduces the main research questions addressed in the following chapters. Following a review of literature dealing with the challenges of European ...
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This chapter defines the volume’s key concepts and introduces the main research questions addressed in the following chapters. Following a review of literature dealing with the challenges of European integration, it focuses on the emergence of various forms of Euroscepticism, Europhobia, and Europhilia among different sectors of the national elites. The notion of Europeanness is introduced as a manifold and compound concept used to analyse differences among the national elites surveyed in this study. Three dimensions of Europeanness appear: emotive, cognitive, and projective. Finally, the chapter introduces the explicit empirical questions addressed by the various chapters: from the question of the career perspective in a supranational scenario, to the problems of European socialization of national representatives and economic stakeholders; from the question of the elite–masses gap to changes in the domestic political discourse of party elite. The methodological and theoretical approaches utilized in the different chapters are also discussed.Less
This chapter defines the volume’s key concepts and introduces the main research questions addressed in the following chapters. Following a review of literature dealing with the challenges of European integration, it focuses on the emergence of various forms of Euroscepticism, Europhobia, and Europhilia among different sectors of the national elites. The notion of Europeanness is introduced as a manifold and compound concept used to analyse differences among the national elites surveyed in this study. Three dimensions of Europeanness appear: emotive, cognitive, and projective. Finally, the chapter introduces the explicit empirical questions addressed by the various chapters: from the question of the career perspective in a supranational scenario, to the problems of European socialization of national representatives and economic stakeholders; from the question of the elite–masses gap to changes in the domestic political discourse of party elite. The methodological and theoretical approaches utilized in the different chapters are also discussed.
David Sanders, Pedro Magalhaes, and Gabor Toka (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199602339
- eISBN:
- 9780199949908
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602339.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Comparative Politics
This book provides a broad overview of the main trends in mass attitudes towards domestic politics and European integration from the 1970s until today. Particularly in the last two decades, the ‘end ...
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This book provides a broad overview of the main trends in mass attitudes towards domestic politics and European integration from the 1970s until today. Particularly in the last two decades, the ‘end of the permissive consensus’ around European integration has forced analysts to place public opinion at the centre of their concerns. The book faces this challenge head on, and the overview it provides goes well beyond the most commonly used indicators. On the one hand, it shows how integration's deepening and enlargement involved polities and societies whose fundamental traits in terms of political culture — regime support, political engagement, ideological polarization — have remained anything but static or homogeneous. On the other hand, it addresses systematically what Scharpf (1999) has long identified as the main sources of the democratic deficits of the EU: the lack of a sense of collective identity, the lack of a Europe-wide structure for political accountability, and the lack of recognition of the EU as a legitimate political authority. In other words, it focuses on the fundamental dimensions of how Europeans relate to the EU: identity (the sense of an ‘European political community’; representation (the perception that European elites and institutions articulate citizens' interests and are responsive to them); and policy scope (the legitimacy awarded to the EU as a proper locus of policy-making). It does so by employing a cohesive theoretical framework derived from the entire IntUne project, survey and macro-social data encompassing all EU member countries, and state-of-the-art methods.Less
This book provides a broad overview of the main trends in mass attitudes towards domestic politics and European integration from the 1970s until today. Particularly in the last two decades, the ‘end of the permissive consensus’ around European integration has forced analysts to place public opinion at the centre of their concerns. The book faces this challenge head on, and the overview it provides goes well beyond the most commonly used indicators. On the one hand, it shows how integration's deepening and enlargement involved polities and societies whose fundamental traits in terms of political culture — regime support, political engagement, ideological polarization — have remained anything but static or homogeneous. On the other hand, it addresses systematically what Scharpf (1999) has long identified as the main sources of the democratic deficits of the EU: the lack of a sense of collective identity, the lack of a Europe-wide structure for political accountability, and the lack of recognition of the EU as a legitimate political authority. In other words, it focuses on the fundamental dimensions of how Europeans relate to the EU: identity (the sense of an ‘European political community’; representation (the perception that European elites and institutions articulate citizens' interests and are responsive to them); and policy scope (the legitimacy awarded to the EU as a proper locus of policy-making). It does so by employing a cohesive theoretical framework derived from the entire IntUne project, survey and macro-social data encompassing all EU member countries, and state-of-the-art methods.
Rachael Craufurd Smith
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199275472
- eISBN:
- 9780191699825
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199275472.003.0009
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law
Due to the way Article 151 of the EC Treaty attempts to deal with the heritage and cultural history that is shared by European people because of their European significance, the underlying principles ...
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Due to the way Article 151 of the EC Treaty attempts to deal with the heritage and cultural history that is shared by European people because of their European significance, the underlying principles for this Article involve cultivating support for the European Union and strengthening the identification of Europe as a cultural and geographical area. The Council believes that the mutual knowledge of various European cultures and how such cultures give much importance to diversity, democracy, freedom, and solidarity, plays no small part in fostering European integration. Community activity in terms of cultural affairs will experience significant effects if Article 151 is indeed focused on advocating measures of European integration. While the European Union already possesses its own judicial system and political institutions and is expanding its concerns to defence and policing, this chapter examines whether a European identity should be established for the further development of the European Union.Less
Due to the way Article 151 of the EC Treaty attempts to deal with the heritage and cultural history that is shared by European people because of their European significance, the underlying principles for this Article involve cultivating support for the European Union and strengthening the identification of Europe as a cultural and geographical area. The Council believes that the mutual knowledge of various European cultures and how such cultures give much importance to diversity, democracy, freedom, and solidarity, plays no small part in fostering European integration. Community activity in terms of cultural affairs will experience significant effects if Article 151 is indeed focused on advocating measures of European integration. While the European Union already possesses its own judicial system and political institutions and is expanding its concerns to defence and policing, this chapter examines whether a European identity should be established for the further development of the European Union.
Russell A. Miller
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199795208
- eISBN:
- 9780199919307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199795208.003.0048
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
The third essay in Habermas's collection The Divided West is entitled “February 15, or: What Binds Europeans.” The essay regionalizes the global claims Habermas makes in the longer chapter “Does the ...
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The third essay in Habermas's collection The Divided West is entitled “February 15, or: What Binds Europeans.” The essay regionalizes the global claims Habermas makes in the longer chapter “Does the Constitutionalization of International Law Still Have a Chance?” That is, in “February 15,” Habermas makes the case for a European postnational order that he hopes will become the vanguard for the emergence of universal cosmopolitanism. Habermas concludes that all that is lacking for the achievement of this beachhead from which Europe can, in its turn, champion a “community of free and equal citizens” in a “global public sphere,” is a “European identity.” This chapter calls into question Habermas's conclusions about a European identity. It argues, by reference to Ian McEwan's novel Saturday, that Habermas overlooked the rich, persistent diversity that is the true wonder of Europe.Less
The third essay in Habermas's collection The Divided West is entitled “February 15, or: What Binds Europeans.” The essay regionalizes the global claims Habermas makes in the longer chapter “Does the Constitutionalization of International Law Still Have a Chance?” That is, in “February 15,” Habermas makes the case for a European postnational order that he hopes will become the vanguard for the emergence of universal cosmopolitanism. Habermas concludes that all that is lacking for the achievement of this beachhead from which Europe can, in its turn, champion a “community of free and equal citizens” in a “global public sphere,” is a “European identity.” This chapter calls into question Habermas's conclusions about a European identity. It argues, by reference to Ian McEwan's novel Saturday, that Habermas overlooked the rich, persistent diversity that is the true wonder of Europe.
Theresa Kuhn
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199688913
- eISBN:
- 9780191768026
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688913.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
European integration has generated a wide array of economic, political, and social opportunities beyond the nation state. Scandinavians spending their retirement at the Mediterranean coast; Germans ...
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European integration has generated a wide array of economic, political, and social opportunities beyond the nation state. Scandinavians spending their retirement at the Mediterranean coast; Germans employing a Polish caretaker; international exchange students staying in Prague; Italian baristas serving cappuccino in British coffee shops—they are all part of an integrating Europe and seem to reflect the ‘Unity in diversity’ that is desired by European policy makers. As an early theorist of European integration, Karl Deutsch expected this development to promote a collective identity and support for European integration: by interacting across borders, Europeans would become aware of their shared values and beliefs, appreciate the benefits of integration and eventually acquire a common ‘we-feeling’. This book puts these expectations under scrutiny by developing a comprehensive theoretical model of how transnational interactions relate to orientations towards European integration. The central argument of this book is that there is a significant relationship between individual transnationalism and orientations towards European integration at the individual level, but that transactions are socially stratified, their effectiveness is dependent on their purpose and scope, and they can foment negative externalities among Europeans who are not transnationally active themselves. An extensive analysis of survey data covering the 27 EU member states provides a thorough empirical test of transactionalist hypotheses.Less
European integration has generated a wide array of economic, political, and social opportunities beyond the nation state. Scandinavians spending their retirement at the Mediterranean coast; Germans employing a Polish caretaker; international exchange students staying in Prague; Italian baristas serving cappuccino in British coffee shops—they are all part of an integrating Europe and seem to reflect the ‘Unity in diversity’ that is desired by European policy makers. As an early theorist of European integration, Karl Deutsch expected this development to promote a collective identity and support for European integration: by interacting across borders, Europeans would become aware of their shared values and beliefs, appreciate the benefits of integration and eventually acquire a common ‘we-feeling’. This book puts these expectations under scrutiny by developing a comprehensive theoretical model of how transnational interactions relate to orientations towards European integration. The central argument of this book is that there is a significant relationship between individual transnationalism and orientations towards European integration at the individual level, but that transactions are socially stratified, their effectiveness is dependent on their purpose and scope, and they can foment negative externalities among Europeans who are not transnationally active themselves. An extensive analysis of survey data covering the 27 EU member states provides a thorough empirical test of transactionalist hypotheses.
Paolo Segatti and Bettina Westle
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- June 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198732907
- eISBN:
- 9780191796937
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732907.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
The chapter provides an overview on why European identity has become a key issue in European studies over the past two decades. It assesses the extent to which different approaches to what national ...
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The chapter provides an overview on why European identity has become a key issue in European studies over the past two decades. It assesses the extent to which different approaches to what national identity is helps to understand also what a European identity may be. It claims that European identity as well as national identity should be empirically assessed taking into account their multidimensionality (emotional attachment, identity meanings, horizontal solidarity). It illustrates what the book chapters deal with and how they approach the multidimensional relations between European identity and national identity. It provides a thorough analysis of how the different conceptual dimensions of European and national identities can be operationalized.Less
The chapter provides an overview on why European identity has become a key issue in European studies over the past two decades. It assesses the extent to which different approaches to what national identity is helps to understand also what a European identity may be. It claims that European identity as well as national identity should be empirically assessed taking into account their multidimensionality (emotional attachment, identity meanings, horizontal solidarity). It illustrates what the book chapters deal with and how they approach the multidimensional relations between European identity and national identity. It provides a thorough analysis of how the different conceptual dimensions of European and national identities can be operationalized.
John Morley
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199602308
- eISBN:
- 9780191739156
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602308.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union, Comparative Politics
The final chapter provides an overall assessment of the methodologies used in the volume, the problems related to working with newspaper and TV news data, and the intricacies of providing comparative ...
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The final chapter provides an overall assessment of the methodologies used in the volume, the problems related to working with newspaper and TV news data, and the intricacies of providing comparative analyses of equivalent lexical items in different languages. It concludes by arguing that despite the different approaches that linguists and mainstream political and social scientists have towards the data they are studying, the analysis of language can usefully complement the analysis of politics.Less
The final chapter provides an overall assessment of the methodologies used in the volume, the problems related to working with newspaper and TV news data, and the intricacies of providing comparative analyses of equivalent lexical items in different languages. It concludes by arguing that despite the different approaches that linguists and mainstream political and social scientists have towards the data they are studying, the analysis of language can usefully complement the analysis of politics.
Janell Watson
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748632879
- eISBN:
- 9780748652549
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748632879.003.0010
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Exploring the complex relation between minority, ethnicity and European identity, this chapter puts Deleuze's concepts to use to break with the paradigm of identity that fuels much left intellectual ...
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Exploring the complex relation between minority, ethnicity and European identity, this chapter puts Deleuze's concepts to use to break with the paradigm of identity that fuels much left intellectual intervention on the question of Europe. It draws the political issues of Europe into the terrain of structure and relation through a consideration of Deleuze and Guattari's figure of the minoritarian, a concept that seems to anticipate the patterns of power and politics of contemporary global culture – ‘ours’, as they say, ‘is becoming the age of minorities’. Working through problematics of race, borders, nationhood and the state-form, minority emerges here as both a dynamic of control and the field of progressive and inventive political expression.Less
Exploring the complex relation between minority, ethnicity and European identity, this chapter puts Deleuze's concepts to use to break with the paradigm of identity that fuels much left intellectual intervention on the question of Europe. It draws the political issues of Europe into the terrain of structure and relation through a consideration of Deleuze and Guattari's figure of the minoritarian, a concept that seems to anticipate the patterns of power and politics of contemporary global culture – ‘ours’, as they say, ‘is becoming the age of minorities’. Working through problematics of race, borders, nationhood and the state-form, minority emerges here as both a dynamic of control and the field of progressive and inventive political expression.
Radoslaw Markowski and Michal Kotnarowski
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- June 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198732907
- eISBN:
- 9780191796937
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732907.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, European Union
The more qualitative a given polity is, either in terms of macro-economic indicators or because of the quality of their democracy, the more pronounced is the relation between national identity and ...
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The more qualitative a given polity is, either in terms of macro-economic indicators or because of the quality of their democracy, the more pronounced is the relation between national identity and European identity. The change in contextual macro-factors does not matter at all for the relationship between partisan and European identity. The increase in the quality of these macro-contextual factors exerts a very differentiated impact on the ideological identities’ effect on European identity, described above: ‘leftist’ identities become important in case of democratic and policy implementation phenomena improvement, while a ‘rightist’ orientation enhances EU-identity when basic economic indicators improve. Here the relationship between national and European identity is called a basic bond linkage. Data presented support this strong wording; indeed the relationship between national attachment and European identity is positive, strong and statistically significant irrespectively of (almost) any other allegedly important impacts and contextual factors.Less
The more qualitative a given polity is, either in terms of macro-economic indicators or because of the quality of their democracy, the more pronounced is the relation between national identity and European identity. The change in contextual macro-factors does not matter at all for the relationship between partisan and European identity. The increase in the quality of these macro-contextual factors exerts a very differentiated impact on the ideological identities’ effect on European identity, described above: ‘leftist’ identities become important in case of democratic and policy implementation phenomena improvement, while a ‘rightist’ orientation enhances EU-identity when basic economic indicators improve. Here the relationship between national and European identity is called a basic bond linkage. Data presented support this strong wording; indeed the relationship between national attachment and European identity is positive, strong and statistically significant irrespectively of (almost) any other allegedly important impacts and contextual factors.
