| European Identity Contributor(s): Checkel, Jeffrey T. (Editor), Katzenstein, Peter J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521709539 ISBN-13: 9780521709538 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: An ambitious volume which asks why hopes are fading for a single European identity, despite decades of European integration. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 320.94 |
| Series: Contemporary European Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.00 lbs) 280 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Katzenstein, Peter J.: - Peter J. Katzenstein is Walter S. Carpenter, Jr Professor of International Studies in the Department of Government at Cornell University, New York.Checkel, Jeffrey T.: - Jeffrey T. Checkel is the Simons Chair in International Law and Human Security in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia and Adjunct Research Professor in the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. |