European identity / edited by Jeffrey T. Checkel, Peter J. Katzenstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Checkel, Jeffrey T., 1959- editor.

Katzenstein, Peter J., editor.

Series:

Contemporary European politics.

Contemporary European politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, European.

Group identity--European Union countries.

Group identity.

Citizenship--European Union countries.

Citizenship.

European Union countries--Politics and government.

European Union countries.

European Union countries--Economic integration.

European Union countries--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The politicization of European identities / Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein

Part I. European Identity as project. Political identity in a community of strangers / Dario Castiglione

Experimental identities (after Maastricht) / Douglas R. Holmes

The public sphere and the European Union's political identity / Juan Díez Medrano

Part II. European Identity as process. Being European : east and west / Holly Case

Who are the Europeans and how does this matter for politics? / Neil Fligstein

Immigration, migration, and free movement in the making of Europe / Adrian Favell

Part III. European Identity in context .Identification with Europe and politicization of the EU since the 1980s / Hartmut Kaelble

Conclusion : European identity in context / Peter J. Katzenstein and Jeffrey T. Checkel.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-258) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20009-1

1-282-00180-9

0-511-48016-4

9786612001802

0-511-80624-8

0-511-48096-2

0-511-47782-1

0-511-47631-0

0-511-47934-4

OCLC:

320853304