European identity

Resource Information

The work European identity represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

European identity

Statement of responsibility

edited by Jeffrey T. Checkel and Peter J. Katzenstein

Creator

• Checkel, Jeffrey T., 1959-

Contributor

• Katzenstein, Peter J.

Editor

• Checkel, Jeffrey T., 1959-
• Katzenstein, Peter J.

Subject

• Europe -- Economic integration | Political aspects
• Europe -- Economic integration | Social aspects
• Europe -- Politics and government
• Europe -- Social conditions
• European Union
• Group identity -- Europe
• National characteristics, European
• Citizenship -- Europe

Language

eng

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--

Member of

• Contemporary European Politics

Assigning source

Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Contemporary European Politics
• Cambridge books online