A Community of Europeans?: Transnational Identities and Public Spheres

Thomas Risse

Published by Cornell University Press 2011

A Community of Europeans?

Transnational Identities and Public Spheres

Thomas Risse

In the series Cornell paperbacks

https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801459184

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About this book

Thomas Risse evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres, arguing that integration has had profound and long-term effects on the citizens of EU countries.

Author / Editor information

Thomas Risse is Professor of International Politics, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. He is coeditor of The End of the West? Conflict and Change in the Atlantic Order, also from Cornell, and author of books including Cooperation among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy.

Reviews

Neil Fligstein, University of California, Berkeley:

Thomas Risse has taken up the hard question of whether or not a European public sphere exists. He has tentatively answered 'yes.' But, he also has a realistic view of the limits of that sphere and the political forces that affect the possibility of that sphere expanding, contracting or leading to bad outcomes. His perspective marks a clear position in this important debate about the future of Europe. This makes the book well worth reading.

Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Boston University:

This timely and important book spans sociology, comparative politics, and international relations. Thomas Risse was one of the first to write about European identity issues as well as about the European public sphere; he combines sophisticated quantitative methodology with careful qualitative analysis.

Gary Marks, Chair in Multilevel Governance, VU Amsterdam, and Burton Craige Professor, UNC–Chapel Hill:

In a book that will become a classic, Thomas Risse provides a fascinating, comprehensive, and wise analysis of European identity. This book is a model of conceptual clarity, empirical richness, and theoretical acuity that is certain to shape both the field of European studies and debate about the future of Europe.

Thomas Banchoff, Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University:

A Community of Europeans? is a pathbreaking contribution that brings together the main strands of theoretical and policy debate since the EU's current identity crisis began in the early 1990s and evaluates them against the best and most up-to-date empirical data. Thomas Risse has been a leading voice in these debates since their inception.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Introduction: The Europeanization Of Identities And Public Spheres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: An Emerging European Identity?
1. Collective Identities: Conceptual And Methodological Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Multiple Europes: The Europeanization Of Citizens’ Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Modern Europe And Its Discontents: The Europeanization Of Elite Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
4. Europeanization Of National Identities: Explanations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Part II: An Emerging European Public Sphere?
5. Transnational Public Spheres: Conceptual Questions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
6. The Gradual Europeanization Of Public Spheres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
7. A European Community Of Communication? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Part III: Consequences
8. “Deepening”: European Institution-Building Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
9. “Widening”: Eu Enlargement And Contested Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	204
10. European Democracy And Politicization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Conclusions: Defending Modern Europe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 304
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- Other: 8 charts/graphs
Keywords: european identity; european integration; policymaking in the eu; democratic deficit of the eu; euroskepticism

eBook

Published: January 15, 2011
ISBN: 9780801459184