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almafu_9960773441602883
Format:
1 online resource (271 p.)
ISBN:
9781626373167
Content:
Departing from traditional analyses based on internal measures, this book explores the creation of a European identity through the EU’s interaction with the external environment. The book concentrates on three broad areas—socioeconomic issues, foreign and security policy, and home affairs—each associated with a Maastricht pillar. The authors assess not only the benefits, but also the costs of attempts to assert a European identity. Referring to debates about the respective merits of deepening and widening, they address the equally important associated tradeoffs between exclusion and dilution: they point to the risks on the one hand of a Europe that excludes foreign goods, immigrants, and entire countries, and on the other of an unfocused definition of Europe that may dilute the very values that a “European identity” is intended to protect. Their systematic analysis breaks new ground on which to base future theorizing of European integration.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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1 Political Boundaries and Identity Trade-Offs --
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Part One: Conceptual and Historical Background --
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2 The Virtues of Inconsistency: Identity and Plurality in the Conceptualization of Europe --
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3 Example, Exception, or Both? Swiss National Identity in Perspective --
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Part Two: Europe’s Cultural Identity --
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4 From Cultural Protection to Political Culture? Media Policy and the European Union --
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5 Why the European Union Failed to Europeanize Its Audiovisual Policy --
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Part Three: Europe’s External Political Identity --
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6 European Identity, EU Expansion, and the Integration/Exclusion Nexus --
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7 Liberal Identity and Postnationalist Inclusion: The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union --
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Part Four: Europe’s Civic Identity --
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8 European Identity and Migration Policies --
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9 European Asylum Policies and the Search for a European Identity --
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Part Five: Conclusions for Theory and Policy --
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10 Exclusion Versus Dilution: Real or Imagined Trade-Off? --
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List of Acronyms --
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Selected Bibliography --
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The Contributors --
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Index --
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About the Book
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781626373167
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626373167
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626373167
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626373167
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626373167
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