Constructing Europes Identity : : The External Dimension / / ed. by Lars-Erik Cederman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Calhoun, Craig,; Cederman, Lars-Erik,; Dupont, Cédric,; Gowlland-Debbas, Vera,; Hug, Simon,; Huysmans, Jef,; Neumann, Iver B.,; Schimmelfennig, Frank,; Schlesinger, Philip R.,; Sciarini, Pascal,; Theiler, Tobias,
• HerausgeberIn: Cederman, Lars-Erik,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Political Boundaries and Identity Trade-Offs -- Part One: Conceptual and Historical Background -- 2 The Virtues of Inconsistency: Identity and Plurality in the Conceptualization of Europe -- 3 Example, Exception, or Both? Swiss National Identity in Perspective -- Part Two: Europe’s Cultural Identity -- 4 From Cultural Protection to Political Culture? Media Policy and the European Union -- 5 Why the European Union Failed to Europeanize Its Audiovisual Policy -- Part Three: Europe’s External Political Identity -- 6 European Identity, EU Expansion, and the Integration/Exclusion Nexus -- 7 Liberal Identity and Postnationalist Inclusion: The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union -- Part Four: Europe’s Civic Identity -- 8 European Identity and Migration Policies -- 9 European Asylum Policies and the Search for a European Identity -- Part Five: Conclusions for Theory and Policy -- 10 Exclusion Versus Dilution: Real or Imagined Trade-Off? -- List of Acronyms -- Selected Bibliography -- The Contributors -- Index -- About the Book