European Union - The Second Founding The Changing Rationale of European Integration

The author is presenting a broadly structured study about the first fifty years of European integration, its geopolitical context and academic reflection. His study is based on the two-fold thesis that since a few years, the European Union is going through a process of its Second Founding while simu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Kühnhardt, Ludger author (author)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2008
2008.
Colección:Schriften des Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI)
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009432228106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The second founding. From national identities to European constitutionalism ; Europe's constitution
  • Challenge and response. 1957-1979, institutions consolidated ; 1979-1993, economies integrated ; 1993-2009, politics Europeanized
  • Global setting. Transatlantic relations : the bonds that hold ; Globalization and the changing rationale for European integration ; The global proliferation of region-building
  • Ideas, norms, theories. Searching in vain : why European integration did not work earlier ; "For the sake of Europe" : prevailing normative disputes ; Academic evaluation : theorizing European integration
  • Prospects. Toward European patriotism? ; Defining Europe's global interests.