Constructing Europe's Identity: The External DimensionLars-Erik Cederman Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001 - 271 pages 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. |
Contents
Identity and Plurality | 35 |
Example Exception or Both? Swiss National | 57 |
From Cultural Protection to Political Culture? | 91 |
Why the European Union Failed to Europeanize | 115 |
European Identity EU Expansion and | 141 |
European Identity and Migration Policies | 189 |
European Asylum Policies and the Search | 213 |
Real | 233 |
List of Acronyms | 257 |
The Contributors | 263 |
About the Book 271 | |
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