Negotiating Europe [electronic resource] : EU Promotion of Europeanness since the 1950s /
Calligaro, O.author.
The book explores the promotion of Europeanness, which aims to arouse feelings of belonging to the European Union. It demonstrates that the promotion of Europeanness at the EU level does not constitute an overarching identity policy that imposes a homogenous interpretation of European identity. Rather, it is a process of negotiation in which various entrepreneurs of Europeanness within and outside the EU institutions invent and communicate representations of Europe. Both the negotiation and the multilayered representations of Europe that it produces are investigated through three case studies: the academia and the historians, European heritage, and the iconography of the euro.
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Cover; Tittle; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Identity, Culture, and Political Symbolism in the European Integration Process: A Brief Account of the Literature; 2. Negotiating the Representation of Europe: The EU and the Noninstitutional Actors; 3. Chronology, Method, and Sources; 4. Structure of the Book; 1 The European Commission's Action in the Academic and Historical Fields; I. The Jean Monnet Action: "Europe in the University Programs"; 1. Background: The Commission's University Information Policy
1.1 The Universities: A Specific Target of European Information1.2 The First Initiatives in the Academic Milieu; 1.3 The Promotion of European Studies: The French Case and the Role of Émile Noël; 2. The Jean Monnet Action: An Initiative of the University Information Unit of the DG X in Partnership with the Academic Actors; 2.1 European Chairs: An Old Concept Relaunched in 1987; 2.2 The Project of European Chairs: A Concept of the Commission . . .; 2.3 . . . Which Involved at an Early Stage University Actors; 3. Launching the Jean Monnet Action: The Institutional Process
3.1 Presenting the Project to the European Commission3.2 The Approval of the Council and the Battle of the Budget; 4. The Development of the Jean Monnet Action; 4.1 A Mediator between the European Commission and the Universities: The European University Council for the Jean Monnet Action; 4.2 The Success of the Jean Monnet Action: A "Punctual Action" that Became a Large-Scale Program; 4.3 The Reform of the Commission and the End of the "University Information" Concept; II. The European Commission and Historians: The Failed Utopia of a Militant Approach to European History?
1. The Promotion of a New Field of Research: European Integration History1.1 A First Tentative Measure: European Integration History at the European University Institute; 1.2 A New Attempt: The Symposium of Professors of Contemporary History in 1982; 2. The Liaison Committee of Historians, an Ambiguous Creation of the European Commission; 2.1 Who Sets the Agenda of the Liaison Committee of Historians?; 2.2 The Specific Case of Oral History; 2.3 The Project "European Identity and Consciousness in the Twentieth Century"; 3. A European History of Europe: The Duroselle/ Delouche Project
3.1 Competing Projects on History of Europe3.2 The Delouche/Duroselle Project: A Teleological Vision of European History; 3.3 The European Commission's Support; 3.4 The Greek Protests and the Commission's Disengagement; 4. The Reconfiguration of the Relations between the European Commission and Historians; 4.1 The Supplanting of the Liaison Committee by the Jean Monnet Network: The Example of the Project of Oral History; 4.2 The Discontent of the Commission Concerning the Liaison Committee; 4.3 The History of the European Commission: An Institutional Project; Conclusion
2 Using and Negotiating European Cultural Heritage
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The book explores the promotion of Europeanness, which aims to arouse feelings of belonging to the European Union. It demonstrates that the promotion of Europeanness at the EU level does not constitute an overarching identity policy that imposes a homogenous interpretation of European identity. Rather, it is a process of negotiation in which various entrepreneurs of Europeanness within and outside the EU institutions invent and communicate representations of Europe. Both the negotiation and the multilayered representations of Europe that it produces are investigated through three case studies: the academia and the historians, European heritage, and the iconography of the euro.
International organization.
Political sociology.
European Union.
International relations.
Europe-Politics and government.
Political science.
International Organization.
Political Sociology.
European Union Politics.
International Relations.
European Politics.
Political Science.