num_pages: 290
description: The accelerated pace of European integration since the early 1990s has been accompanied by the emergence of increasingly prominent and multiform oppositions to the process. The term Euroscepticism has appeared with growing frequency in a range of political, media, and academic discourses. Yet, the label is applied to a wide range of different, and occasionally contradictory, phenomena. Although originally associated with an English exceptionalism relative to a Continental project of political and economic integration, the term Euroscepticism is now also identified with a more general questioning of European Union institutions and policies which finds diverse expressions across the entire continent. This volume of European Studies brings together an interdisciplinary team of contributors to provide one of the first major, multinational surveys of the growth of these Eurosceptic tendencies. Individual chapters provide detailed examinations of developments in ! France, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Switzerland. Overall, the volume draws a distinctive portrait of contemporary Euroscepticism, situating the phenomenon not only relative to the progress of European integration, but also in relation to broader questions concerned with the evolution of party politics and the reshaping of national identities. Authors in this volume Robert HARMSEN and Menno Euroscepticism and the Evolution of European Political Debate Paul HAINSWORTH, Carolyn O’BRIEN and Paul Defending the The Politics of Eurosceptisicm on the French Right Susan For an Alternative Euroscepticism and the French Left Since the Maastricht Treaty Klaus BUSCH and Wilhelm German Euroscepticism Robert Euroscepticism in the Stirrings of Dissent Menno British Euroscepticism Peter J. A Flag of Convenience? Discourse and Motivations of the London-based Eurosceptic Press Karin Irish Euroscepticism Milena Swedish Democracy, Sovereignty and Welfare Anton Austrian The Shift From the Left to the Right Petr KOPECKÝ: An Awkward Newcomer? EU Enlargement and Euroscepticism in the Czech Republic Aleks Polish Euroscepticism in the Run-up to EU Accession Clive H. Swiss Local Variations on Wider Themes
language: English
title: Euroscepticism: Party Politics, National Identity and European Integration
titlecomplete: Euroscepticism: Party Politics, National Identity and European Integration (European Studies 20)
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publisher: Rodopi