European Union--the second founding
Subtitle: the changing rationale of European integration
By: Ludger Kühnhardt.
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Series: Schriften des Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung, Center for European Integration Studies der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn -- Bd. 67
Publisher: Nomos
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baden-Baden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 670
ISBN-13: 9783832935023
Subjects: European Union -- History; Globalization -- European Union countries; European cooperation -- History; Europe -- Economic integration -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century; European Union countries -- Economic integration -- History; European Union countries -- Politics and government -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 585-648) and index.
Table of contents: title: The second founding. From national identities to European constitutionalism ; Europe's constitution; title: Challenge and response. 1957-1979, institutions consolidated ; 1979-1993, economies integrated ; 1993-2009, politics Europeanized; title: Global setting. Transatlantic relations : the bonds that hold ; Globalization and the changing rationale for European integration ; The global proliferation of region-building; title: 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; title: Prospects. Toward European patriotism? ; Defining Europe's global interests.