Negotiating Europe
Subtitle: EU Promotion of Europeanness since the 1950s
Publisher: AIAA; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 18, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781137369895
Description: 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 --
Notes: Source title: Negotiating Europe: EU Promotion of Europeanness since the 1950s (Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series)