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European Union--the second founding : the changing rationale of European integration
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The author is presenting a broadly structured study about the first fifty years of European integration, its geopolitical context and academic reflection. His study is based on the two-fold thesis ...
The author is presenting a broadly structured study about the first fifty years of European integration, its geopolitical context and academic reflection. His study is based on the two-fold thesis that since a few years, the European Union is going through a process of its Second Founding while simultaneously changing its rationale.
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- Creator
- Ludger Kühnhardt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1. Aufl
- Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (670 pages) : maps
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- ISBNs
- 9783832935023, 3832935029, 9783845210285, 3845210281, 9783832935023
- OCLC
- on1035794099
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-648) and index.
- English.
- The second founding. From national identities to European constitutionalism ; Europe's constitution -- Challenge and response. 1957-1979, institutions consolidated ; 1979-1993, economies integrated ; 1993-2009, politics Europeanized -- Global setting. Transatlantic relations : the bonds that hold ; Globalization and the changing rationale for European integration ; The global proliferation of region-building -- 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 -- Prospects. Toward European patriotism? ; Defining Europe's global interests