Similar Search Results

Contesting EU Legitimacy: The Prominence, Content and Justification of Euroscepticism During 2009 EP Election Campaigns

Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - RECON - 2010

This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy … contestation, mediation and formation of public opinion in the public sphere. Our survey delivers original data on EU legitimacy …. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693810

European Identity Formation in the Public Sphere and in Foreign Policy

Risse, Thomas; Grabowsky, Jana Katharina - RECON - 2008

While in political debates identity is often considered as given, scholars of social sciences concentrate on the formation of new and particularly transnational identities. Insights from nationalism reveal mechanisms of identity formation but European integration has taken its own way. We...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040510

Enlargement in perspective: The EU’s quest for identity

Sjursen, Helene - RECON - 2007

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the identity problem of the European Union (EU). In order to do so the EU’s justifications of past and present enlargements are investigated. What kind of understanding of the EU do decisions to enlarge speak to? Given that the EU is based on more than...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040538

European identity constructions in public debates on wars and military interventions

Biegoń, Dominika - RECON - 2010

Drawing on the classical distinction between community (Gemeinschaft) and society (Gesellschaft) by Tönnies (1963) and the related analytical distinction between strong and weak forms of collective identities, this paper analyses European identity constructions in ‘future-of-Europe’-debates...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611206