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European Union--the second founding : the changing rationale of European integration /

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 simu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kühnhardt, Ludger, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baden-Baden : Nomos, 2008.
Edition:1. Aufl.
Series:Schriften des Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung, Center for European Integration Studies der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn ; Bd. 67.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.