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Record Nr.

UNINA9910258745803321

Autore

Kühnhardt Ludger

Titolo

European Union - The Second Founding : : The Changing Rationale of European Integration / / Ludger Kühnhardt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2008

Baden-Baden : , : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.- KG, , 2008

ISBN

3-8452-1028-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (671 p.)

Collana

Schriften des Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI)

Disciplina

341.242/2

Soggetti

International relations

Europe Economic integration Political aspects History 20th century

European Union countries Economic integration

European Union countries Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.