Record Nr.

UNINA9910810297203321

Titolo

European studies : past, present and future / / edited by Erik Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Agenda Publishing, , [2020]
©2020

ISBN

1-78821-285-1

1-78821-284-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 pages)

Collana

Understanding Europe: The Council for European studies book series

Disciplina

940

Soggetti

European communities - Research

Europe Study and teaching

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

; Part I, The study of Europe. The Council for European Studies at 50: looking back and looking ahead / Erik Bleich -- European studies as an intellectual field: a perspective from sociology / Michèle Lamont -- From Western civilization to critical European studies / Hélène B. Ducros and Louie Dean Valencia-García -- Beyond exceptionalism in European studies / Catherine Guisan -- Diversity or unity? The role of culture in European studies / Simon Fink and Lars Klein -- The horizons of European culture / Randall Halle -- Welcome to the "family": integration, identity, and inclusivity in European studies / Sarah Cooper and Koen Slootmaeckers -- Unexpected Europeanists: building a new cadre of European studies / William Collins Donahue and Martin Kagel -- Europe past, present, and future: changing governance in higher education / Beverly Barrett -- The future of European studies and higher education reform in Africa / Patricia W. Cummins.

; Part II, Lessons from Europe. Studying Europe as a path to understanding the state of democracy today / Sheri Berman -- Economic challenges and electoral politics in Europe / Peter A. Hall -- Lessons from Central Europe's dissidents / Lisa A. Baglione -- Federalism, borders, and citizenship / Willem Maas -- History's lessons from the single market and the Maastricht years? / George Ross -- The

extraordinary, taken-for-granted achievement of Europe's single market / Craig Parsons -- Economic and Monetary Union: a live issue after 50 years / Dermot Hodson and Alison Johnston -- Putting deprived neighborhoods back at the core of EU urban policy / Sonia De Gregorio Hurtado -- The political integration of the middle class / Paul Marx -- The leftovers: vulnerable populations in the global, post-industrial age / Cathie Jo Martin.

; Part III, The changing face of Europe. Nativism across the Atlantic: the end of exceptionalisms? / Jan Willem Duyvendak -- Governing migration: political contestation and policy formation / Jennifer Elrick and Oliver Schmidtke -- Can Europe recover from its latest wave of us-versus-them politics? / Karen Umansky, Alberto Spektorowski, and Joel Busher -- Fearing Muslims as the other / John R. Bowen -- The challenge of Europe's nations / Gregory Baldi -- Can European states be "countries of migration"? / Justin Gest -- Battling over Europe's identity: right-wing politics, religion, and an uncertain future / Fabio Capano -- Bosnia and Herzegovina between EU accession, unhealed trauma, and migrant crisis / Alma Jeftic -- Social movements as a solution to European aporia? / Marcos Ancelovici and Guya Accornero -- Belonging to Berlin: a case of bureaucratic dystopia, minority agency, and solidarity / Anlam Filiz.

; Part IV, Europe's future. Quo vadis Europa? / Juan Díez Medrano -- Exit, voice, or loyalty? The collapse of national elite consensus on Europe's future / Matthias Matthijs -- Differentiated integration through more integration, decentralization, and democracy / Vivien A. Schmidt -- Reflections on the direction of the European project / Mare Ushkovska -- The EU's rule-of-law crisis and the problem of diagonality / Csongor István Nagy -- More union, more states / Josep M. Colomer -- The EU's challenge with size, sovereignty, and mutual benefit / Ludmila Bogdan and Twamanguluka N. Nambili -- Brexit: the golden chalice of European demos formation? / Erin O'Leary -- Who wants to live forever? Europe / Veronica Anghel

; Part V, Reflections on Europe's world role. The world as invention / Benjamin Bennett -- Defensive institution building / Shawn Donnelly -- The EU and South-South cooperation / Shengqing Zhang -- The enduring promise of the EU / Harris Mylonas.

; Part VI, Final thoughts. Richie Havens, Beethoven, and the music of revolutions / Steven Johnson -- The dream of Europe: Camelot in the time of Mordred / Erik Jones.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1969 a small group of US scholars began discussing the possibility of starting a consortium of Western European Studies programmes. Europe was increasingly becoming an object of study and it was felt that greater coordination of the intellectual effort would help avoid duplication and further the acceleration of research. So began the Council for European Studies. In commemoration of the founding of the Council fifty years ago, this volume brings together some of the most influential Europeanists writing today to take stock of the subject and to consider the most fruitful avenues for future research. With European democracy seemingly under threat from populism on the left and the right, the economies of countries still struggling to emerge from a decade of recession and stagnating growth, environmental concerns paramount and the quest for social cohesion a distant goal, the contributors to this volume bring their insight to bear on the fertile ground that the EU and the continent more broadly offers for researchers across the social sciences and humanities.