02599nam 22004453a 450 991025874580332120211214195618.03-8452-1028-1(CKB)4340000000008344(OAPEN)644202(ScCtBLL)c70f221d-13b9-42bb-ba21-df284ea167f1(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/47084(EXLCZ)99434000000000834420211214i20082019 uu enguuuuu---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEuropean Union - The Second Founding : The Changing Rationale of European Integration /Ludger KühnhardtNomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG2008Baden-Baden :Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co.- KG,2008.1 online resource (671 p.)Schriften des Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI)3-8329-3502-9 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.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.International relationsbicsscEuropeEconomic integrationPolitical aspectsHistory20th centuryEuropean Union countriesEconomic integrationEuropean Union countriesPolitics and governmentInternational relations341.242/2Kühnhardt Ludger501278ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910258745803321European Union - The Second Founding2559700UNINA