The Social Construction of Europe

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Thomas Christiansen, Knud Erik Jørgensen, Antje Wiener
SAGE, Apr 3, 2001 - Political Science - 248 pages
`The Social Construction of Europe is a wonderful tool for scholars and advanced students concened with European integration′ - Nationalism and Ethical Politics

This book is the first to systematically introduce and apply a social constructivist perspective to the study of European integration. Social constructivism is carefully located in terms of its philosophical and methodological origins. The wider debates and contribution of constructivist approaches to international relations are reviewed, and the insights that might then be afforded to European studies fully explored.

Highlights include: new theoretical contributions to the debate by Ernst B. Haas, Andrew Moravcsik and Steve Smith; research on key aspects of European integration and EU governance applying a variety of constructivist approaches.

The Social Construction of Europe provides new and important insights to a key area of contemporary study and research.

 

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Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Part I Social Constructivism and theorizing european integration
21
Chapter 2 Does Constructivism Subsume Neofunctionalism?
22
Chapter 3 Understanding the European Union as a Federal Polity
32
Chapter 4 Social Construction and European Integration
50
Social constructivist perspectives in studies of european integration
65
Chapter 5 Postnational Constitutionalism in the European Union
66
The Politics of Integration Discourse
85
Chapter 9 Reconstructing a Common European Foreign Policy
140
Chapter 10 Discourses of Globalization and European Identities
158
Debating approaches to european integration
175
A Critique
176
Chapter 12 Social Constructivisms and European Studies
189
Chapter 13 The Social Construction of Social Constructivism
199
Bibliography
206
Notes on Contributors
237

Chapter 7 Constructing Europe? The Evolution of NationState Identities
101
EU and NATO Enlargement
121
Index
239
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About the author (2001)

Antje Wiener joined the Department in March 2007 as Professor of Politics and International Relations. Her Political Science degrees are from Carleton University, Canada (PhD 1996) and the Free University of Berlin (MA/Dipl Pol 1989). She has taught at the Free University of Berlin, Stanford University, Carleton University, the Universities of Sussex, Hannover, Queen′s Belfast and Trento. Her research and teaching interests are in International Relations theory and International Law, Global Constitutionalism and European Integration theory

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Social Construction of Europe
EditorsThomas Christiansen, Knud Erik Jørgensen, Antje Wiener
Editionunabridged
PublisherSAGE, 2001
ISBN1412931649, 9781412931649
Length248 pages
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