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Thomas Risse - Community of Europeans? - 9780801446634 - V9780801446634
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Community of Europeans?

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Description for Community of Europeans? hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8. BIC Classification: JPSN2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 571.

In A Community of Europeans? a thoughtful observer of the ongoing project of European integration evaluates the state of the art about European identity and European public spheres. Thomas Risse argues that integration has had profound and long-term effects on the citizens of EU countries, most of whom now have at least a secondary "European identity" to complement their national identities. Risse also claims that we can see the gradual emergence of transnational European communities of communication. Exploring the outlines of this European identity and of the communicative spaces, Risse sheds light on some pressing questions: What do "Europe" and ... Read more

This focus on identity allows Risse to address the "democratic deficit" of the EU, the disparity between the level of decision making over increasingly relevant issues for peoples' lives (at the EU) and the level where politics plays itself out—in the member states. He argues that the EU's democratic deficit can only be tackled through politicization and that "debating Europe" might prove the only way to defend modern and cosmopolitan Europe against the increasingly forceful voices of Euroskepticism.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801446634
SKU
V9780801446634
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99-1

About Thomas Risse
Thomas Risse is Professor of International Politics, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. He is coeditor of The End of the West? Conflict and Change in the Atlantic Order, also from Cornell, and author of books including Cooperation among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy.

Reviews for Community of Europeans?
"A Community of Europeans? is a pathbreaking contribution that brings together the main strands of theoretical and policy debate since the EU's current identity crisis began in the early 1990s and evaluates them against the best and most up-to-date empirical data. Thomas Risse has been a leading voice in these debates since their inception."
Thomas Banchoff, Director of the ... Read more

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