Search for a European Identity - Values, Policies and Legitimacy of the European Union

Informationen zum Autor Furio Cerutti is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Florence, Italy. Sonia Lucarelli is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Politics, University of Bologna, Italy. Klappentext Stimulated by the crisis of legitimacy and identity suffered by the EU after the referenda on the Constitutional Treaty! this work develops a theoretical framework to examine the interplay between these two items in the problematic development of the EU into a fully-fledged political actor. It also features case studies. Zusammenfassung Makes the innovative effort of examining the interplay between political identity and legitimacy in the unprecedented but also unfinished development of the European Union into a fully fledged political actor. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Theorizing the Link between Identity and Legitimacy 1. Why Legitimacy and Political Identity are Connected to Each Other! Especially in the Case of the European Union 2. Identity! Legitimacy and Foreign Policy Part 2: Memory and Space 3. Europe! War and Remembrance 4. Identity and Capital Cities: European Nations and the European Union Part 3: Politics and Ethics: The Regulation of Technology 5. Global Warming and European Political Identity 6. EU Food Safety Policy and Public Debate 7. EU Red Biotechnology Regulations and European Values Part 4: Social and Civil Europe8. The European Social Model(s) and the Self Image of Europe 9. The Double Face of Civil Society Part 5: Outside the EU: Policies and Images 10. Human Rights Promotion 11. Judicial Policies and European Enlargement 12. How Do the Others See Us? European Political Identity and the External Image of the EU 13. Conclusions

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• Authors: CERUTTI FURIO LUCARELLI SONIA
• Assisted by: Furio Cerutti (Editor), Furio (University of Florence Cerutti (Editor), Cerutti Furio (Editor), Sonia Lucarelli (Editor), Sonia (University of Bologna Lucarelli (Editor), Lucarelli Sonia (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.06.2008
• EAN: 9780415446877
• ISBN: 978-0-415-44687-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 244 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Routledge/GARNET series; Routledge/GARNET series
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Politics and government