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Informationen zum Autor 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 Klappentext `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. Zusammenfassung 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 in Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Thomas Christiansen, Knud Erik J[sl]orgensen and Antje Wiener PART ONE: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM AND THEORIZING EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Does Constructivism Subsume Neofunctionalism? - Ernst B Haas Understanding the European Union as a Federal Polity - Rey Koslowski Social Construction and European Integration - Jeffrey T Checkel PART TWO: SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIST PERSPECTIVES IN STUDIES OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Postnational Constitutionalism in the European Union - Jo Shaw Speaking `Europe¿ - Thomas Diez The Politics of Integration Discourse Constructing Europe? - Martin Marcussen, Thomas Risse, Daniela Englemann-Martin, Hans-Joachim Knopf and Klaus Roscher The Evolution of Nation State Identities Constructing Institutional Interests - K M Fierke and Antje Wiener EU and NATO Enlargement Reconstructing a Common European Foreign Policy - Kenneth Glarbo Discourses of Globalization and European Identities - Ben Rosamond PART THREE: DEBATING APPROACHES TO EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Constructivism and European Integration - Andrew Moravcsik A Critique Social Constructivisms and European Studies - Steve Smith The Social Construction of Social Constructivism - Thomas Risse and Antje Wiener ...
