European Integration and the Postmodern Condition: Governance, Democracy, Identity

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ISBN: 9780415246996 | 0415246997
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/5/2001

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This is the first book to look at the process of European integration by drawing on both established and new trends in post-modern thinking and analysis. The author stimulates fresh readings of the European issue, encouraging the development of new analytical horizons. This is a significant cutting-edge contribution to debates in politics, comparative politics and European studies.

Preface

Acknowledgements

European integration and the challenge of postmodernity

(27)

Global metamorphosis

(6)

Postmodernism and the humbling of knowledge

(4)

Unearthing the prosaic Europe

(4)

Postmodern nations and other hallucinations

(3)

Late/post-modernity and other critical-reflective positions

(10)

Globalization and Europeanization: Parallel processes (parallel puzzles)?

(30)

Globalization: The dominance of a discourse

(5)

Globalization as the end of politics

(6)

Commercialism@identity.org

(4)

Europeanization as a response to globalization

(7)

Postmodern strangers and the end of work

(8)

European identity beyond the state: Reading the EU

(33)

Europe between Gesellschaft and Gemeinschaft

(2)

National identity: Primordial, ephemeral?

(6)

Civic and ethnic Europeanism

(2)

European identity/affinity politics

(5)

Engineers of the European soul

(6)

Media, MAI and the cultural Maginot line

(12)

Sovereignty, territoriality and the representation of political space

(33)

Postmodern space and virginity

(3)

Obsolescent territoriality, divided sovereignty

(5)

Operational sovereignty

(4)

The EU as a new `sovereign'

103

(5)

Fuzzy logic and the intergovernmentalist fantasy

108

(4)

Neo-medievalism as a parable for postmodern Europe

112

(12)

European governance and the pursuit of promiscuous policy-making

124

(31)

The necessity of governance

124

(4)

Of postmodern masculinity, levels, networks

128

(6)

Power/knowledge, civil association and transversalism

134

(6)

Garbage cans and bureaucratic politics

140

(4)

Regions and Europe's decentered core

144

(11)

Europe's essential vacuum: Democracy and citizenship as political derivatives

155

(33)

What we talk about when we talk about democracy

155

(5)

Europe and democracy: Please mind the gap(s)!

160

(7)

The commodification of democracy

167

(4)

Legitimacy and the calculus of con(s/t)ent

171

(4)

Citizenship and the embrace of democratic complexity

175

(13)

Europe and/as the Other: Alterity, enmity and cultural hybridness

188

(35)

Europe, alterity and fear

188

(5)

Europe's narrative identity and the resident Other

193

(3)

Security, Kosovo and the balkanization/integration nexus

196

(5)

America as Europe's postmodern coming

201

(4)

Russia and the terror of anarchy

205

(4)

Islam as Europe's post-Cold-War Other

209

(5)

Implications/premonitions (or, Why all these things matter)

214

(9)

Bibliography

223

(27)

Index

250

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European Integration and the Postmodern Condition: Governance, Democracy, Identity

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