The Idea of Europe: From Antiquity to the European Union (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 5
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
GOVERNMENT......Page 17
THE LEGACY OF EMPIRE......Page 24
WAR AND COMMERCE......Page 27
A MODERN EUROPEAN IDENTITY......Page 34
AGENCIES OF IDENTITY......Page 38
1 Europe: Conceptualizing a Continent......Page 47
2 Some Europes in Their History......Page 69
THE GEOGRAPHICAL CONCEPT OF "EUROPE”......Page 70
THE ENLIGHTENED NARRATIVE......Page 76
ANOTHER "EUROPE” IN HISTORY......Page 81
CONCLUSION......Page 84
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE......Page 85
3 “Europe” in the Middle Ages......Page 86
EUROPE......Page 88
POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS......Page 90
THE ECONOMY......Page 92
THE ECCLESIASTICAL WORLD......Page 95
CONCLUSION......Page 103
4 The Republican Mirror: The Dutch Idea of Europe......Page 105
THE RISE OF DUTCH REPUBLICANISM......Page 109
THE FAILURES OF HUMANIST, ARISTOCRATIC REPUBLICANISM, 1609–29......Page 113
THE MORAL CONTAINMENT OF REASON OF STATE......Page 118
THE CULMINATION OF THE REPUBLICAN DEBATE......Page 124
EUROPEAN REPUBLICANISM AND THE REPUBLICAN IDEA OF EUROPE......Page 126
5 The Napoleonic Empire and the Europe of Nations......Page 130
THE ENLIGHTENMENT VIEW......Page 131
REVOLUTION AND CONQUEST......Page 133
THE OPPOSITION TO NAPOLEON......Page 138
FROM PARIS TO VIENNA......Page 140
6 Homo Politicus and Homo Oeconomicus: The European Citizen According to Max Weber......Page 143
OCCIDENT VERSUS ORIENT......Page 145
MIDDLE AGES VERSUS ANTIQUITY......Page 146
CONCLUSION......Page 151
7 The European Self: Rethinking an Attitude......Page 153
THE MENTALITY TRAP......Page 156
A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS......Page 159
CONTESTING THE CLAIMS OF RATIONALISM......Page 162
THE EVERYDAY USE OF “NATIONAL CHARACTER”......Page 164
THE GREEK ATOMIST INDIVIDUALIST: A PARADIGMATIC CASE......Page 171
PREDICAMENTS OF THE PICTURESQUE: VARIEGATIONS OF A EUROPEAN SELFHOOD......Page 178
FROM ARTISANAL MODELS TO MODEL SELVES: TOWARD THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA......Page 183
8 European Nationalism and European Union......Page 185
FROM EUROPEAN COSMOPOLITANISM TO ANTINATIONAL EUROPEAN NATIONALISM......Page 187
FROM EUROPEAN COSMOPOLITANISM TO PRO-NATIONAL EUROPEAN NATIONALISM......Page 194
THE PREDICAMENT OF EUROPEAN NATIONALISM TODAY......Page 200
9 From the Ironies of Identity to the Identities of Irony......Page 205
THE IDEA OF EUROPE AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY......Page 207
EUROPE AND ITS OTHERS......Page 214
BEING EUROPEAN......Page 218
10 Muslims and European Identity: Can Europe Represent Islam?......Page 223
MUSLIMS AND THE IDEA OF EUROPE......Page 225
ISLAM AND THE NARRATIVE OF EUROPE......Page 228
THE SHIFTING BORDERS OF MODERN EUROPE......Page 232
EUROPEAN LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND MINORITY REPRESENTATION......Page 234
11 The Long Road to Unity: The Contribution of Law to the Process of European Integration since 1945......Page 242
FROM THE TREATY OF PARIS TO THE TREATY OF AMSTERDAM: THE UNIFICATION OF EUROPE THROUGH THE EC TREATIES......Page 243
The First Phase, 1945–1955......Page 246
The Second Phase, 1955–1968......Page 249
The Third Phase, 1965–1987......Page 251
The Fourth Phase: The Single European Act of 1987......Page 256
The Fifth Phase: The Maastricht Treaty on European Union of 1992 and the Treaty of Amsterdam of 1997......Page 259
THE DYNAMIC ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS......Page 264
The Doctrine of Exclusive Community Competence......Page 267
Private Enforcement of the Treaties against Member States......Page 270
12 The Euro, Economic Federalism, and the Question of National Sovereignty......Page 274
WHY THE EMU?......Page 275
THE EMU AND THE RENUNCIATION OF SOVEREIGNTY......Page 278
THE EMU AND THE THEORY OF IMPULSE IMBALANCE......Page 280
THE STRATEGY OF COMPETITIVE DEFLATION INSCRIBED IN THE STONE OF INSTITUTIONS......Page 284
THE EMU: A STRATEGY FOR WINNING MONETARY INFLUENCE......Page 289
THE CENTRAL BANKS AGAINST THE MARKETS......Page 291
EUROPE AFTER THE EURO......Page 295
13 Identity Politics and European Integration: The Case of Germany......Page 301
WHAT IS "NATION-STATE IDENTITY” AND WHAT CAN IT EXPLAIN?......Page 303
Konrad Adenauer’s Vision of Germany in Europe......Page 308
Lack of Consensus among German Elites......Page 311
A Federalist Consensus Emerges......Page 314
German Unification: Continuity Rather than Change......Page 316
GERMAN EUROPEANNESS AND THE SINGLE CURRENCY: BETWEEN THE EURO AND THE DEUTSCHE MARK......Page 320
CONCLUSIONS......Page 328
14 Nationalisms in Spain: The Organization of Convivencia......Page 331
THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL STATE AND THE HORIZON OF THE EUROPEAN UNION......Page 333
PLURALISM IN THE IDEA OF THE NATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO SPAIN......Page 336
CONCLUSION: OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES......Page 341
THE KANTIAN IDEA OF EUROPE AND THE WORLD......Page 345
A CRITICAL ENLIGHTENMENT ATTITUDE TOWARD THE KANTIAN IDEA OF EUROPE......Page 348
RETHINKING CULTURES......Page 354
RETHINKING CONSTITUTIONS AND FEDERATIONS......Page 361
FROM MONOLOGUE TO COSMOPOLITAN MULTILOGUE......Page 367
CONCLUSION......Page 372
Contributors......Page 373
Index......Page 377