1st Edition

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

Edited By Furio Cerutti, Sonia Lucarelli Copyright 2008
256 Pages
by Routledge

246 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the link between political identity and legitimacy in the European Union. Stimulated by the crisis of legitimacy and identity suffered by the EU after the referenda on the Constitutional Treaty, the editors have developed a theoretical framework to examine the interplay between these two items in the problematic development of the EU into a fully-fledged political actor. The... Read more

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 Europe  8. 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

Biography

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.