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Europe, Discourse, and Institutions: Challenging the Mainstream in European Studies book cover

1st Edition

Europe, Discourse, and Institutions Challenging the Mainstream in European Studies

Edited By Cristian Nitoiu, Nikola Tomic Copyright 2015
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge
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This book focuses on how discourse and various narratives contribute to the construction of the European Union as a political actor, thus seeking to challenge the more established approaches to the study of the Union. It sheds light on the way discourses about the European Union are created, perpetuated and then translated into policy outcomes. Most of the contributions attempt to account for the... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Making the Mythical European: Elucidating the EU’s Powerful Integration Instrument of Discursive Identity Construction  3. The Battle Against Unfair Trade in the EU Trade Policy: A Discourse Analysis of Trade Protection  4. ‘Bursting the Brussels Bubble’: Using Ethnography to Explore the European Parliament as a Transnational Political Field  5. Coordinative Discourses in Brussels: An Agency-oriented Model of EU Foreign Policy Analysis  6. The Narrative Construction of the European Union in External Relations  7. The EU and Russia: Competing Discourses, Practices and Interests in the Shared Neighbourhood

Biography

Cristian Nitoiu is Post-doctoral Research Fellow within the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the College of Europe, Natolin Campus.

Nikola Tomic has recently completed his PhD within the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University, UK.

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