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Anti-Europeanism, Populism and European Integration in a Historical Perspective
This book explores the long-term origins of populist Euroscepticism.
Taking a historical perspective to move beyond explaining present-day expressions of opposition to the European Union in isolation, this book reveals the historical sedimentation of the several ways and forms taken over decades by opposition towards European integration. As such, this approach – with contributions from across disciplines - explains not just the past of Euroscepticism, but also its current nature and future prospects.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European History, European Politics and Studies and more broadly to Political Science, International Relations, the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Introduction. Contesting Europe: the origins of populist anti-Europeanism
Andrea Guiso and Daniele Pasquinucci
Part 1 Historicising populist Euroscepticism
1. Distinct but converging: historicising populist Euroscepticism
Daniele Pasquinucci
2. European integration and democratic legitimacy: a historical assessment of the institutional and economic roots of populist Euroscepticism
Andrea Guiso
3. Euroscepticism from a historical viewpoint: the need for further definition and a brief periodisation
Antonio Varsori
Part 2 The historical roots of Brexit
4. British nationalism and Brexit
Mark Gilbert
5. Euroscepticism and Populism: the UK Labour Party since 1945
William King
6. Brexit and Margaret Thatcher’s Eurosceptic legacy
Domenico Maria Bruni and Laura Chiara Cecchi
Part 3 France and Germany: the old couple in the face of populist Euroscepticism
7. The French Communist Party facing the European Defense Community (1950-1954): between propaganda, ideology and populism
Martial Libera
8. From “Front” to “Rassemblement National”: radical right populist Euroscepticism in France
Nicola Genga
9. Something new on the German Front: the Alternative für Deutschland and Europe
Federico Niglia
Part 4 National varieties of populist Euroscepticism
10. The construction of a Dutch Eurosceptic tradition by contemporary populist political parties
Robin de Bruin
11. Euroscepticism and Vox: is it the end of Spanish exceptionalism?
Maria Elena Cavallaro and Giorgia Priorelli
12. “Against the hegemony of Brussels”: the anti-Europeanism of right-wing political parties in Poland
Joanna Sondel-Cedarmas
13. Following the benefits. Utilitarian attitudes towards the European Union: evidence from three Central and Eastern European countries
Marco Morini and Peter Plenta
Part 5 Italy and Europe: from consensus to disenchantment
14. Between old-style nationalism and political realism: Italy’s diplomatic resistance to the process of European integration between 1945 and 1957
Gerardo Nicolosi
15. Is the lira to blame? The European monetary “Snake” and the emergence of Italian anti-Europeanism
Lucrezia Ranieri
16. Populism and Euroscepticism in Italy: outlining the historical roots of a long-standing interplay
Giovanni de Ghantuz Cubbe
17. Populism, populists, European democracies and European Union: the Italian case
Marc Lazar
Biography
Andrea Guiso is a Full Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Communication and Social Research, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Daniele Pasquinucci is a Full Professor of History of International Relations and Jean Monnet Chair in History of European integration at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Siena, Italy.
