1st Edition
Europe Anti-Power Ressentiment and Exceptionalism in EU Debate
- EU Power and its Adjectives
- Power/Play
- The Viral Trace
- Innovation
- Power/Play’s Transformation Into Form
- In Knowing Anticipation
- The Sound of Power
- EU Exceptionalism, EU Resentment
- The Tinkerer, Destroyer of Worlds
- Europe Anti-Power
Biography
Michael Loriaux is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, USA. His teaching and research areas are International Relations, the European Union and Critical Theory. He is the author of European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier (2008).
'The project of European integration has often been portrayed as an attempt to escape from the destructive power politics that haunted the European continent for so long, both in relations among European states as well as in Europe’s external relations. Michael Loriaux’s superb Europe Anti-Power reconfigures the debate on Europe and power. His highly original readings of the works of Machiavelli, Agamben, Thucydides and others on the meaning of power underpin his bold claim: the European Union should (re)constitute itself as "anti-power." This book is a must read not only for everyone with an interest in European politics, but also for scholars and students concerned with power in IR and Political Science.' - Stefan Borg, Swedish Institute for International Affairs and Stockholm University, Sweden
'Are we duped by the necessity of power? Lauriaux's deconstruction of conventional readings of EU power and his plea for a conception of Europe as anti-power are a provocative and overdue challenge to the debate about the EU's role in global politics.' - Thomas Diez, University of Tuebingen, Germany
