1st Edition

European Citizenship Practice Building Institutions Of A Non-state

By Antje Wiener Copyright 1998
356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

360 Pages
by Routledge

Although great efforts have been made to understand citizenship, it has remained a contested concept, largely because of the problem of the changing relationship between citizens and their community of membership or belonging. The European Union poses the most recent and dramatic change to this definition of citizenship. Arguing that citizenship must be explored from a perspective that takes this... Read more
Theory and Methodology -- Citizenship in a Non-State -- Contextualized Citizenship -- A Socio-Historical Institutionalist Approach -- Paris -- Agenda-Setting Towards Political Union -- Special Rights -- Passport Union -- Fontainebleau -- Market Making and Union Building in the 1980s -- Special Rights Policy -- Passport Policy -- Maastricht -- A Space Without Frontiers 1 ? - Border Politics -- Dusting Off the Citizenship Acquis -- Fragmented Citizenship Practice Post-Maastricht -- Appendix

Biography

Antje Wiener