1st Edition
Post-identity? Culture and European Integration
Introduction. Part I: Europeans’ Weak Cultural Identity 1. Bringing the Demos Back In: People’s Views on ‘EUropean Identity’ 2. Enlargement in Perspective: The EU’s Quest for Identity Part II: Mistaken Identity: Critical Perspectives on European Culture 3. Not Quite "Sui Generis" Enough: Interrogating European Values 4. Putting Culture in its Place: Anthropological Reflections on the EU Part III: Culture, Ideology and a Politically Viable EU 5. What Kind of Community and How Much Community Does the European Union Require? 6. Cleaning Up After European Identity: The Consequences of a Failed Political Strategy 7. European Identity: Lessons from 20 Years of Social Psychological Inquiry Part IV: Cultural Alternatives to Identity 8. Lessons from the Past? Europe’s Grand Shift from Cultural Homogenization to Multiculturalism 9. Cultural Networks as Vectors of European Integration 10. Horizontal Europeanization and Identification with Europe 11. How Culture and History Shape Europe’s Differentiated Integration: The Cases of Liberal International Relations and Northern Euroscepticism. Conclusion.
Biography
Richard McMahon lectures in history at University College Cork. He holds a PhD from the European University Institute, Florence and was previously a Brussels-based journalist of EU external relations and an ESRC research fellow in politics at the University of Bristol.
