1st Edition
Transnational Actors and Stories of European Integration Clash of Narratives
1.Narrating European integration: transnational actors and stories 2.Different narratives, one area without internal frontiers: why EU institutions cannot agree on the refugee crisis 3.The Promethean role of Europe: changing narratives of the political and scholarly left Nikola Petrović 4.Almost the same stories: narrative patterns in EU treaty referendums Wolf J. Schünemann 5.One narrative or several? Politics, cultural elites, and citizens in constructing a ‘New Narrative for Europe’ Wolfram Kaiser 6.Progress, democracy, efficiency: normative narratives in political science EU studies Richard McMahon 7.European Union or Kingdom of the Antichrist? Protestant apocalyptic narratives and European unity Brent F. Nelsen and James L. Guth 8.Post-communist invocation of Europe: memorial museums’ narratives and the Europeanization of memory Ljiljana Radonić
Biography
Wolfram Kaiser is Professor of European Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He has published widely on contemporary European history and politics including Writing the Rules for Europe (with J. Schot) and International Organizations and Environmental Protection (edited with J.H. Meyer).
Richard McMahon is a lecturer in EU politics at University College London. He has written widely on national and European identity, in the context of European integration, including a monograph entitled The Races of Europe: Construction of National Identities in the Social Sciences, 1839–1939.
