Author : Ron Böhler
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668538824
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (685 download)
Book Synopsis European identity and Europeanisation. Focus on an underestimated topic by : Ron Böhler
Download or read book European identity and Europeanisation. Focus on an underestimated topic written by Ron Böhler and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Politics - Topic: European Union, grade: 1.7, University of Bath, language: English, abstract: This study examines the concept of a general European identity. First, the underlying concept of ‘identity’ in the European socio-political context will be defined and elaborated in its different levels and peculiarities. Second, the study addresses the various theories of Europeanisation as they mirror the current state of the scientific debate. The essay concludes by extracting the additive of the concept of ‘identity’ for Europeanisation theories. The European Union (EU) faces a dilemma: While life and politics of the European citizens become more and more Europeanised, the emergence of a European identity seems to fail. People all over Europe cannot identify with the idea of European unification as a whole, although this might spread peace, freedom and welfare. On the other hand, if the EU or its citizens themselves would be able to create European ‘imagined community’, by whatever means, the split between both concepts would be overcome. But how is the concept of ‘identity’ then connected to Europeanisation processes? The main argument here is that ‘identity’ still is an underestimated object of Europeanisation theories, but that the rise of hybrid identities, and with it the manifestation of Europeanised national identities instead of a European identity all over Europe, holds the explicit potency to establish the missing relationship between European citizens and EU politics. This would lead suddenly to a strengthened legitimization of European Union policies as well as people ́s belief in the justification of a supranational polity within a system of multi-level governance.