The Shape of the New Europe

Cambridge University Press, 11/23/2006
EAN 9780521601085, ISBN10: 0521601088

Paperback, 214 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The European Union and European identity were until recently the objects of separate branches of scholarship and inquiry. With the entry of Central and Eastern European members into the EU, it has become clear that the future of the European Union can no longer be considered in isolation from the future of European identity. Taking Jürgen Habermas's plea for a European constitution and a normative foundation for the European Union as its starting point, this volume brings together the ideas of distinguished scholars in philosophy, political science, sociology, history, law and theology in order to address the shifting relationship between constitutionality, political culture, history and collective identity. The book argues that the future shape of Europe will not only result from external processes of globalisation but from the interaction between these social spheres within Europe.

1. Europe
law, politics, history, culture Ralf Rogowski and Charles Turner
Part I. Constitutionality and Political Participation
2. Why Europe needs a constitution Jürgen Habermas
3. Why constitutionalise the European Union? Philippe Schmitter
Part II. European Polity and European Civil Society
4. European political modernity Heidrun Friese and Peter Wagner
5. Civil society in Europe William Outhwaite
Part III. European History and European Culture
6. L'Europe des patries, or megalomania breeds ruritanians John A. Hall
7. Europe becoming
the civilisational consequences of enlargement Gerard Delanty
8. Gaea and Europa
religion and legitimation crisis in the New Europe Richard Roberts
9. A postnational council of isles? The British-Irish conflict reconsidered Richard Kearney
Part IV. Europe and the World
10. Unified or open? The European alternative Ralf Dahrendorf.