European Union - The Second Founding

Prof. Dr. Ludger Kühnhardt

doi:10.5771/9783845225043

Summary

Prof. Dr. Ludger Kühnhardt, Director at the renowned Center for European Integration Studies (ZEI) at the University of Bonn is presenting a broadly structured study about the first fifty years of European integration, its geopolitical context and academic reflection. His study is based on the two-fold thesis that since a few years, the European Union is going through a process of its Second Founding while simultaneously changing its rationale. The original founding of European integration in 1957 was based on the notion of internal reconciliation among European states and societies. Since the 1990s European integration has become, increasingly, a political project with implications for the internal structure of its member states and their societies. At the same time, with the end of the Cold War, the rational of European integration has begun to change: European integration is about a new global role of Europe, its contribution to the management of global affairs and its ability to cope with the effects of globalization on Europe. Inside the EU, the Second Founding is about a new contract between political elites and the people of Europe in order to solidify legitimacy and effectiveness for this unique experiment in European history.

The revised second edition of this book takes into account the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon that has come into effect on December 1, 2009, as well as the debate over European economic governance in light of the Greek state deficit.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8329-5505-2
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8452-2504-3
Publisher: Nomos, Baden-Baden
Series: Schriften des Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI)
Volume: 67
Language: English
Pages: 675
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis Partial access Pages 1 - 8 Download chapter (PDF)
Introduction No access Pages 9 - 24
1. I. From National Identities to European Constitutionalism No access
2. II. Europe’s Constitution No access
1. III. 1957 – 1979: Institutions Consolidated No access
2. IV. 1979 – 1993: Economies Integrated No access
3. V. 1993 – 2009: Politics Europeanized No access
1. VI. Transatlantic Relations: The Bonds that Hold No access
2. VII. Globalization and the Changing Rationale for European Integration No access
3. VIII. The Global Proliferation of Region-Building No access
1. IX Searching in Vain: Why European Integration did not Work Earlier No access
2. X. “For the Sake of Europe”: Prevailing Normative Disputes No access
3. XI. Academic Evaluation: Theorizing European Integration No access
1. XII. Toward European Patriotism? No access
2. XIII. Defining Europe’s Global Interests No access
Conclusion No access Pages 575 - 586
Bibliography No access Pages 587 - 652
Index No access Pages 653 - 674
The Author No access Pages 675 - 675