ABSTRACT

This is the first book to look at the process of European integration by drawing on both established and new trends in postmodern thinking and analysis. The book asks how we can study the process of European integration in the current climate, and maps out the central elements of the academic debate dealing with the future of integration, and 'Europe' in general.
The author stimulates fresh readings of the European issue, encouraging the development of new analytical horizons. This is a significant cutting-edge contribution to debates in politics, comparative politics and European studies.

chapter |30 pages

2 Globalization and Europeanization

Parallel processes (parallel puzzles)?

chapter |33 pages

3 European identity beyond the state

Reading the EU

chapter |33 pages

6 Europe's essential vacuum

Democracy and citizenship as political derivatives

chapter |35 pages

7 Europe and/as the Other

Alterity, enmity and cultural hybridness