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Queen’s University Belfast, 16 May 2013I.P. Karolewski 1 The Trouble with European Identity.
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Transcript of Queen’s University Belfast, 16 May 2013I.P. Karolewski 1 The Trouble with European Identity.
Queen’s University Belfast, 16 May 2013 I.P. Karolewski1
The Trouble with European Identity
2
Structure
① The point of departure
② Major questions
③ How to recognize a European
identity?
④ Proxies and agents of of European
identity
⑤ Technologies of identity-making
⑥ Risks of identity-making
3
The point of departure
Rising Euroscepticism (new anti-Euro parties)
Lacking strong public support for the EU
From „permissive consensus“ to “constraining dissensus” (Hooghe/Marks 2006)
4
How much pressure can the community tolerate in order to persist?
What holds the EU together in times of scarcity and conflict?
European identity as a panacea or a phenomenon of crisis?
Major questions
5
How can we recognize a European identity?
Confusing collective identity with regime support
Belonging to vs. Belonging together
Identity as dependent/independent variable
6
European Public Space community-wide communication
essential to formation of democratic self-government
Reflexive identity based on difference
Union Citizenship Norms affecting citizens, internationalization of
reciprocity/mobility
Citizenship as an agent of identity-making
Proxies and agents of European identity?
7
Technologies of European identity I
Manipulation of symbols
Tangible symbols of the euroAnthem, flag, European cities of culture
Foundational myth-making
Narratives creating normative and cognitive basis for identityPeace, prosperity, democracy
8
Technologies II
Positive self-imagesCivilian power, normative powerCracks in the normative credibility of the EU
Transfer of identityInstitutional identity of the acquis„Others“ as potential members
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Risks of identity-making in the EU
The gulf between the elites and the EU population
Dilemma of simultaneity (Building a ship at an open sea)
How to generate a sense of community with liberal means?