Europe's Contending Identities: Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism - Hardcover

9781107036338: Europe's Contending Identities: Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism

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ISBN 10: 110703633X ISBN 13: 9781107036338

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

How "European" are Europeans? Is it possible to balance national citizenship with belonging to the European Union overall? Do feelings of citizenship and belonging respond to affiliations to regions, religions, or reactionary politics? Unlike previous volumes about identity in Europe, this book offers a more comprehensive view of the range of identities and new arguments about the political processes that shape identity formation. The founders of European integration promised "an ever closer union." Nationalists respond that a people should control their own destiny. This book investigates who is winning the debate. The chapters show that attitudes toward broader political communities are changing, that new ideas are gaining ground, and that long-standing trends are possibly reversing course.

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Book Description:

This volume interrogates the implications of the persistence of nationalisms and newer, ethnic-religious identities for the emergence of a robust European identity. The collected essays intersect and are informed by the streams of scholarship on: contemporary ethnonationalism; the challenges associated with immigrant, particularly Muslim immigrant, incorporation; and the so-called new nationalism, including the illiberal ideas and policies promoted by extreme right political parties and groups.

About the Author:

Andrew C. Gould is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Origins of Liberal Dominance: State, Church, and Party in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1999). His articles have been published in West European Politics, The Annual Review of Political Science, Studies in Comparative International Development, and The Review of Politics. Prior to his time at the University of Notre Dame, Professor Gould taught at the University of Washington.

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