Les États-Unis Et L'Identité Européenne de Sécurité Et de Défense Dans la Nouvelle OTAN
Author: Philip H. Gordon
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9782865920617
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Author: Philip H. Gordon
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9782865920617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aurélie Élisa Gfeller
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012-07-20
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0857452258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Arab-Israeli war of 1973, the first oil price shock, and France's transition from Gaullist to centrist rule in 1974 coincided with the United States' attempt to redefine transatlantic relations. As the author argues, this was an important moment in which the French political elite responded with an unprecedented effort to construct an internationally influential and internally cohesive European entity. Based on extensive multi-archival research, this study combines analysis of French policy making with an inquiry into the evolution of political language, highlighting the significance of the new concept of a political European identity.
Author: Michael Byram
Publisher: Council of Europe
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9789287144195
DOWNLOAD EBOOKL'apprentissage d'une langue étrangère n'est-ce pas la meilleure manière de connaître une autre culture ? La présente étude s'attache à formaliser la transmission des identités européennes dans l'enseignement de ses langues.
Author: Anne Deighton
Publisher: Soleb
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 2952372667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard R. Verdugo
Publisher: IAP
Published: 2016-06-01
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1681235250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNational identity has been the subject of much controversy and debate. Some have even suggested dropping the concept entirely. One group, Essentialists, argue that national identity is fixed, cultural, based on birth and ancestry. Another viewpoint is posited by Postmodernists who argue that national identity is malleable, invented or imagined. As alternatives, some have suggested that national identity is a hybrid of both Essentialist and Postmodernist views. And still others bypass this argument and suggest that national identity should be based on civic factors, such as shared values and norms about citizenship. While controversy and debate are healthy exercises in any science, at some point order must be established if science is to proceed. The present volume is based on the idea that national identity is an ideal-type concept; it does not completely capture reality, but is used for analytic purposes. In addition, rather than focusing on these theoretical debates, we pursue research with the idea that results from research will contribute to the field of national identity. Three areas of national identity are discussed: theoretical, national, and individual. Two chapters focus on the major theories about national identity, provide critiques, and make suggestions about the topic. In section two, six chapters provide case studies of national identity on Scotland, Ireland, Russia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, and France. In section three, two case studies focus on immigrants and the challenges they face in forming their identities, especially identifying with their host countries—Belgium, and the United Kingdom. Several important conclusions may be gleaned from the contributions of the present volume. To begin with, while national identity is a slippery concept, if the field wishes to move beyond debate about fundamentals, it would be well advised to view the concept as an ideal-type as suggested by the great German scholar, Max Weber. Secondly, the case studies included in the present volume indicate that national identity is not only based on ethnicity and culture, but on such external factors as governance regimes and their changes, economic crises, wars and other forms of aggressive activity, and social demographic changes in a population. These factors affect a population at the national level. For immigrants at the individual level, developing national identity is greatly affected by four interrelated factors: 1) the degree to which they are accepted by members of the host society; 2) immigrants’ language skills and physical appearances; 3) how well they are able to balance their host national identity, their ethnic identity, and acceptance of their native country; 4) and their generational status. Generally, at the national and individual levels, context and circumstances matter in developing national identity.
Author: John Erik Fossum
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9789052014753
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern states - and novel multinational polities such as the European Union - have to contend with greater degrees, and more complex forms, of diversity. What elements keep complex, «post-national», political entities together? What are the ties that bind people together in a world where they cannot rely on the safety of established national identifications (if they ever could)? This collection of essays by leading political scientists, philosophers and legal academics from Canada and Europe provides a transatlantic dialogue on the ways in which complex states (such as Canada) and non-states (the EU) may broach the modes of difference and diversity that confront them. Authors engage in insightful «diagnoses» of contemporary forms and modes of diversity, as well as critical appraisals of a number of normative responses meant to answer these challenges. These responses range from «reasonable accommodation» and multinationalism to cosmopolitanism. They include the recognition of «post-national», «multinational» or «deterritorialised» democracy and constitutional patriotism, as well as plural or «denationalised» citizenship.
Author: Patricia A. Stapleton
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 69
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Nentwich
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1134690177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contributors to this book examine the issues of constitutional choice that face the governments and citizens of today's Europe. Divided into three sections this study addresses: questions of political legitimacy and the meaning of democratic deficit in the EU; the reality of what institutional reforms and decision making processes are possible; and the rights of citizenship and values that should be protected.
Author: O. Calligaro
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-12-18
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 1137369906
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book explores the promotion of Europeanness, which aims to arouse feelings of belonging to the European Union. It demonstrates that the promotion of Europeanness at the EU level does not constitute an overarching identity policy that imposes a homogenous interpretation of European identity. Rather, it is a process of negotiation in which various entrepreneurs of Europeanness within and outside the EU institutions invent and communicate representations of Europe. Both the negotiation and the multilayered representations of Europe that it produces are investigated through three case studies: the academia and the historians, European heritage, and the iconography of the euro.