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The Pursuit of Europe - A History (Hardcover)
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The Pursuit of Europe - A History (Hardcover)
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The European Union, we are told, is facing extinction. Most of
those who believe that, however, have no understanding of how, and
why, it became possible to imagine that the diverse peoples of
Europe might be united in a single political community. The Pursuit
of Europe tells the story of the evolution of the 'European
project', from the end of the Napoleonic Wars, which saw the
earliest creation of a 'Concert of Europe', right through to
Brexit. The question was how, after centuries of internecine
conflict, to create a united Europe while still preserving the
political legal and cultural integrity of each individual nation.
The need to find an answer to this question became more acute after
two world wars had shown that if the nations of Europe were to
continue to play a role in the world they could now only do so
together. To achieve that, however, they had to be prepared to
merge their zealously-guarded sovereign powers into a new form of
trans-national constitutionalism. This, the European Union has
tried to do. Here, Anthony Pagden argues that it has created not as
its enemies have claimed, a 'super-state' but a new post-national
order united in a political life based, not upon the old
shibboleths of nationalism and patriotism, but upon a common body
of values and aspirations. It is this, argues Pagden, that will
allow the Union to defeat its political enemies from within, and to
overcome the difficulties, from mass migration to the pandemic,
which it faces from without. But it will only succeed in doing so
if it also continues to evolve as it has over the past two
centuries.
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