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What would it mean for the EU to be a legitimate body, and where
do our ideas on this question come from? In this award winning
book, Claudia Schrag Sternberg explores some of the most
significant questions surrounding the legitimacy of the European
Union. Specifically, The Struggle for EU Legitimacy traces the
history of constructions and contestations of the EU's legitimacy,
in discourses of the European institutions and in public debate.
Through an interpretive, non-quantitative textual analysis of an
eclectic range of sources, it examines both long-term patterns in
EU-official discourses and their reception in member-state public
spheres, specifically in the German and French debates on the
Maastricht and Constitutional Draft Treaties. The story told
portrays the history of legitimating the EU as a never-ending
contest over the ends and goals of integration, as well as a
balancing act - which was inescapable given the nature of the
integration project - between 'bringing the people in' and 'keeping
them out', and between actively politicising and deliberately
de-politicising the stakes of EU politics. Schrag Sternberg
suggests that continuous contestation is not only a defining
feature of this history, but a source of legitimacy in its own
right.
This book focuses on one of the most highly charged relationships of the Euro crisis, that between Greece and Germany, from 2009 to 2015. It explores the many ways in which Greeks and Germans represented and often insulted one another in the media, how their self-understanding shifted in the process, and how this in turn affected their respective appraisal of the EU and that which divides us or keeps us together as Europeans. These stories illustrate the book's broader argument about mutual recognition, an idea and norm at the very heart of the European project. The book is constructed around a normative pivot. On one hand, the authors suggest that the tumultuous affair between the two peoples can be read as "mutual recognition lost" through a thousand cuts. On the other, they argue that the relationship has only bent rather than broken down, opening the potential for a renewed promise of mutual recognition and an ethos of "fair play" that may even re-source the EU as a whole. The book's engaging story and original argument may appeal not only to experts of European politics and democracy, but also to interested or emotionally invested citizens, of whatever nationality.
This award-winning book answers some of the big questions on the legitimacy of the European Union. Specifically, it looks at what it would mean for the EU to be considered a legitimate body and where our ideas on this question come from. The Struggle for EU Legitimacy traces the history of constructions and contestations of the EU's legitimacy, in discourses of the European institutions and in public debate. Through an interpretive, non-quantitative textual analysis of an eclectic range of sources, it examines both long-term patterns in EU-official discourses and their reception in member-state public spheres, specifically in the German and French debates on the Maastricht and Constitutional Draft Treaties. The story told portrays the history of legitimating the EU as a continuous contest over the ends and goals of integration, as well as a balancing act-which was inescapable given the nature of the integration project-between 'bringing the people in' and 'keeping them out'. In addition, it was a balancing act between actively politicizing and deliberately de-politicizing the stakes of EU politics.
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