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This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding
Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to
provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and
its historical development. This fully updated edition adds
material on recent developments, such as Brexit and the migrant and
Eurozone crises. The concept of Europe is instilled with a plethora
of social, cultural, economic, and political meanings. Throughout
history, and still today, scholars writing on Europe, and
politicians involved in national or European politics, often
disagree on the geographic limits of this space and the defining
elements of Europe. Europe is, therefore, first and foremost a
concept that takes different shapes and meanings depending on the
realm of life on which it is applied and on the historical period
under investigation. At a given point in time, depending on the
perspective we adopt and the situation in which we find ourselves,
Europe may represent very different things. Thus, we should better
talk about 'Europes' in plural. What is Europe? explores these
evolving conceptions of Europe from antiquity to the present. This
book is all the more timely as Europe responds to the Russian
invasion of Ukraine and Britain's departure from the European
Union, financial slump, refugee emergencies, and the COVID-19
pandemic. This book offers a fully updated introduction to European
studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is a crucial
companion to any undergraduate or graduate course on Europe and the
European Union. The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
This authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding
Europe today moves beyond accounts of European integration to
provide a wide-ranging and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and
its historical development. This fully updated edition adds
material on recent developments, such as Brexit and the migrant and
Eurozone crises. The concept of Europe is instilled with a plethora
of social, cultural, economic, and political meanings. Throughout
history, and still today, scholars writing on Europe, and
politicians involved in national or European politics, often
disagree on the geographic limits of this space and the defining
elements of Europe. Europe is, therefore, first and foremost a
concept that takes different shapes and meanings depending on the
realm of life on which it is applied and on the historical period
under investigation. At a given point in time, depending on the
perspective we adopt and the situation in which we find ourselves,
Europe may represent very different things. Thus, we should better
talk about 'Europes' in plural. What is Europe? explores these
evolving conceptions of Europe from antiquity to the present. This
book is all the more timely as Europe responds to the Russian
invasion of Ukraine and Britain's departure from the European
Union, financial slump, refugee emergencies, and the COVID-19
pandemic. This book offers a fully updated introduction to European
studies from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is a crucial
companion to any undergraduate or graduate course on Europe and the
European Union. The Open Access version of this book, available at
www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Fully updated and containing chapters on the new EU member states
and the attempt to form a common EU migration policy, this new
edition of European Immigration: A Sourcebook provides a
comprehensive overview of the trends and developments in migration
in all EU countries. With chapters following a common structure to
facilitate direct international comparisons, it not only examines
the internal affairs of each member state, but also explores both
migratory trends within the EU itself and the implications for
European immigration of wider global events, including the Arab
Spring and the world financial crisis.
Fully updated and containing chapters on the new EU member states
and the attempt to form a common EU migration policy, this new
edition of European Immigration: A Sourcebook provides a
comprehensive overview of the trends and developments in migration
in all EU countries. With chapters following a common structure to
facilitate direct international comparisons, it not only examines
the internal affairs of each member state, but also explores both
migratory trends within the EU itself and the implications for
European immigration of wider global events, including the Arab
Spring and the world financial crisis.
This international collection studies how the financial crisis of
2007 and the ensuing economic and political crises in Europe and
North America have triggered a process of change in the field of
economics, law and politics. Contributors to this book argue that
both elites and citizens have had to rethink the nature of the
market, the role of the state as a market regulator and as a
provider of welfare, the role of political parties in representing
society's main political and social cleavages, the role of civil
society in voicing the concerns of citizens, and the role of the
citizen as the ultimate source of power in a democracy but also as
a fundamentally powerless subject in a global economy. The book
studies the actors, the areas and the processes that have carried
forward the change and proposes the notion of 'incomplete paradigm
shift' to analyse this change. Its authors explore the multiple
dimensions of paradigm shifts and their differentiated evolution,
arguing that today we witness an incomplete paradigm shift of
financial regulations, economic models and welfare systems, but a
stillbirth of a new political and economic paradigm.
Europe is imbued with a multitude of social, cultural, economic and
political meanings. The authors of this comprehensive text present
an authoritative yet accessible introduction to understanding
Europe today, moving beyond accounts of European integration to
provide a holistic and nuanced study of contemporary Europe and its
historical development. This book explores evolving definitions of
Europe from antiquity, to the Cold War, right through to Europe in
the midst of the Eurozone and global financial crises. By examining
the different roles and meanings that Europe has held inside and
outside of the continent, including the European Union's 'branding'
of Europe, the text grounds its analysis in an understanding of
Europes plural. Chapters explore concepts of Europe as
civilization, Europe as progress, Europe as unity and Europe as
diversity. How do Europeans think of themselves and their
respective national identities in a multicultural and multi-ethnic
age? How has modernity and the pre- and post-industrial values of
Europe affected the Europe of now and what are the political
legacies of Europe? To what extent are notions of social solidarity
shared across the continent? This is the first text to
systematically answer these questions, and others, in order to
better determine 'what is Europe?'
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