Hagen Schulz-Forberg, Bo Stråth

The Political History of European Integration

The Hypocrisy of Democracy-Through-Market

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book adopts a historical perspective to explore the tensions between the idea of a European democracy through a European market, and the observations that there are signs of increasing social disintegration, political extremism and populism in the wake of economic integration.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9780415502757
• ISBN-10: 0415502756
• Artikelnr.: 57046819

Autorenporträt

Hagen Schulz-Forberg is Assistant Professor in International History, University of Aarhus, Denmark. Bo Stråth holds a Chair in Nordic, European and World History at the Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. He recently co-edited A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance and European Solidarities: Tensions and Contentions of a Concept.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: A Historical Outline: Confronting Teleological Understandings of
European Integration 1. The Mythical Foundation and the Turbulent Founding
Years 2. The Market and the Social 3. The Constitution and the 'Democratic
Deficit' Part 2: The European Public Sphere in History, Theory and Practice
4. The European Public Sphere in Historical Perspective 5. The European
Public Sphere in Theory 6. The European Public Sphere in Practice Part 3:
European Values and the European Union 7. European Values and History 8.
The Value Production at the Political Centre 9. The Academic Value
Production Part 4: The Contours of a Historical Theory of the EU 10. The
Historical Analogies 11. Towards a Realistic Historical Perspective on the
European Integration 12. The Future