The East And The Idea Of Europe
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Author |
: Craig Parsons |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2018-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501732089 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501732080 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Certain Idea of Europe by : Craig Parsons
The quasi-federal European Union stands out as the major exception in the thinly institutionalized world of international politics. Something has led Europeans—and only Europeans—beyond the nation-state to a fundamentally new political architecture. Craig Parsons argues in A Certain Idea of Europe that this "something" was a particular set of ideas generated in Western Europe after the Second World War. In Parsons's view, today's European Union reflects the ideological (and perhaps visionary) project of an elite minority. His book traces the progressive victory of this project in France, where the battle over European institutions erupted most divisively. Drawing on archival research and extensive interviews with French policymakers, the author carefully traces a fifty-year conflict between radically different European plans. Only through aggressive leadership did the advocates of a supranational "community" Europe succeed at building the EU and binding their opponents within it. Parsons puts the causal impact of ideas, and their binding effects through institutions, at the center of his book. In so doing he presents a strong logic of "social construction"—a sharp departure from other accounts of EU history that downplay the role of ideas and ideology.
Author |
: Larry Wolff |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 444 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804727023 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804727020 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inventing Eastern Europe by : Larry Wolff
Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.
Author |
: Roberto M. Dainotto |
Publisher |
: Duke University Press |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2007-01-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780822389620 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0822389622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Europe (in Theory) by : Roberto M. Dainotto
Europe (in Theory) is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that continue to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insights from subaltern and postcolonial studies, Roberto M. Dainotto deconstructs imperialism not from the so-called periphery but from within Europe itself. He proposes a genealogy of Eurocentrism that accounts for the way modern theories of Europe have marginalized the continent’s own southern region, portraying countries including Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal as irrational, corrupt, and clan-based in comparison to the rational, civic-minded nations of northern Europe. Dainotto argues that beginning with Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws (1748), Europe not only defined itself against an “Oriental” other but also against elements within its own borders: its South. He locates the roots of Eurocentrism in this disavowal; internalizing the other made it possible to understand and explain Europe without reference to anything beyond its boundaries. Dainotto synthesizes a vast array of literary, philosophical, and historical works by authors from different parts of Europe. He scrutinizes theories that came to dominate thinking about the continent, including Montesquieu’s invention of Europe’s north-south divide, Hegel’s “two Europes,” and Madame de Staël’s idea of opposing European literatures: a modern one from the North, and a pre-modern one from the South. At the same time, Dainotto brings to light counter-narratives written from Europe’s margins, such as the Spanish Jesuit Juan Andrés’s suggestion that the origins of modern European culture were eastern rather than northern and the Italian Orientalist Michele Amari’s assertion that the South was the cradle of a social democracy brought to Europe via Islam.
Author |
: Anthony Pagden |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2002-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521795524 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521795524 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Idea of Europe by : Anthony Pagden
Discusses how a distinctive 'European' identity has grown over the centuries, especially with the EU.
Author |
: Pekka Korhonen |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 2010-09-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781443825313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 144382531X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The East and the Idea of Europe by : Pekka Korhonen
In this volume, the authors examine the mutual relationship of the East and Europe within the Eurasian geopolitical space. They investigate how people to the East of Europe understand themselves vis-à-vis Europe, how they have processed European influences, and how states in the East compete with the West. The East is a strong rhetorical metaphor efficiently colouring something as non-European, or not-essentially-European. Studies in this volume examine the linguistic techniques that are used in erecting social and political boundaries, and how they are eventually demolished. The main focus is on turning points of time and transitional periods where the stability of status quo and maintenance of traditional values have been questioned, both in history and at present. All analysis is strictly based on original language sources, which are interpreted with thorough social, cultural and historical expertise. The main conceptual tool used for analysis is the binarity of boundaries. Binarity, or the use of boundary creating dichotomies, is constantly used in public discussion and political strategies to structure geopolitical space, create imperial power plays, and competing centre-periphery formations. The empirically strong social and cultural expertise of the authors, and their multidisciplinary use of geopolitical theory in conjunction with new linguistically inspired analytical tools create a highly original perspective on the Eurasian political space. The book is a significant contribution to studies on Europe and its neighbourhood.
Author |
: Mark Hewitson |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 361 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780857457271 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0857457276 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Europe in Crisis by : Mark Hewitson
The period between 1917 and 1957, starting with the birth of the USSR and the American intervention in the First World War and ending with the Treaty of Rome, is of the utmost importance for contextualizing and understanding the intellectual origins of the European Community. During this time of 'crisis,' many contemporaries, especially intellectuals, felt they faced a momentous decision which could bring about a radically different future. The understanding of what Europe was and what it should be was questioned in a profound way, forcing Europeans to react. The idea of a specifically European unity finally became, at least for some, a feasible project, not only to avoid another war but to avoid the destruction of the idea of European unity. This volume reassesses the relationship between ideas of Europe and the European project and reconsiders the impact of long and short-term political transformations on assumptions about the continent's scope, nature, role and significance.
Author |
: Andrew C. Janos |
Publisher |
: Stanford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 516 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0804746885 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780804746885 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis East Central Europe in the Modern World by : Andrew C. Janos
A study of East Central Europe and its place in the modern world. Combining narrative with analysis, it presents the past and present of East Central Europe in the larger context of the political and economic history of the continent.
Author |
: Vickie B. Sullivan |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2017-09-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226482910 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022648291X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Montesquieu and the Despotic Ideas of Europe by : Vickie B. Sullivan
Montesquieu is famous as a tireless critic of despotism, which he associates overtly with Asia and the Middle East and not with the apparently more moderate Western models of governance found throughout Europe. However, Vickie B. Sullivan argues that a creaful reading of Montesquieu's enormously influential The Spirit of the Law reveals the surprising result that he recognizes that Europe itself is susceptible to despotic practices - and that the threat emanates not from the East but rather from certain despotic ideas that inform Western institutions and practices. Sullivan guides readers through Montesquieu's sometimes veiled yet sharply critical accounts of Machiavelli, Hobbes, Aristotle, and Plato, as well as various Christian thinkers have brough forth despotic ideas in the form, for example, of brutal Machiavellianism, of Hobbes's justifications for the rule of one, of Plato's reasoning that denied slaves the right of natural defense, and of the Christian teachings that equated heresy with treason. Such ideas, Montesquieu shows, inform such revered European institutions as the French monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church. In this new reading of Montesquieu's masterwork, Sullivan corrects the misconception that it offers simple, objective observations, showing it to be instead a powerful critique of European politics that would become remarkably and regrettably prescient after Montesquieu's death, when despotism repeatedly emerged in Europe with virulent intensity. -- from dust jacket.
Author |
: Denys Hay |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh : Edinburgh U.P |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 1968 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015048863875 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Europe: the Emergence of an Idea by : Denys Hay
Author |
: Anne Applebaum |
Publisher |
: Anchor |
Total Pages |
: 349 |
Release |
: 2017-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780525433194 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0525433198 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between East and West by : Anne Applebaum
In 1991, Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag, Iron Curtain and Red Famine, took a three-month road trip through the borderlands between the fallen Soviet Union and Europe—lands that became Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova. In her iconic reportage, which has become indispensable history, she captures the harrowing story of a region that is once again threatened by Russia. An extraordinary journey into the past and present of the lands east of Poland and west of Russia—an area defined throughout its history by colliding empires. Traveling from the former Soviet naval center of Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Black Sea port of Odessa, Anne Applebaum encounters a rich range of competing cultures, religions, and national aspirations. In reasserting their heritage, the inhabitants of the borderlands attempt to build a future grounded in their fractured ancestral legacies. In the process, neighbors unearth old conflicts, devote themselves to recovering lost culture, and piece together competing legends to create a new tradition. Rich in surprising encounters and vivid characters, Between East and West brilliantly illuminates the soul of the borderlands and the shaping power of the past.