Ceretta / Curli Discourses and Counter-discourses on Europe

From the Enlightenment to the EU
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-26513-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten

Reihe: Critical European Studies

The European Union plays an increasingly central role in global relations from migration to trade to institutional financial solvency. The formation and continuation of these relations – their narratives and discourses - are rooted in social, political, and economic historical relations emerging at the founding of European states and then substantially augmented in the Post-WWII era. Any rethinking of our European narratives requires a contextualized analysis of the formation of hegemonic discourses.

The book contributes to the ongoing process of "rethinking" the European project, identity, and institutions, brought about by the end of the Cold war and the current economic and political crisis. Starting from the principle that the present European crisis goes hand in hand with the crisis of its hegemonic discourse, the aim of the volume is to rescue the complexity, the richness, the ambiguity of the discourses on Europe as opposed to the present simplification. The multidisciplinary approach and the long-term perspective permits illuminating scope over multiple discourses, historical periods, and different "languages", including that of the European institutions.

This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, European integration, European History, and more broadly international relations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ceretta, Manuela

Curli, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Rescuing Europe from its Rhetoric

Manuela Ceretta and Barbara Curli

Part I: Thinking and Regretting Europe

1. Thinking Europe in the Age of Enlightenment. Philosophes and Antiphilosophes between Universalism and Fragmentation

Patrizia Delpiano

2. Evoking Europe against the French Revolution: the Rhetorical Tools of Counter-revolutionary Thinkers

Manuela Ceretta

3. Discourses on Europe and their Political Value in Restoration France

Giuseppe Sciara

Part II: The Burden of Integration: inside the European Institutions

4. A European Framework for Military Institutions? International Integration and European Perspectives in Military Rhetorics after the Second World War

Marco Di Giovanni

5. Nuclear Europe: Technoscientific Modernity and European Integration in Euratom’s Early Discourse

Barbara Curli

6. Parliamentary Groups and Political Traditions in the Debates on EU Institutional Reform (1979-1999)

Paolo Caraffini, Filippo Maria Giordano

7. The political groups of the European Parliament in the face of Yugoslavia disintegration and the Discursive Framing of EU Foreign Policy (1991-1995)

Giovanni Finizio, Umberto Morelli

8. The Alter-globalist Counter-discourse in European Rhetoric and Translation. Women’s Rights at the European Parliament

Maria Cristina Caimotto, Rachele Raus

Part III: Communicating Europe

9. Europe in the Media Space: The construction of the EU public sphere in Italy

Marinella Belluati, Cristopher Cepernich

10. ISIS’ Dabiq Communicative Strategies, NATO and Europe. Who is Learning from Whom?

Michelangelo Conoscenti

11. Changing Perceptions of the European Union in the MENA region before and after the Arab uprisings: the case of Tunisia

Rosita Di Peri, Federica Zardo

Über Autor(innen)

Manuela Ceretta is Professor of History of Political Thought at the University of Turin, Italy. She is a member of the Scientific Board of Studi Irlandesi, A Journal of Irish Studies and of the Editorial Board of Storia del Pensiero politico.

Barbara Curli is Professor of Contemporary History and Global History at the University of Turin, Italy. She was Jean Monnet Chair in History of European Integration at the University of Calabria, Italy, and Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Italian History at Georgetown University, USA; and Editor-in-chief (2011-2015) of Il Mesteire di storico.