Dame Glynis M. Breakwell is a social psychologist whose work has focussed upon identity (unique and shared), responses to risk and threat (especially in public crises), and the personal and social significance of mistrust and social representation processes. She holds Emeritus Professorships in psychology at the University of Bath and the University of Surrey and is a visiting Professor in the Institute for Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society.Evanthia Lyons

• List of Contributors. New Preface Part One: Towards a Social Psychological Analysis of Social Change in Europe 1. Changing European Identities and Social Change in Europe: A Challenge for Social Psychology Evanthia Lyons and Glynis M. Breakwell 2. Identity Processes and Social Changes Glynis M. Breakwell Part Two: Changing National Identities? 3. Coping with Social Change: Processes of Social Memory in the Reconstruction of Identities Evanthia Lyons 4. Unimagined Community? Some Social Psychological Issues Concerning English National Identity Susan Condor 5. The Construction of Social Categories and Processes of Social Change: Arguing about National Identities Nick Hopkins and Steve Reicher 6. Ascribed Identities and the Social Identity Space: An Ego/Ecological Analysis Marisa Zavalloni 7. Spanish International Orientations: Between Europe and Iberoamerica José R. Torregrosa 8. Dimensions of Social Identity in Northern Ireland Karen Trew and Denny E. Benson 9. Cultural-Political Differences in Perception of Ethnic Concepts in Central-Eastern and Western Europe Viera Bacova and Patricia Ellis 10. Changing Social Identities of the Bulgarians Velina Topalova 11. Nationalism as an International Ideology: Imagining the Nation, Others and the World of Nations Michael Billig 12. Regional Identity Formation and Community Integration in the Lega Lombarda Carlo E. Ruzza 13. A Safe European Home? Global Environmental Change and European National Identities Jonathan Chase 14. Vietnamese Refugees in Finland – Changing Cultural Identity Karmela Liebkind 15. Migrant Identities in Conflict: Acculturation Attitudes and Perceived Acculturation Ideologies Gabriel Horenczyk Part Three: Constructing a European Identity 16. A Social Identity Perspective on European Integration Marco Cinnirella 17. Social Representations of History and Attitudes to European Unification in Britain, France and Germany Denis J. Hilton, Hans-Peter Erb, Mark Dermot and David J. Molian 18. How Group Membership is Formed: Self Categorisation or Group Beliefs? The Construction of a European Identity in France and Greece Xenia Chryssochoou 19. Components of Social Identity or the Achilles Heel of the Field in the Case of the European Integration? Elisabeth S. Sousa 20. Intergroup Attitudes, Levels of Identification and Social Change Margarita Sanchez-Mazas 21. English Children’s Acquisition of a European Identity Martyn Barrett 22. In Search of the ‘Euro-Manager’: Convergences and Divergences in Event Management Peter B. Smith and Mark Peterson 23. Reality Changes Faster than Research: National and Supranational Identity in Social Representations of the European Community in the Context of Changes in International Relations Annamaria Silvana de Rosa Part Four: Coping with Social Change 24. Social Identity of East Germans: The Process of Unification between East and West Germany as a Challenge to Cope with ‘Negative Social Identity’ Amélie Mummendey, Rosemarie Mielke, Michael Wenzel and Uwe Kanning 25. Alienation and Social Identity: The Bringing Together of Two Theoretical Paradigms Mary Horton. Author Index. Subject Index.

Dame Glynis M. Breakwell is a social psychologist whose work has focussed upon identity (unique and shared), responses to risk and threat (especially in public crises), and the personal and social significance of mistrust and social representation processes. She holds Emeritus Professorships in psychology at the University of Bath and the University of Surrey and is a visiting Professor in the Institute for Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society.Evanthia Lyons

• List of Contributors. New Preface Part One: Towards a Social Psychological Analysis of Social Change in Europe 1. Changing European Identities and Social Change in Europe: A Challenge for Social Psychology Evanthia Lyons and Glynis M. Breakwell 2. Identity Processes and Social Changes Glynis M. Breakwell Part Two: Changing National Identities? 3. Coping with Social Change: Processes of Social Memory in the Reconstruction of Identities Evanthia Lyons 4. Unimagined Community? Some Social Psychological Issues Concerning English National Identity Susan Condor 5. The Construction of Social Categories and Processes of Social Change: Arguing about National Identities Nick Hopkins and Steve Reicher 6. Ascribed Identities and the Social Identity Space: An Ego/Ecological Analysis Marisa Zavalloni 7. Spanish International Orientations: Between Europe and Iberoamerica José R. Torregrosa 8. Dimensions of Social Identity in Northern Ireland Karen Trew and Denny E. Benson 9. Cultural-Political Differences in Perception of Ethnic Concepts in Central-Eastern and Western Europe Viera Bacova and Patricia Ellis 10. Changing Social Identities of the Bulgarians Velina Topalova 11. Nationalism as an International Ideology: Imagining the Nation, Others and the World of Nations Michael Billig 12. Regional Identity Formation and Community Integration in the Lega Lombarda Carlo E. Ruzza 13. A Safe European Home? Global Environmental Change and European National Identities Jonathan Chase 14. Vietnamese Refugees in Finland – Changing Cultural Identity Karmela Liebkind 15. Migrant Identities in Conflict: Acculturation Attitudes and Perceived Acculturation Ideologies Gabriel Horenczyk Part Three: Constructing a European Identity 16. A Social Identity Perspective on European Integration Marco Cinnirella 17. Social Representations of History and Attitudes to European Unification in Britain, France and Germany Denis J. Hilton, Hans-Peter Erb, Mark Dermot and David J. Molian 18. How Group Membership is Formed: Self Categorisation or Group Beliefs? The Construction of a European Identity in France and Greece Xenia Chryssochoou 19. Components of Social Identity or the Achilles Heel of the Field in the Case of the European Integration? Elisabeth S. Sousa 20. Intergroup Attitudes, Levels of Identification and Social Change Margarita Sanchez-Mazas 21. English Children’s Acquisition of a European Identity Martyn Barrett 22. In Search of the ‘Euro-Manager’: Convergences and Divergences in Event Management Peter B. Smith and Mark Peterson 23. Reality Changes Faster than Research: National and Supranational Identity in Social Representations of the European Community in the Context of Changes in International Relations Annamaria Silvana de Rosa Part Four: Coping with Social Change 24. Social Identity of East Germans: The Process of Unification between East and West Germany as a Challenge to Cope with ‘Negative Social Identity’ Amélie Mummendey, Rosemarie Mielke, Michael Wenzel and Uwe Kanning 25. Alienation and Social Identity: The Bringing Together of Two Theoretical Paradigms Mary Horton. Author Index. Subject Index.

Dame Glynis M. Breakwell is a social psychologist whose work has focussed upon identity (unique and shared), responses to risk and threat (especially in public crises), and the personal and social significance of mistrust and social representation processes. She holds Emeritus Professorships in psychology at the University of Bath and the University of Surrey and is a visiting Professor in the Institute for Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society.Evanthia Lyons

• List of Contributors. New Preface Part One: Towards a Social Psychological Analysis of Social Change in Europe 1. Changing European Identities and Social Change in Europe: A Challenge for Social Psychology Evanthia Lyons and Glynis M. Breakwell 2. Identity Processes and Social Changes Glynis M. Breakwell Part Two: Changing National Identities? 3. Coping with Social Change: Processes of Social Memory in the Reconstruction of Identities Evanthia Lyons 4. Unimagined Community? Some Social Psychological Issues Concerning English National Identity Susan Condor 5. The Construction of Social Categories and Processes of Social Change: Arguing about National Identities Nick Hopkins and Steve Reicher 6. Ascribed Identities and the Social Identity Space: An Ego/Ecological Analysis Marisa Zavalloni 7. Spanish International Orientations: Between Europe and Iberoamerica José R. Torregrosa 8. Dimensions of Social Identity in Northern Ireland Karen Trew and Denny E. Benson 9. Cultural-Political Differences in Perception of Ethnic Concepts in Central-Eastern and Western Europe Viera Bacova and Patricia Ellis 10. Changing Social Identities of the Bulgarians Velina Topalova 11. Nationalism as an International Ideology: Imagining the Nation, Others and the World of Nations Michael Billig 12. Regional Identity Formation and Community Integration in the Lega Lombarda Carlo E. Ruzza 13. A Safe European Home? Global Environmental Change and European National Identities Jonathan Chase 14. Vietnamese Refugees in Finland – Changing Cultural Identity Karmela Liebkind 15. Migrant Identities in Conflict: Acculturation Attitudes and Perceived Acculturation Ideologies Gabriel Horenczyk Part Three: Constructing a European Identity 16. A Social Identity Perspective on European Integration Marco Cinnirella 17. Social Representations of History and Attitudes to European Unification in Britain, France and Germany Denis J. Hilton, Hans-Peter Erb, Mark Dermot and David J. Molian 18. How Group Membership is Formed: Self Categorisation or Group Beliefs? The Construction of a European Identity in France and Greece Xenia Chryssochoou 19. Components of Social Identity or the Achilles Heel of the Field in the Case of the European Integration? Elisabeth S. Sousa 20. Intergroup Attitudes, Levels of Identification and Social Change Margarita Sanchez-Mazas 21. English Children’s Acquisition of a European Identity Martyn Barrett 22. In Search of the ‘Euro-Manager’: Convergences and Divergences in Event Management Peter B. Smith and Mark Peterson 23. Reality Changes Faster than Research: National and Supranational Identity in Social Representations of the European Community in the Context of Changes in International Relations Annamaria Silvana de Rosa Part Four: Coping with Social Change 24. Social Identity of East Germans: The Process of Unification between East and West Germany as a Challenge to Cope with ‘Negative Social Identity’ Amélie Mummendey, Rosemarie Mielke, Michael Wenzel and Uwe Kanning 25. Alienation and Social Identity: The Bringing Together of Two Theoretical Paradigms Mary Horton. Author Index. Subject Index.