Constructing the EU's Political Identity

Sabine Saurugger is Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Grenoble, France, and Research Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France.Mark Thatcher is Professor of Political Science at Luiss University Rome, Italy, and Visiting Professor at LSE, UK.

• 1. Constructing EU's Political Identity in Policy Making (Sabine Saurugger & Mark Thatcher).- 2. Constructing and De-constructing the European Political Identity: The Contradictory Logic of the EU's Institutional System (Sergio Fabbrini).- 3. Affirming Europe with Trade: Deal Negotiations and the Making of a Political Identity (Francesco Duina & Ezekiel Smith).- 4. Transforming Identity in International Society: The Potential and Failure of European Integration (Thomas Diez).- 5. Do Central Bankers Dream of Political Union? From Epistemic Community to Common Identity (Erik Jones).- 6. The EU's Legal Identities and the Court of Justice of the EU (Sabine Saurugger & Fabien Terpan).- 7. Common Market, Normative Power or Super-State? Conflicting Political Identities in EU Asylum and Immigration Policy (Sandra Lavenex).- 8. Direct and Market Governance Paths for the Creation of an EU Political Identity: Cultural Heritage Policy (Mark Thatcher).- 9. Understanding the Identity of a Policy Field: The European Commission and Liberal Modernization in the Doman of Labour and Social Policy (Georg Menz).- 10. Comment: The EU and European Identity (Neil Fligstein).- 11. EU Political Identity, Integration and Top-down Analysis: A Reply to Neil Fligstein (Sabine Saurugger & Mark Thatcher).