Debating European Identity

Branislav Radeljić is Senior Lecturer in International Politics within the School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London.

• Contents: Branislav Radeljić: Debating European Identity – Nick Stevenson: European Freedom and European Memory – Adam F. Kola: European Identity, Minor Transnationalism and a Semi-Peripheral Perspective – Emma De Angelis: The EU’s Historical Narrative and Enlargement to Eastern Europe – Fran Cetti: Europe and the ‘Global Alien’: The Centrality of the Forced Migrant to a Pan-European Identity – Bo Stråth: The Idea of a European Identity as an Escape Forward: A Historical Perspective on the Present Euro Crisis – Dora Kostakopoulou: Political Alchemies, Identity Games and the Sovereign Debt Instability: European Identity in Crisis or the Crisis in Identity-Talk? – Victor M. Olivieri: The Trajectory and Political Implications of European Identity in a Time of Crisis – Martina Topić: European Identity and the Far Right in Central Europe: A New Emerging Concept or a New European ‘Other’? – Miruna Andreea Balosin: The European Public Space: More Than Words? – Monica Merutiu: Religious Identity and Secularization in Europe – Ayhan Kaya: Europeanization or De-Europeanization: The Myth of Tolerance in Turkey.

«Defying disciplinary boundaries, this superb volume brings together diverse perspectives on the concept and power of European identity. I know of no other collection that spans the theoretical and empirical range of this volume. It is a must-read for scholars of the European Union in all disciplines.» (Professor Beverly Crawford, Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley)«A timely book at a critical moment when the European Union finds itself once more at a difficult crossroads. This volume sheds lights into the processes of creating a European identity so far and how such processes relate to politics, geopolitics, economics, religion and democracy.» (Professor Anna Triandafyllidou, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute)«The question of identity is at the heart of the debate about the future of Europe and of the EU. This collection of essays, stressing the constructive and contingent character of political identity, reveals the complexity of identity politics in a time of crisis, illuminating in a subtle way the choices that Europeans face.» (Professor Albert Weale, School of Public Policy, University College London)