Date: 2023
Type: Article
Europeanism : a historical view
Contemporary European history, 2023, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 287-304
OSTROWSKI, Marius, Europeanism : a historical view, Contemporary European history, 2023, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 287-304
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74029
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The ideology of Europeanism – defined as a commitment to the political, economic, and cultural consolidation of the European continent – has undergone major transformations during the twentieth century. Yet the study of Europeanism has not as yet systematically examined the range of conceptual meanings that the various strands of the Europeanist ideological family exhibit. Instead, Europeanism has typically been treated either ahistorically as a set of desirable social ideals and values, or reductively as a quality exclusively associated with European institutions in their current form. Both obscure the fundamental, wide-ranging debates over the nature of ‘Europe’ and ‘Europeanness’ that have shaped the substantive development of Europeanist ideologies over the last century. This article maps out the key areas of conceptual contestation that are consistently shared by all Europeanisms regarding the boundaries of Europe, the degree of European consolidation, and how ‘Europeanisation’ is to be realised.
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Published online: 15 November 2021
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74029
Full-text via DOI: 10.1017/S0960777321000485
ISSN: 0960-7773; 1469-2171
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2020-2022)
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