Europe Old and New

Transnationalism, Belonging, Xenophobia

Ray Taras (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

266 Seiten

2008
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-5516-7 (ISBN)

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Is Europe indeed uniting or instead falling apart as a result of anti-immigrant prejudices, a massive Islamic influx, and ancient intra-European hatreds? This innovative and engaging book explores this key question by examining the national and religious phobias and prejudices, antipathies and sympathies, stereotypes and heterotypes of Europe west and east. Considering the sources of Europe's culture-based divide, Ray Taras argues that the idea of two "Europes" is grounded both in reality and myth. The accession process that brought a dozen new members into the European Union after 2004 highlighted the persisting gulf between "old" and "new" Europe. While many concrete borders between east and west were removed (commercial, legal, passport regimes), many remained (absence of a single Euro currency zone, labor market, and security community). Virtual borders too were invented or re-imagined: the postmaterialist, inclusionary, tolerant values supposedly found in old Europe versus the materialist, nationalistic, xenophobic ones of new Europe.

After reviewing the two Europes' contrasting historical legacies, Taras examines the EU institutions designed to overcome the historical European divide. He considers the treaties, political rhetoric, citizen attitudes, and literary narratives of belonging and separation that both bind and fray the fabric of Europe. Throughout, this interdisciplinary work provides a comprehensive, hard-hitting, and unabashed review of how enlarged Europe embraces contrasting understandings of its political home and of who belongs and who does not.

Ray Taras is professor of international relations and director of the world literature program at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Introduction: Old Europe and New
Chapter 1: Europe's Institutions and Millennial Expansion
Chapter 2: Quarreling Over Institutions in an Enlarging EU
Chapter 3: Metacultural Presumptions of European Elites
Chapter 4: The Politics of Phobias
Chapter 5: European Publics and their Phobias
Chapter 6: Ethnic Hierarchies
Chapter 7: Narrations of Home Across Borders
Chapter 8: Narrating Europe's Phobias
Conclusion

Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 228 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7425-5516-X / 074255516X
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-5516-7 / 9780742555167
Zustand	Neuware