The "difference engine': constructing and representing the international identity of the European Union

Manners, Ian; Whitman, Richard

doi:10.1080/1350176032000085360

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“…I have not discussed the source of European identity, but for the time being let us assume those authors who see it founded on civic sources are right (e.g. Waever 1998;Schimmelfennig 2001;Manners and Whitman 2003). This means that the EU occupies the lower-right area of our table.…”

Section: Identitymentioning

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Imagine the EU: the metaphorical construction of a supra-nationalist identity

Hülsse

2006

J Int Relat Dev

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The European Union (EU) is a novel political entity in many respects. For example, instead of the monolithic political structure of nation-states, it features a layered structure and a 'variable geometry'. This institutional complexity has been interpreted as an indicator of the EU being a post-modern political system. This article inquires whether the EU's institutional post-modernness is accompanied by a post-modern identity. I argue that an investigation of collective identity requires a reconstruction of how a community is imagined. As metaphors are the principal linguistic means of our imagination, I reconstruct the imaginations of the European community by analyzing its metaphorizations. How do the metaphors of EU enlargement construct European identity? It can be shown that in the German EUenlargement discourse of the 1990s, European identity was hardly constructed in a post-national/post-modern way. Rather, European identity was imagined much like a modern national identity.

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Section: Identitymentioning

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Imagine the EU: the metaphorical construction of a supra-nationalist identity

Hülsse

2006

J Int Relat Dev

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“…The EU support for a positive 'sustainable development' agenda in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been described as 'ambitious' (see Bretherton and Vogler, 2000). This is a norm that differentiates it from other global actors (Manners and Whitman, 2003).…”

Section: The Eu As a Normative Powermentioning

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Leading the way? The European Union at the WSSD

Burchell

Lightfoot

2004

Eur. Env.

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The 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) presented an important test of how far the European Union's (EU's) commitment to sustainable development had evolved. This article applies the conception of the EU as a normative power to the EU's role at Johannesburg. It examines how the EU operationalized the concept of sustainable development before analysing the role the EU played in the outcomes of the WSSD and the factors that facilitated or constrained the potential extension of an EU norm in this field. In doing so, the article questions the depth of the EU's current commitment to sustainable development, suggesting that while it may represent a leader in some fields of environmental policy it remains some way short of a coherent adoption of sustainable development as an EU norm. As a result, the factors constraining the development of a norm prevented the EU offering strong leadership at the WSSD.

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“…Jolyon Howorth, « The CESDP and the Forging of a European Security Culture », Politique européenne, cité, p. 88-108. ou à la menace d'emploi de la force 9 , le « soft power » de l'Union européenne n'en est pas moins musclé 10 . La militarisation de la PESD en témoigne, qui suscite de fortes tensions entre les États membres qui ont tendance à recourir systématiquement à l'action militaire et ceux qui tiennent à privilégier le volet civil 11 . La guerre en Irak a conduit les plus réticents parmi ces derniers (la Suède, la Finlande) à réviser leurs positions en faveur du volet militaire.…”

Section: Une Culture Stratégique Européenneunclassified

L'Europe de la défense à la croisée des chemins ?

Irondelle¹

2005

Critique Internationale

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The "difference engine': constructing and representing the international identity of the European Union

Cited by 114 publications

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Imagine the EU: the metaphorical construction of a supra-nationalist identity

Imagine the EU: the metaphorical construction of a supra-nationalist identity

Leading the way? The European Union at the WSSD

L'Europe de la défense à la croisée des chemins ?

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