The dual nature of European identity: subjective awareness and coherence

Caporaso, James A.; Kim, Min-hyung

doi:10.1080/13501760802453155

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“…Some issues -for instance the debate on the relationship between the national and European identity (e.g. Díez Medrano and Gutiérrez 2001;Carey 2002;Risse 2002Westle 2003a,b;Deutsch 2006: 165-171;Bruter 2005: 15-19, 114-118;Caporaso and Kim 2009;Hooghe and Marks 2009: 13) -could not be discussed in this Living Review in full length. In this branch of research on European identity, different models (including a competition model, a concordance model and a sandwich model) are proposed and examined.…”

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confidence: 99%

EU governance and European identity

Kaina¹,

Karolewski²

2013

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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This Living Review presents an overview of the research on European identity in the context of EU governance by focussing on central debates in the political science literature. It departs from the problems of disagreement between European citizens and their elites as well as the lack of a European demos. Against this background, the article discusses the functions of collective identity including the legitimation function and solution of collective dilemmas. Here, two perspectives pertaining to these functions are depicted: first, the issue of European public space and second, the integrative workings of European citizenship. Next, the article explores the conceptual and methodological problems of the research on European collective identity. In particular, it focuses on the conceptual ambiguity of the collective identity term and problems of operationalization and measurement. Following this, the article discusses the literature on identity technologies of the EU and identifies the shortcomings of identity technologies with regard to EU governance.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

EU governance and European identity

Kaina¹,

Karolewski²

2013

Living Rev. Euro. Gov.

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“…With the signature of the Treaty of Rome in 1957, which laid the constitutional foundations for the European Union, the creation of a European identity became an issue to address, a goal to achieve, a system of values to identify, protect and build over time. Intensified over the last 15 years, the debate on a European identity, its definition, its building process and its co‐existence with other identities, is still rich and open, and it stimulates more questions than answers (Bruter, ; Caporaso and Kim, ; Chacha, ; Risse, , ; Treib, ).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Intensified over the last 15 years, the debate on a European identity, its definition, its building process and its co-existence with other identities, is still rich and open, and it stimulates more questions than answers (Bruter, 2005;Caporaso and Kim, 2009;Chacha, 2012;Risse, 2002Risse, , 2014Treib, 2014).…”

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Cohesion Policies and the Creation of a European Identity: The Role of Territorial Identity

Capello

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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Among the factors highlighted by the literature as crucial for the success of cohesion policies in generating satisfaction among citizens, and therefore in acting positively on the constitution of an European identity, this paper emphasizes a particular one, territorial identity. Elaborating on the definition of territorial identity as a local condition in which private interests coincide with public ones, the paper claims that territorial identity plays an important role in a European identitybuilding process. In fact, by increasing the probability that local public expenditures match private interests, territorial identity generates a favourable context where the critical factors that hamper the successful programming, design and implementation of cohesion policies can be overcome.

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“…This relationship is crucial though, because ‘as the free movement provisions of the treaties are realized, individuals are increasingly affected by market and policy externalities, i.e. they increasingly have a stake in the EU’ (Caporaso and Kim, , p. 21). The measures used by Caporaso and Kim to capture market and policy externalities are limited to the variability of unemployment rates, inflation rates and GDP per capita, as well as the proportion of exports to the EU‐6 and EU‐12 among total exports.…”

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A Multi‐Level Approach to European Identity: Does Integration Foster Identity?

Luhmann¹

2017

J of Common Market Studies

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Many integration theories predict that heightened integration in Europe will give rise to a European identity. As integration advances, so does the scholarly debate on identity. This article endeavours to contribute to the debate by investigating the relationship between European integration and European identity longitudinally in 14 countries over 21 years from 1992 to 2012. Using Eurobarometer and EU Index data, this relationship is found to be exponential with current integration levels predicting the imminent emergence of a European identity. In order to better understand whose identities are impacted or formed most by integration, the paper then turns to three intervening concepts: (1) cognitive mobilization, (2) optimism, and (3) support of the EU. All of these amplify the effect of integration on identity with the noteworthy exception of optimism. Finally, the article evaluates the implications of these findings for neofunctionalism and the literature on European identity more broadly.

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The dual nature of European identity: subjective awareness and coherence

Cited by 48 publications

References 22 publications

EU governance and European identity

EU governance and European identity

Cohesion Policies and the Creation of a European Identity: The Role of Territorial Identity

A Multi‐Level Approach to European Identity: Does Integration Foster Identity?

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