Author : Lars-Erik Cederman
Release : 2001
Genre : Political Science
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Constructing Europe's Identity by : Lars-Erik Cederman
Download or read book Constructing Europe's Identity written by Lars-Erik Cederman. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors assess not only the benefits, but also the costs of attempts to assert a European identity. Referring to debates about the respective merits of deepening and widening, they address the equally important associated tradeoffs between exclusion and dilution: they point to the risks on the one hand of a Europe that excludes foreign goods, immigrants and entire countries, and on the other of an unfocused definition of Europe that may dilute the very values that a "European identity" is intended to protect.