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 deep

An ambitious volume which asks why hopes are fading for a single European identity, despite decades of European integration.

This book looks at the discursive construction of European identities in a variety of institutional and non-institutional contexts and through a variety of soci

Cultural identity is a key area of debate in contemporary Europe. Despite widespread use of the past in the construction of ethnic, national and European identi

Departing from traditional analyses based on internal measures, this book explores the creation of a European identity through the EU's interaction with the ext