In Search for a European Identity: The Role of Cultural, Civic and Instrumental Components in the Construction of European Identity Cover Image

U potrazi za evropskim identitetom: Uloga kulturne, građanske i instrumentalne komponente u izgradnji evropskog identiteta
In Search for a European Identity: The Role of Cultural, Civic and Instrumental Components in the Construction of European Identity

Author(s): Milena Gligorijević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Fakultet političkih nauka Univerziteta u Beogradu
Keywords: European identity; theories of European identity; models of European identity; identity components

Summary/Abstract: After the failure of the European constitutional process, the question of creating the European identity has become in the center of attention of the academic public again. According to the scientific literature about Europe it is mostly discussed as the set of institutional solutions, but not as the collective cultural space, the dominant paradigm discussing the European identity is the one that sees it as entirely political, indeed. The goal of this work is to show that insisting on creating of purely political European identity has its basic neither in theory nor in practice. In order to document the claim, in this work the author critically investigates different theoretical approaches studying the European identity and analyzing the results of available empirical researches tries to determine a role of cultural, civil and instrumental components in its creation.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 149-166
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian