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A Community of Europeans: The Requisite Underpinnings

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Scholars often presume that cultural homogeneity is an essential building block for any community. This, if correct, would represent an insurmountable obstacle to the type of European integration envisaged in the Maastricht Treaty. Through an examination of theories of community articulated by Anthony Smith and Karl Deutsch, this pessimism is countered with a more optimistic prognosis. The social cement of the modem liberal community consists primarily of the individual's belief that others are of the same community. The European Union is poised to become a genuine community of Europeans and European integration is likely to proceed apace.

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  • Paul How, 1995. "A Community of Europeans: The Requisite Underpinnings," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 33(1), pages 27-46, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jcmkts:v:33:y:1995:i:1:p:27-46
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-5965.1995.tb00515.x
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    1. Kyriacou, Andreas, 2004. "Economic integration, legitimacy and European Union enlargement," MPRA Paper 115932, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Beate Kohler-Koch, 1997. "The European Union Facing Enlargement: Still a System sui generis?," MZES Working Papers 20, MZES.
    3. Emmanuel Sigalas, 2009. "Does ERASMUS Student Mobility promote a EuropeanIdentity?," The Constitutionalism Web-Papers p0036, University of Hamburg, Faculty for Economics and Social Sciences, Department of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science.

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