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Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe

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  • Fligstein, Neil

    (Class of 1939 Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley)

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The European Union's market integration project has dramatically altered economic activity around Europe. This book presents extensive evidence on how trade has increased, jobs have been created, and European business has been reorganized. The changes in the economy have been accompanied by dramatic changes in how people from different societies interact. This book argues provocatively that these changes have produced a truly transnational-European-society. The book explores the nature of that society and its relationship to the creation of a European identity, popular culture, and politics. Much of the current political conflict around Europe can be attributed to who is and who is not involved in European society. Business owners, managers, professionals, white-collar workers, the educated, and the young have all benefited from European economic integration, specifically by interacting more and more with their counterparts in other societies. They tend to think of themselves as Europeans. Older, poorer, less educated, and blue-collar citizens have benefited less. They view the EU as intrusive on national sovereignty, or they fear its pro-business orientation will overwhelm the national welfare states. They have maintained national identities. There is a third group of mainly-middle class citizens who see the EU in mostly positive terms and sometimes-but not always-think of themselves as Europeans. It is this swing group that is most critical for the future of the European project. If they favor more European cooperation, politicians will oblige. But, if they prefer that policies remain wedded to the nation, European cooperation will stall.

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  • Fligstein, Neil, 2009. "Euroclash: The EU, European Identity, and the Future of Europe," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780199580859.
  • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780199580859
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    1. Mathias Dolls, 2019. "An Unemployment Re-Insurance Scheme for the Eurozone? Stabilizing and Redistributive Effects," EconPol Policy Reports 10, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.
    2. François Foret & Jana Vargovčíková, 2021. "The Prize of Governance. How the European Union Uses Symbolic Distinctions to Mobilize Society and Foster Competitiveness," Journal of Common Market Studies, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 59(5), pages 1033-1050, September.
    3. Steffen Poetzschke, 2015. "Migrant mobilities in Europe: Comparing Turkish to Romanian migrants," Migration Letters, Migration Letters, vol. 12(3), pages 315-326, September.
    4. Sarah Ciaglia & Clemens Fuest & Friedrich Heinemann, 2018. "What a feeling?! How to promote ‘European Identity’," EconPol Policy Reports 9, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.
    5. Lis-Plesińska, Aleksandra, 2022. "Predictions of electricity prices as embedded devices for coordinating European futures," economic sociology. perspectives and conversations, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, vol. 24(1), pages 11-17.
    6. Gabriela Borz & Heinz Brandenburg & Carlos Mendez, 2022. "The impact of EU Cohesion Policy on European identity: A comparative analysis of EU regions," European Union Politics, , vol. 23(2), pages 259-281, June.

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