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Which Europe is it Anyway?

In: The Decline and Fall of Europe

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  • Francesco M. Bongiovanni

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Jean Monnet famously said that European unity would be forged through crisis. The Slovenian intellectual Slavoj Zizek went a step further when he stated Europe will need to go through no less than a political catastrophe before it can put together a unified political vision.1 Someone once said that peace between Israelis and Palestinians would only be possible after a civil war in Israel and a civil war among Palestinians. It is to be hoped that the analogy will not apply to Europe. For Zizek the European system, with political democratization as its core philosophy inherited from ancient Greece, is the only valid alternative to the American and the authoritarian capitalistic Chinese. But the danger is that core European countries will lose interest in Project Europe and go their own separate ways if political unity is not achieved soon. Can the EU become something more than a mere club of nations? What sort of Europe should Europe be?

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  • Francesco M. Bongiovanni, 2012. "Which Europe is it Anyway?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Decline and Fall of Europe, chapter 0, pages 55-86, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-00906-7_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137009067_4
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