Europe, Discourse, and Institutions: Challenging the Mainstream in European Studies

ISBN-13: 9781138793163 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 120 str.

Cristian Nitoiu; Nikola Tomic

Opis

This text focuses on how discourse and various narratives contribute to the construction of the European Union as a political actor, thus seeking to challenge the more established approaches to the study of the Union. It sheds light on the way discourses about the European Union are created, perpetuated and then translated into policy outcomes. Most of the contributions attempt to account for the differences that usually arise between discourse and policy practices.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Making the Mythical European: Elucidating the EU’s Powerful Integration Instrument of Discursive Identity Construction  3. The Battle Against Unfair Trade in the EU Trade Policy: A Discourse Analysis of Trade Protection  4. ‘Bursting the Brussels Bubble’: Using Ethnography to Explore the European Parliament as a Transnational Political Field  5. Coordinative Discourses in Brussels: An Agency-oriented Model of EU Foreign Policy Analysis  6. The Narrative Construction of the European Union in External Relations  7. The EU and Russia: Competing Discourses, Practices and Interests in the Shared Neighbourhood

O autorze

Cristian Nitoiu is Post-doctoral Research Fellow within the European Neighbourhood Policy Chair at the College of Europe, Natolin Campus. Nikola Tomic has recently completed his PhD within the Department of Politics, History and International Relations at Loughborough University, UK.