TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - The pursuit of Europe : a history
A1  - Pagden, Anthony, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2022
ED  - First edition
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5569058
AB  - "The Pursuit of Europe tells the story of the evolution of the 'European project', from the end of the Napoleonic Wars, which saw the earliest creation of a 'Concert of Europe', right through to Brexit. The question was how, after centuries of internecine conflict, to create a united Europe while still preserving the political legal and cultural integrity of each individual nation. The need to find an answer to this question became more acute after two world wars had shown that if the nations of Europe were to continue to play a role in the world they could now only do so together. To achieve that, however, they had to be prepared to merge their zealously-guarded sovereign powers into a new form of trans-national constitutionalism. This, the European Union has tried to do. Here, Anthony Pagden argues that it has created not as its enemies have claimed, a 'super-state' but a new post-national order united in a political life based, not upon the old shibboleths of nationalism and patriotism, but upon a common body of values and aspirations. It is this, argues Pagden, that will allow the Union to defeat its political enemies from within, and to overcome the difficulties, from mass migration to the pandemic, which it faces from without. But it will only succeed in doing so if it also continues to evolve as it has over the past two centuries."--
SN  - 978-0-19-875766-5 kovakantinen
KW  - Euroopan unioni.
KW  - European Union : History.
KW  - historia
KW  - EU-politiikka
KW  - integraatio
KW  - EU-politik
KW  - integration
KW  - European Union countries : Politics and government.
KW  - Eurooppa
KW  - Europa
ER  -