Europe: Space, Territory and Identity

Riva Kastoryano (1)

1 CERI - Centre de recherches internationales (Sciences Po, CNRS)

The process of Europeanization like the process of globalization requires a political, social, cultural alignment among nations, a source of an identity anxiety. Europe as a political project unquestionably challenges the nation state: supranational institutions impose norms and values on nation-states, and transnational organizations create a space for political participation that goes beyond national territories. Together they re-map a European “political community.” This chapter asks: What are the roles of supranational institutions in shaping such a political community? What are the implications of the emergence of a European public space on the understanding of the European citizenship? What political model for the European Union?

Domains: Political science; Sociology

Riva Kastoryano. Europe: Space, Territory and Identity. Janet Laible; Henry Barkey. European Responses to Globalization : Resistance, Adaptation and Alternatives, Elsevier B.V., pp.93 - 111, 2006. ⟨hal-03398136⟩