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Ian Manners

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Ian Manners, photo.

A Different Europe is Possible : The Professionalization of EU Studies and the Dilemmas of Integration in the 21st Century

Author

  • Ian Manners
  • Ben Rosamond

Summary, in English

We suggest that a renewed focus on integration (broadly conceived) would enable
the field to contemplate the ways in which crisis dynamics interconnect with and amplify three founding and (and unresolved) dilemmas of the European project. These can be summarized as (a) the constant tension between the goal of delivering an EU-wide market order versus the desire to ensure social solidarity, (b) the tension between the development of a legal-constitutional order versus the need to secure appropriate channels for democratic authorization of policy decisions, and (c) the tension between a developing cosmopolitan social order characterized by free movement on the one hand and ongoing national communitarian impulses on the other. These tensions open space for different theoretical perspectives on the dilemmas of the European project, in particular an agonistic cosmopolitical approach from within critical social theory. To better reveal and address the challenges discussed here, a pluralistic field is one in which all the humanities and social sciences have something to contribute to the ontological, epistemological, and crucially methodological questions of European integration, EU studies, and understanding the EU itself in order to make a different Europe possible.

Publishing year

2018-07-22

Language

English

Pages

28-38

Publication/Series

Journal of Common Market Studies

Volume

56

Issue

S1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Political Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1468-5965