Ian Manners
Professor
A Different Europe is Possible : The Professionalization of EU Studies and the Dilemmas of Integration in the 21st Century
Author
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.
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