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Aftermath of World War II
Author_Juan Diez Medrano
British Empire
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Communism
Continental Europe
Criticism
Czechoslovakia
Democracy
Democratic deficit
Dictatorship
Die Zeit
Early modern period
East Germany
Eastern Bloc
Eastern Europe
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Eurobarometer
Europe
European Economic Community
European integration
European Parliament
European Union
Evaluation
Explanation
Foreign policy
Foreign worker
Francoist Spain
German reunification
Germans
Globalization
Governance
Great power
Hegemony
Heinrich Mann
Hispanidad
Imperialism
Isolationism
Legislation
Man Booker Prize
Modernity
Nation state
National identity
National interest
Nazi Germany
Nazism
Neues Deutschland
New Statesman
Op-ed
Political culture
Political party
Politician
Politics
Protectionism
Public sphere
Respondent
Result
Schengen Agreement
Skepticism
Sovereignty
Soviet Union
Spaniards
Superiority (short story)
Supporter
Supranational union
The Economist
Unemployment
United Kingdom
United States of Europe
University of Stuttgart
West Germany
Western Europe
World War II
Product details
- ISBN 9780691146508
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 2010
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book provides a major empirical analysis of differing attitudes to European integration in three of Europe's most important countries: Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. From its beginnings, the European Union has resounded with debate over whether to move toward a federal or intergovernmental system. However, Juan Diez Medrano argues that empirical analyses of support for integration--by specialists in international relations, comparative politics, and survey research--have failed to explain why some countries lean toward federalism whereas others lean toward intergovernmentalism. By applying frame analysis to a unique set of primary sources (in-depth interviews, newspaper articles, novels, history texts, political speeches, and survey data), Diez Medrano demonstrates the role of major historical events in transforming national cultures and thus creating new opportunities for political transformation. Clearly written and rigorously argued, Framing Europe explains differences in support for European integration between the three countries studied in light of the degree to which each realized its particular "supranational project" outside Western Europe.
Only the United Kingdom succeeded in consolidating an empire and retaining it after World War II, while Germany and Spain each abandoned their corresponding aspirations. These differences meant that these countries' populations developed different degrees of identification as Europeans and, partly in consequence, different degrees of support for the building of a federal Europe.
Juan Diez Medrano is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of "Divided Nations: Class, Politics, and Nationalism in the Basque Country and Catalonia".
