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Aristotle
Augustine of Hippo
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bell hooks
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citizenship
Civic friendship
economy
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EU citizenship
EU class struggles
EU democracy
EU Strategy
EU technocracy
European integration
European prince
European public sphere
European social contract
European Union
Europessimism
Hannah Arendt
Immanuel Kant
inequality
integration
John Rawls
Karl Marx
Mary Wollstonecraft
Niccolo Machiavelli
peace
philosophy
Plato
policy
Thomas Hobbes
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- ISBN 9781526193933
- Weight: 527g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book offers a fresh look at some of the most challenging dilemmas of European integration and proposes innovative solutions to them by building on perspectives and insights from twelve classical authors in the history of political thought. The book simultaneously offers an original introduction to critical debates in EU studies and makes key political thinkers more accessible to contemporary readers by presenting present-day policy applications of their doctrines. While each chapter discusses a specific challenge for the EU, five key themes appear recurrently throughout the book: (i) the prospects for peace in Europe; (ii) the conditions for an inclusive EU democracy; (iii) socioeconomic inequalities in the EU; (iv) strategies to promote political change in Europe; and (v) the requisites for a fully-fledged EU citizenship. The authors discussed are Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Wollstonecraft, Marx, Arendt, Rawls and hooks.
João Labareda is the coordinator of the European Innovation Ecosystems work programme at the European Commission
