Shore, Cris, 1959-

Building Europe : the cultural politics of European integration / Cris Shore. - xii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.



Pt. 1. Inventing Europe -- Forging a European nation-state? the European Union and questions of culture -- Creating the people's Europe: symbols, history and invented traditions -- Citizenship of the Union: the cultural construction of a European citizen -- Symbolising boundaries: the single currency and the art of European governance -- Pt. 2. EU civil servants -- Introduction: European Commission civil servants: the new Europeans? -- A 'supranational' civil service? the role of the Commission in the integration peocess -- The Brussels context: integration and engrenage among EU elites -- Transnational, supranational or post-national? the organised culture of the Commission -- Conclusions: European construction, democracy and the politics of culture.

0415180155 (pbk.) 0415180147




Avrupa Birliği
European Union


Milliyetçilik--Avrupa
Nationalism--Europe


Europe--Politics and government--1989-
Avrupa--Siyaset ve yönetim--1989-

D2009 / .S54 2000