European Nationalism and European Union

d’Appollonia, Ariane Chebel

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“…The literature on Euronationalism traces the concept from Classical antiquity to the interwar and post-WWII period (Cattani, 2017; Hobson, 2012). Eventually, Euronationalism divided into two distinct ideologies, an anti-national European nationalism and a pro-national European nationalism (d’Appollonia, 2009). The first is rooted in cosmopolitan and liberal values, a clear commitment to pacifism and a rejection of state nationalisms, and a sense that Europe was fated to play a particular international role.…”

Section: A Shared European Nation – or A Europe Of Nations?mentioning

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“…We can trace it back to the Classical period, and we find it too in the writings of authors such as Rousseau and Voltaire. The idea of a common European identity has been often entangled with notions of civilizational and/or racial superiority, as well as imperialism and colonialism (Cattani, 2017; d’Appollonia, 2009). However, in contrast to previous periods, the European Union (EU) now offers a political arena in which to voice these ideas—that is, RRPs can claim that common foes are threatening not only each individual European nation, but also their shared soil, people, and way of life.…”

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Being European, the nationalist way: Europe in the discourse of radical right parties

Beaudonnet

Hoyo

2023

Party Politics

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European radical right parties (RRPs) have recently experienced strong electoral success and have strengthened their positions within the European Parliament. While their Eurosceptic positions are well documented in the literature, the fact that most RRPs refer not only to their nations but to Europe in general, as a collective, in order to ground their nationalist visions remains understudied. We investigate this issue by analyzing the discourses of MEPs from 24 radical right parties in the 8th legislature of the European Parliament (2014–2019). Relying on a vast corpus (36,413 speeches) and using quantitative text analysis, this research sheds light on the various notions of Europe that are used by radical right MEPs. We find evidence of three visions of Europe: as a civilization; as an ethno-religious community; and as a liberal society. The use and preferences for each visions vary according to ideological positions, strategies and national contexts.

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Section: A Shared European Nation – or A Europe Of Nations?mentioning

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Being European, the nationalist way: Europe in the discourse of radical right parties

Beaudonnet

Hoyo

2023

Party Politics

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“…21 It seems to be an important part of the historiography of both Europeanism and Europeanness that wars and catastrophes that in fact divided the geographical region are used as seminal unifying factors. 22 In much historiography, violence, war and atrocities characterize European history. They are what constitute the common experience of Europeanness.…”

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The Un-European Idea: Vichy and Eurafrica in the Historiography of Europeanism

Nordblad

2014

The European Legacy

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Imperialist and collaborationist conceptions of Europeanisms have generally been excluded from mainstream historiography with reference to their alleged un-Europeanness. However, by discussing the ideas and writings of two French Europeanists-Louis Le Fur's and Rene´Viard's-in the years 1940-41, I argue that it is precisely their Vichyite and imperialist conceptions of Europeanness that underpin their political ideas of a united Europe. Their works therefore call into question a prevailing historiographical narrative of Europeanism as a benign counterpoint to a dark European past. Since, as demonstrated in this article, French Europeanist visions have often been bound up with both collaborationist and imperialist interests, I argue for the need to develop a more inclusive and critical historiographical perspective on the history of Europeanism.

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“…European support for events like the European City of Culture, in many respects, was about the particular way Europeanists (European nationalists) were seeking to strengthen support for the EC. Ariana D'Appollonia is not alone in suggesting that “The latest variation of pro‐European nationalism is the attempt to bypass the nation‐state from the bottom, that is to say, from the regions” (D'Appollonia, 2002, p. 186). The festival was, by and large, an attempt “from the top” to circumvent the dominance of the European nation‐state by “bringing” the European Community to the “people.” Chris Shore has demonstrated how projects like the European City of Culture were designed to give legitimacy to the EC and create a wider feeling of supranationality by promoting the power and relevancy of the EC (Shore, 2000, p. 51).…”

Section: Europe's Festivalmentioning

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Scales, Regimes, and the Urban Governance of Glasgow

Tretter

2008

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Over the last two decades, urban regime theory has become one of the most dominant paradigms of thought in urban studies. In particular, regime theory offers a complex account of urban governance, or how local governments, the business communities, and community organizations gain the capacity to shape the policies that affect cities, that is, govern. Although regime theory is a dominant theory in urban studies, it does, nevertheless, have its share of detractors, and one criticism has been its failure to take into account geographical scale. While there is an acknowledgment in urban regime theory of wider economic processes, such as the broad transformations in international and national trade, investment, finance, etc., or the role played by federal or state governments, the bias has remained mostly local, particularly in regards to urban governance. In urban regime theory literature the policies and actions of international and national institutions either nicely conjoin with local interests or are nearly totally absent. Due to this oversight, urban regime theory tends to underemphasize how the capacity to govern a city effectively is sometimes the result of the interaction of actions of people at multiple scales. This article attempts to address this oversight in an analysis of Glasgow, Scotland, during the 1980s. By focusing on the role of the European City of Culture in the revitalization of the city, this article demonstrates how the capacity for a ruling coalition to transform the city and to govern effectively was the consequence of the policy and administrative actions undertaken at other geographical scales.

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European Nationalism and European Union

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Being European, the nationalist way: Europe in the discourse of radical right parties

Being European, the nationalist way: Europe in the discourse of radical right parties

The Un-European Idea: Vichy and Eurafrica in the Historiography of Europeanism

Scales, Regimes, and the Urban Governance of Glasgow

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