The Political History of European Integration

Schulz-Forberg, Hagen; Stråth, Bo

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“…This European Enlightenment-founded republic of letters could also be called the soft public sphere. 85 This kind of public sphere educates citizens to work in the realm of the political public sphere. Cultural forms can play a central role in supporting people in their role as citizens.…”

Section: Conclusion: Towards a Transnational Europe From The Peripherymentioning

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Towards the European transnational public sphere: Finnish liberal intellectuals and their periodicals between nationalism and internationalism under russification

Kortti

2020

Scandinavian Journal of History

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An important era for the European Enlightenment-founded 'republic of letters' was the cultural internationalism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The fin de siècle was also significant in forming the concepts of both the European intellectual and the European public sphere. The starting point of my article is the Finnish liberal cultural intellectuals during this period. In their activities in Europe, these Finnish intellectuals operated in the context of Russification, and that left a national mark. On the other hand, Scandinavia was the first frame of reference for literary-oriented Finnish liberal intellectuals. Through empirical examples from the cultural periodicals they edited, I discuss how periphery intellectuals joined the European republic of letters and how transnationalism in exchanging ideas and sharing universal ideals was realized. The outcome of the article is that although transnationalism in history studies provides a fruitful way to approach the era in question, often nationalism play a significant role in the transnational activities of intellectuals in small nations. Besides the political situation of a young small nation in turmoil, the close relationship between the State and 'intellectual labour' makes the Finnish case interesting in terms of transnational history.

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Section: Conclusion: Towards a Transnational Europe From The Peripherymentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards the European transnational public sphere: Finnish liberal intellectuals and their periodicals between nationalism and internationalism under russification

Kortti

2020

Scandinavian Journal of History

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“…Communitarian positions on FOM can also be protective towards labour standards, general social cohesion and national identity. While the liberal utilitarian and cosmopolitan stance on FOM considers worker mobility in the EU as a tool for matching labour market needs or as an opportunity for individual social mobility (Bruzelius et al, 2017; Favell, 2014), the communitarian stance focuses on local labour conditions and how heightened competition brought on by migrant workers can threaten local labour standards and wages (Schulz-Forberg and Stråth, 2010; Walzer, 1983: 56). In this regard, open borders for labour in Europe can also be seen as part of a neoliberal agenda that aims to keep production costs as low as possible by increasing the pressure on wages and standards (Castles, 2011: 312).…”

Section: Normative Perspectives On Fom: Cosmopolitanism Utilitarianimentioning

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The conditionality of EU freedom of movement: Normative change in the discourse of EU institutions

Roos

Westerveen

2019

Journal of European Social Policy

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Freedom of movement (FOM) in the European Union (EU) has become a highly salient issue in political and public debates. Most of the literature on FOM is heavily focused on the judiciary interpretation of this EU right, or on conflicting attitudes towards FOM within the national arena. However, the EU and its institutions as political actors that define and shape the content and meaning of FOM are largely absent from this literature. If mentioned, EU actors are often depicted as ideological and orthodox defenders of FOM. We argue that this perspective is empirically inaccurate, which leads to skewed theoretical assumptions. It not only overlooks an EU-level discourse on FOM that has changed significantly in recent years but also fails to acknowledge that even fundamental rights and key pillars of EU integration can be subject to discursive change at the EU level. A frame analysis of documents from the European Commission, the European Council, the Council of the EU and the European Parliament from 2004 to 2016 forms the basis of our argument. During this period, restrictionist arguments have increasingly entered EU actors’ discourse on FOM. Viewed almost as an absolute right of EU citizens during the 2000s, FOM during the 2010s has been framed in terms of the conditions underlying the exercise of this right. We conclude that EU actors are engaged in a political debate over what FOM means and that their discourse has shifted to support an increased conditionality of FOM.

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“…Each of these values, however, raises serious questions. The view of the EC/EU as a harbinger of democracy, for example, clashes with the nature of the European Communities, which were created as technocratic policy bodies with the hardly hidden purpose of avoiding democratic control – hence the difficulty of generating legitimation and of introducing a representative system in the 1990s 71 …”

Section: Building a Post-colonial Identity: Difficult Transitionsmentioning

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The EC/EU between the Art of Forgetting and the Palimpsest of Empire

Pasture

2018

European Review

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The history of European integration is usually presented as both a peace project and an economic endeavour. What is largely ignored is that it also had a colonial dimension. This article first recalls this largely forgotten history, asking why and how it could be erased from memory. It then explores ways in which the EU and its predecessors constituted a new postcolonial identity and how colonial legacies somehow reappear in policies and representations.

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The Political History of European Integration

Cited by 13 publications

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Towards the European transnational public sphere: Finnish liberal intellectuals and their periodicals between nationalism and internationalism under russification

Towards the European transnational public sphere: Finnish liberal intellectuals and their periodicals between nationalism and internationalism under russification

The conditionality of EU freedom of movement: Normative change in the discourse of EU institutions

The EC/EU between the Art of Forgetting and the Palimpsest of Empire

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