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The European Union's Transactional Identity : = An Ideational Elite-Driven Model.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The European Union's Transactional Identity :/
Reminder of title:	An Ideational Elite-Driven Model.
Author:	Ostojski, Jennifer.
Description:	1 online resource (322 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-03, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-03A.
Subject:	European studies. -
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ISBN:	9798845714497

The European Union's Transactional Identity : = An Ideational Elite-Driven Model.
Ostojski, Jennifer.

The European Union's Transactional Identity :An Ideational Elite-Driven Model. - 1 online resource (322 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-03, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northeastern University, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

The current scholarship on European Identity holds that the European people do not all feel "European," which is to say that they do not all feel a sense of belonging with regards to the European Union. The underlying assumption is that there is a "correct" way to feel European, and that those people who do not feel "European" simply have not engaged with the European Union enough to reach that correct level of belonging. I find this assumption unsatisfying due to the inherent constructed nature of any identity. Arguing that European people have not reached an identity benchmark assumes a "taken-for-granted" framework of European identity, and it disregards the origin and evolution of the European identity. My dissertation instead brings to the forefront lessons learned from nationalism scholarship, arguing that all identities are constructed and based on sets of ideas. Identities in any political entity are thus driven by human agency, rather than developing through happenstance. Examining identity construction at the state, quasi-state, or federal level, historically we find that this process is a largely elite-driven endeavor. This holds true at the European Union level as well, but it has been, nonetheless, largely left unstudied in the field of European identity scholarship. The European founding fathers are largely presumed to hold "pro-European" stances without inquiring as to what a pro-European stance actually entails. I argue that since the European Union's earliest inception, namely the European Coal and Steel Community, Europe's elite leaders have held clear ideas about the European community, its purpose, and its identity, creating an identity zeitgeist debate that has ultimately advanced over time a clear transactional identity for the European people. This transactional identity has created a shallow and benefit-dependent relationship between the European people and the European Union institution, a relationship requiring constant improvements, and handholding throughout4crises and conflict. To illustrate the power of elite ideas and their trajectory over time, I have outlined three phases: The Phase of Neglect (1950-1973); the Phase of Limited Effort (1973-2005); and the Phase of Concerted Effort (2005-2020). In each of these phases, I focus on a key set of European leaders and their ideas about the European identity. I focus particularly on European Union-centric leadership positions, such as the High Authority, the European Commissioner, and the European Parliament President, to demonstrate their second-dimension agenda-setting power in this ideational debate. Through the tracing of their ideas, I illustrate debates in the creation of European treaties' preambles and articles as well as the formation of the House of European History. I demonstrate how transactional identity-making has evolved in terms of its active-sites over time, while simultaneously showing that transactional identity tenets prevail over and over again. My research reassesses ongoing debates in European identity scholarship by providing an origin-focused, constructivist approach to the making of the European Union's identity. Additionally, I provide renewed perspectives on understanding crises in the European Union and their corresponding responses from the European people, outlining the possibilities and limitations of further European Union integration.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798845714497Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168420
European studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Elite leadersIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

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