Negotiating Unity and Diversity in the European Union

Negotiating Unity and Diversity in the European Union

 
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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ISBN13:9783030550158
ISBN10:303055015X
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:233 pages
Size:210x148 mm
Weight:454 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 1 Illustrations, black & white; 1 Illustrations, color
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Short description:

This book explores how the European Union has been responding to the challenge of diversity. In doing so, it considers the EU as a complex polity that has found novel ways for accommodating diversity. Much of the literature on the EU seeks to identify it as a unique case of cooperation between states that moves past classic international cooperation. This volume argues that in order to understand the EU?s effort in managing the diversity among its members and citizens it is more effective to look at the EU as a state. While acknowledging that the EU lacks key aspects of statehood, the authors show that looking at the EU efforts to balance diversity and unity through the lens of state policy is a fruitful way to understand the Union. Instead of conceptualising the EU as being incomparable and unique which is neither an international organisation nor a state, the book argues that EU can be understood as a polity that shares many approaches and strategies with complex and diverse states. As such, its effort to build political structures to accommodate diversity offers lessons to other such polities. The experience of the EU contributes to the understanding of how states and other polities can respond to challenges of diversity, including both the diversity of constituent units or of sub-national groups and identities.



Florian Bieber is Professor for Southeast European History and Politics at the University of Graz, Austria.



Roland Bieber is Professor Emeritus of European Law at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Long description:
This book explores how the European Union has been responding to the challenge of diversity. In doing so, it considers the EU as a complex polity that has found novel ways for accommodating diversity. Much of the literature on the EU seeks to identify it as a unique case of cooperation between states that moves past classic international cooperation. This volume argues that in order to understand the EU?s effort in managing the diversity among its members and citizens it is more effective to look at the EU as a state. While acknowledging that the EU lacks key aspects of statehood, the authors show that looking at the EU efforts to balance diversity and unity through the lens of state policy is a fruitful way to understand the Union. Instead of conceptualising the EU as being incomparable and unique which is neither an international organisation nor a state, the book argues that EU can be understood as a polity that shares many approaches and strategies with complex and diverse states. As such, its effort to build political structures to accommodate diversity offers lessons to other such polities. The experience of the EU contributes to the understanding of how states and other polities can respond to challenges of diversity, including both the diversity of constituent units or of sub-national groups and identities.

Table of Contents:

1.           Introduction



2.           Regimes of Diversity



3.           Diversity in the European Union



4.           Approaches to Diversity in the EU          



5.           Unity and Diversity through EU Institutions and Procedures



6.           ?Europe? as a Symbol ? Symbols of Europe



7.           Exclusion and Belonging: The Ambiguities of European citizenship



8.           The Gradual Emergence of European Minority Rights



9.           Conclusions



Epilogue