Eu’s post-national stake. nationalism vs. multiculturalism

• Authors: Anda Brăilean
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

How to reconcile a European identity that is still quite indefinite with the national identities that have been engines of development, but failed to resolve the issue of ensuring peace and eliminating war as a way of settling differences? Solving the problem of European identity vs. national state identity is the cornerstone for the development of new European institutional architecture. The more the future vision of Europe promotes a deeper integration of the current European nation states, the greater is the fear of the latter to the “danger” of losing its identity. What is, in fact, this identity and would be its disappearance a great disaster? How can be lost the national identity and how it could be replaced by a European identity? Here are just some troubling questions that Europeans today consciences.

Keywords

EN

multiculturalism; European; nation-state; culture; stability; security; diversity; identity; globalization

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 51-64

Dates

published

2012-10-01

online

2012-11-09

Contributors

author

Anda Brăilean

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10317-012-0004-3