Re:Thinking Europe
Thoughts on Europe: Past, Present and Future
Published on 13. June 2016
318 pages
978-90-485-3308-4 (ISBN)
Description
A host of prominent and influential thinkers such as political scientist Ivan Krastev and historians Philipp Blom and Adam Zamoyski have been invited to write essays. Their thoughts are assembled in the anthology Re:Thinking Europe.
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Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
File size
0,95 MB
ISBN-13
978-90-485-3308-4 (9789048533084)
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Persons
Albrecht Yoeri :
Yoeri Albrecht is the director of De Balie in Amsterdam. He is also the president of Vereniging Veronica, owner of (among others) the Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau and co-initiator of the "European Press Prize".Segers Mathieu :
Mathieu Segers (1976) is Professor of Contemporary European History and European Integration at Maastricht University.
Yoeri Albrecht is the director of De Balie in Amsterdam. He is also the president of Vereniging Veronica, owner of (among others) the Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau and co-initiator of the "European Press Prize".Segers Mathieu :
Mathieu Segers (1976) is Professor of Contemporary European History and European Integration at Maastricht University.
Content
Preface: Re-creating Europe - Yori Albrecht Introduction - Mathieu Segers European Unity and its Vicissitudes (1959) - Isaiah Berlin CONTEMPORARY ESSAYS Homogeneity and Diversity - Tom Holland On the Identity of the West - Larry Siedentop The Cowardly Lion in Quest of Peace - Stella Ghervas Afterglow of a Dead World - Benno Barnard Anatomy of Resentment - Ivan Krastev Thinking Europe -- No Future? - Philip Blom My EUtopia: Empathy in a Union of Others - Kalypso Nicolaidis Culture and the EU's Struggle for Legitimacy - Claudia Sternberg HISTORICAL TEXTS Thoughts on the Future (1943) - Jean Monnet Extracts from a speech in the Main Auditorium of Cologne University (1946) - Konrad Adenauer Extracts from a press conference (1960) - Charles de Gaulle The Tragedy of Central Europe (1984) - Milan Kundera The Bruges Speech (1988) - Margaret Thatcher Extracts from a speech in the European Parliament (1994) - Vaclav Havel Extracts from a speech in the European Parliament (1995) - Francois Mitterrand The Special Quality of Europe is Culture (2001) - Gyoergy Konrad The Europe of Melancholy (2006) - Tomasso Padoa-Schioppa New Alliances and Recomposition Logic (2008) - Edouard Balladur Remarks to the Turkish Parliament (2009) - Barack Obama Germany in and with and for Europe (2011) - Helmut Schmidt BIOGRAPHIES
