Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- GOVERNMENT -- THE LEGACY OF EMPIRE -- WAR AND COMMERCE -- A MODERN EUROPEAN IDENTITY -- AGENCIES OF IDENTITY -- 1 Europe: Conceptualizing a Continent -- 2 Some Europes in Their History -- THE GEOGRAPHICAL CONCEPT OF "EUROPE" -- THE ENLIGHTENED NARRATIVE -- ANOTHER "EUROPE" IN HISTORY -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE -- 3 "Europe" in the Middle Ages -- EUROPE -- POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS -- THE ECONOMY -- THE ECCLESIASTICAL WORLD -- CONCLUSION -- 4 The Republican Mirror: The Dutch Idea of Europe -- THE RISE OF DUTCH REPUBLICANISM -- THE FAILURES OF HUMANIST, ARISTOCRATIC REPUBLICANISM, 1609-29 -- THE MORAL CONTAINMENT OF REASON OF STATE -- THE CULMINATION OF THE REPUBLICAN DEBATE -- EUROPEAN REPUBLICANISM AND THE REPUBLICAN IDEA OF EUROPE -- 5 The Napoleonic Empire and the Europe of Nations -- THE ENLIGHTENMENT VIEW -- REVOLUTION AND CONQUEST -- THE OPPOSITION TO NAPOLEON -- FROM PARIS TO VIENNA -- 6 Homo Politicus and Homo Oeconomicus: The European Citizen According to Max Weber -- OCCIDENT VERSUS ORIENT -- MIDDLE AGES VERSUS ANTIQUITY -- CONCLUSION -- 7 The European Self: Rethinking an Attitude -- THE MENTALITY TRAP -- A VIEW FROM THE MARGINS -- CONTESTING THE CLAIMS OF RATIONALISM -- THE EVERYDAY USE OF "NATIONAL CHARACTER" -- THE GREEK ATOMIST INDIVIDUALIST: A PARADIGMATIC CASE -- PREDICAMENTS OF THE PICTURESQUE: VARIEGATIONS OF A EUROPEAN SELFHOOD -- FROM ARTISANAL MODELS TO MODEL SELVES: TOWARD THE HISTORY OF AN IDEA -- 8 European Nationalism and European Union -- FROM EUROPEAN COSMOPOLITANISM TO ANTINATIONAL EUROPEAN NATIONALISM -- FROM EUROPEAN COSMOPOLITANISM TO PRO-NATIONAL EUROPEAN NATIONALISM -- THE PREDICAMENT OF EUROPEAN NATIONALISM TODAY -- 9 From the Ironies of Identity to the Identities of Irony.

THE IDEA OF EUROPE AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY -- EUROPE AND ITS OTHERS -- BEING EUROPEAN -- 10 Muslims and European Identity: Can Europe Represent Islam? -- MUSLIMS AND THE IDEA OF EUROPE -- ISLAM AND THE NARRATIVE OF EUROPE -- THE SHIFTING BORDERS OF MODERN EUROPE -- EUROPEAN LIBERAL DEMOCRACY AND MINORITY REPRESENTATION -- 11 The Long Road to Unity: The Contribution of Law to the Process of European Integration since 1945 -- FROM THE TREATY OF PARIS TO THE TREATY OF AMSTERDAM: THE UNIFICATION OF EUROPE THROUGH THE EC TREATIES -- The First Phase, 1945-1955 -- The Second Phase, 1955-1968 -- The Third Phase, 1965-1987 -- The Fourth Phase: The Single European Act of 1987 -- The Fifth Phase: The Maastricht Treaty on European Union of 1992 and the Treaty of Amsterdam of 1997 -- Conclusion -- THE DYNAMIC ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY INSTITUTIONS -- The Doctrine of Exclusive Community Competence -- Private Enforcement of the Treaties against Member States -- 12 The Euro, Economic Federalism, and the Question of National Sovereignty -- WHY THE EMU? -- THE EMU AND THE RENUNCIATION OF SOVEREIGNTY -- THE EMU AND THE THEORY OF IMPULSE IMBALANCE -- THE STRATEGY OF COMPETITIVE DEFLATION INSCRIBED IN THE STONE OF INSTITUTIONS -- THE EMU: A STRATEGY FOR WINNING MONETARY INFLUENCE -- THE CENTRAL BANKS AGAINST THE MARKETS -- EUROPE AFTER THE EURO -- 13 Identity Politics and European Integration: The Case of Germany -- WHAT IS "NATION-STATE IDENTITY" AND WHAT CAN IT EXPLAIN? -- GERMANY AND THE EVOLUTION OF A EUROPEAN NATION-STATE IDENTITY -- Konrad Adenauer's Vision of Germany in Europe -- Lack of Consensus among German Elites -- A Federalist Consensus Emerges -- German Unification: Continuity Rather than Change -- GERMAN EUROPEANNESS AND THE SINGLE CURRENCY: BETWEEN THE EURO AND THE DEUTSCHE MARK -- CONCLUSIONS -- 14 Nationalisms in Spain: The Organization of Convivencia.

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SPANISH NATIONAL STATE AND THE HORIZON OF THE EUROPEAN UNION -- PLURALISM IN THE IDEA OF THE NATION AND ITS APPLICATION TO SPAIN -- CONCLUSION: OVERCOMING DIFFICULTIES -- 15 The Kantian Idea of Europe: Critical and Cosmopolitan Perspectives -- THE KANTIAN IDEA OF EUROPE AND THE WORLD -- A CRITICAL ENLIGHTENMENT ATTITUDE TOWARD THE KANTIAN IDEA OF EUROPE -- RETHINKING CULTURES -- RETHINKING CONSTITUTIONS AND FEDERATIONS -- FROM MONOLOGUE TO COSMOPOLITAN MULTILOGUE -- CONCLUSION -- Contributors -- Index.