EUROPEANISATION
The term Europeanization has different meanings and connotations. Talking outside the ambit of social sciences, Europeanization refers to the growth of a European Continental Identity or polity over and above national identities and polities on the continent. Europeanization also refers to the process through which the European Union political and economic dynamics become part of the organizational logic of national politics and policy making.
There is also another definition of Europeanization which is more popular in political science. The definition says Europeanization means “becoming more European like” i.e. the process in which a notionally non-European subject (be it a culture, a language, a city or nation) adopts a …show more content…
Europeanization remains a new theoretical interest which has produced more questions than answers. It is considered a dynamic process unfolding over time. It included both the domestic and EU level of policy making and stresses on the inter-dependence between the two. Olsen presents another perspective saying Europeanization involves changes taking place in member states and then goes on to further outline the process of institutional change that may identify how or why it takes place. The difference between Europeanization and European Integration in the light of neo-functionalism shall be explained in detail …show more content…
But, there were still minority of the Europeans who believed that Europe’s capacity to react to war depended on its ability to overcome the aggressive nationalisms that had dragged their continent to the catastrophe and to adopt the ideal of a united and peaceful Europe as a common project.
With this blurred idea in mind and way too optimistic about the idea of Europe as one, the Austrian Count Coudenhove Kalergi, in 1923, founded the Pan-European Movement. He was the first one to conceive of a union of European nations and also wrote the Pan-Europa manifesto in 1923. In 1926, he managed to bring together diverse political figures in the First European Congress held in Vienna. In his manifesto, he has beautifully said:
“Europe as a political concept does not exist. This part of the world includes nations and states installed in the chaos, in a barrel of gunpowder of International Conflicts, in a field of future conflicts. This is the European Question: the mutual hate of the Europeans that poisons the atmosphere…. The European Question can only be solved by means of the union of Europe’s nations…The biggest to the accomplishment of the United States of Europe is the one thousand years old rivalry between the two most populated nations of pan-Europe: Germany and
The term Europeanization has different meanings and connotations. Talking outside the ambit of social sciences, Europeanization refers to the growth of a European Continental Identity or polity over and above national identities and polities on the continent. Europeanization also refers to the process through which the European Union political and economic dynamics become part of the organizational logic of national politics and policy making.
There is also another definition of Europeanization which is more popular in political science. The definition says Europeanization means “becoming more European like” i.e. the process in which a notionally non-European subject (be it a culture, a language, a city or nation) adopts a …show more content…
Europeanization remains a new theoretical interest which has produced more questions than answers. It is considered a dynamic process unfolding over time. It included both the domestic and EU level of policy making and stresses on the inter-dependence between the two. Olsen presents another perspective saying Europeanization involves changes taking place in member states and then goes on to further outline the process of institutional change that may identify how or why it takes place. The difference between Europeanization and European Integration in the light of neo-functionalism shall be explained in detail …show more content…
But, there were still minority of the Europeans who believed that Europe’s capacity to react to war depended on its ability to overcome the aggressive nationalisms that had dragged their continent to the catastrophe and to adopt the ideal of a united and peaceful Europe as a common project.
With this blurred idea in mind and way too optimistic about the idea of Europe as one, the Austrian Count Coudenhove Kalergi, in 1923, founded the Pan-European Movement. He was the first one to conceive of a union of European nations and also wrote the Pan-Europa manifesto in 1923. In 1926, he managed to bring together diverse political figures in the First European Congress held in Vienna. In his manifesto, he has beautifully said:
“Europe as a political concept does not exist. This part of the world includes nations and states installed in the chaos, in a barrel of gunpowder of International Conflicts, in a field of future conflicts. This is the European Question: the mutual hate of the Europeans that poisons the atmosphere…. The European Question can only be solved by means of the union of Europe’s nations…The biggest to the accomplishment of the United States of Europe is the one thousand years old rivalry between the two most populated nations of pan-Europe: Germany and