International studies, Vol. V No. 4, 2005.
Original scientific paper
The Political Identity of Europe: What Is It About?
Radule Knežević
; Publishing-Research Institution "Politička Kultura in Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Political identity is a topic without precise and unique identity. That is the reason why our discussion starts by looking into recent discussions covering identity and its strategies. It is being continued with the efforts to define and to develop the concept of political identity and its differing from the social and cultural-historical identity. The main problem is to define the dimension of political identity of Europe, considering its political body, EU, as a metanational identity. At the end, the anatomy of the European political identity is being questioned: identity function, possibilities, structure, normative content of political identity, etc ...
Keywords
identity; identity strategies; political identity; social and cultural-historical identity; national identity; metanational identities; European Union
Hrčak ID:
290362
URI
Publication date:
31.12.2005.
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