Framing Europe: Attitudes to European Integration in Germany, Spain, and the United KingdomPrinceton University Press, 2003 - 332 páginas This book provides a major empirical analysis of differing attitudes to European integration in three of Europe's most important countries: Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom. From its beginnings, the European Union has resounded with debate over whether to move toward a federal or intergovernmental system. However, Juan Díez Medrano argues that empirical analyses of support for integration--by specialists in international relations, comparative politics, and survey research--have failed to explain why some countries lean toward federalism whereas others lean toward intergovernmentalism. By applying frame analysis to a unique set of primary sources (in-depth interviews, newspaper articles, novels, history texts, political speeches, and survey data), Díez Medrano demonstrates the role of major historical events in transforming national cultures and thus creating new opportunities for political transformation. Clearly written and rigorously argued, Framing Europe explains differences in support for European integration between the three countries studied in light of the degree to which each realized its particular "supranational project" outside Western Europe. Only the United Kingdom succeeded in consolidating an empire and retaining it after World War II, while Germany and Spain each abandoned their corresponding aspirations. These differences meant that these countries' populations developed different degrees of identification as Europeans and, partly in consequence, different degrees of support for the building of a federal Europe. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
FRAMES ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND THE EUROPEAN UNION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM GERMANY AND SPAIN | 19 |
Ways of Seeing European Integration | 21 |
Good Reasons for Attitudes toward European Integration | 65 |
Journalists and European Integration | 106 |
NATIONAL CULTURES AND FRAMES ON EUROPEAN INTEGRATION | 157 |
Spain Europe as a Mirror with Two Reflections | 159 |
West Germany Between SelfDoubt | 179 |
East Germany A Different Past a Different Memory | 200 |
The United Kingdom Reluctant Europeans | 214 |
Frames and Attitudes toward European Integration A Statistical Validation | 236 |
Conclusions | 249 |
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