SPIRe\u2019s week ten seminar will feature SPIRe\u2019s Dr. Paul Gillespie\u00a0 presenting on his research \u201cCrisis as choice: Comparing Typologies of Political Identity in the European Union\u201d from 12:00-13:00 Wednesday, April 10th\u00a0 in G316 Newman Building, UCD Belfield.\u00a0 All are welcome.<\/p>\n
ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n How can a more politicised European Union combine the nation-states which are its members with the supranational structures and institutions required to hold such an emerging polity together legitimately? There is a widespread feeling that new approaches are needed and a new vocabulary to express them, straddling scholarly writing, political discourse and popular engagement as the financial and eurozone crises force political choices on all concerned, as events and political discourse daily confirm. The issue of the EU\u2019s future political order is now formally inscribed in its political agenda by the Van Rompuy Report of 2012.<\/p>\n The phrase \u201cmultiple political identities\u201d crops up in the theoretical and\u00a0\u00a0 empirical literatures on post-national democracy, comparative federalism, cosmopolitan democracy, multiculturalism, neo-medievalism and European constitutionalism, straddling political science, sociology, international relations, social psychology and anthropology. But more theorising of the subject is needed to clarify its difficulties and understand whether and how national and European identifications combine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SPIRe\u2019s week ten seminar will feature SPIRe\u2019s Dr. Paul Gillespie\u00a0 presenting on his research \u201cCrisis as choice: Comparing Typologies of Political Identity in the European Union\u201d from 12:00-13:00 Wednesday, April 10th\u00a0 in G316 Newman Building, UCD Belfield.\u00a0 All are welcome. … Continue reading