Memory and the Future of Europe: Rupture and Integration in the Wake of Total War (Manchester University Press) - Hardcover

Verovšek, Peter J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1526143100 ISBN 13: 9781526143105

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2020

Synopsis

The establishment of the European Union was the most significant development in twentieth-century political organisation. Despite the EU’s achievements, events at the beginning of the twenty-first century pose an existential threat. Memory and the future of Europe treats integration as a response to the rupture created by the age of total war. As the generations with personal memories of the two world wars have passed away, economic gain has increasingly become the EU’s sole raison d’être. If the Union is to survive, it will have to create a new historical imaginary that builds on the experiences of those who have grown up in a unified Europe and on the EU’s ability to protect its citizens from the forces of globalisation.

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Peter J. Verovšek is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield -- .

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The establishment of the European Union was the most significant development in twentieth-century political organisation. Despite the EU's achievements, events at the beginning of the twenty-first century pose an existential threat. Memory and the future of Europe treats integration as a response to the rupture created by the age of total war. As the generations with personal memories of the two world wars have passed away, economic gain has increasingly become the EU's sole raison d'être. If the Union is to survive, it will have to create a new historical imaginary that builds on the experiences of those who have grown up in a unified Europe and on the EU's ability to protect its citizens from the forces of globalisation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1526143100
• ISBN 13: 9781526143105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240