Constructing Europe's Identity

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Constructing Europe's Identity is written by Lars-Erik Cederman and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1555878725 (ISBN 10) and 9781555878726 (ISBN 13).

The authors assess not only the benefits, but also the costs of attempts to assert a European identity. Referring to debates about the respective merits of deepening and widening, they address the equally important associated tradeoffs between exclusion and dilution: they point to the risks on the one hand of a Europe that excludes foreign goods, immigrants and entire countries, and on the other of an unfocused definition of Europe that may dilute the very values that a "European identity" is intended to protect.