Thomas Risse is Professor of International Politics, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. He is coeditor of The End of the West? Conflict and Change in the Atlantic Order, also from Cornell, and author of books including Cooperation among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy.

"A Community of Europeans? is a pathbreaking contribution that brings together the main strands of theoretical and policy debate since the EU's current identity crisis began in the early 1990s and evaluates them against the best and most up-to-date empirical data. Thomas Risse has been a leading voice in these debates since their inception."

• Introduction: The Europeanization of Identities and Public SpheresPart I. An Emerging European Identity?1. Collective Identities: Conceptual and Methodological Questions2. Multiple Europes: The Europeanization of Citizens' Identities3. Modern Europe and Its Discontents: The Europeanization of Elite Identities4. Europeanization of National Identities: ExplanationsPart II: An Emerging European Public Sphere?5. Transnational Public Spheres: Conceptual Questions6. The Gradual Europeanization of Public Spheres7. A European Community of Communication?Part III: Consequences8. "Deepening": European Institution-Building9. "Widening": EU Enlargement and Contested Identities10. European Democracy and PoliticizationConclusions: Defending Modern EuropeReferencesIndex

Thomas Risse is Professor of International Politics, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. He is coeditor of The End of the West? Conflict and Change in the Atlantic Order, also from Cornell, and author of books including Cooperation among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy.

"A Community of Europeans? is a pathbreaking contribution that brings together the main strands of theoretical and policy debate since the EU's current identity crisis began in the early 1990s and evaluates them against the best and most up-to-date empirical data. Thomas Risse has been a leading voice in these debates since their inception."

• Introduction: The Europeanization of Identities and Public SpheresPart I. An Emerging European Identity?1. Collective Identities: Conceptual and Methodological Questions2. Multiple Europes: The Europeanization of Citizens' Identities3. Modern Europe and Its Discontents: The Europeanization of Elite Identities4. Europeanization of National Identities: ExplanationsPart II: An Emerging European Public Sphere?5. Transnational Public Spheres: Conceptual Questions6. The Gradual Europeanization of Public Spheres7. A European Community of Communication?Part III: Consequences8. "Deepening": European Institution-Building9. "Widening": EU Enlargement and Contested Identities10. European Democracy and PoliticizationConclusions: Defending Modern EuropeReferencesIndex

Thomas Risse is Professor of International Politics, Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin. He is coeditor of The End of the West? Conflict and Change in the Atlantic Order, also from Cornell, and author of books including Cooperation among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy.

"A Community of Europeans? is a pathbreaking contribution that brings together the main strands of theoretical and policy debate since the EU's current identity crisis began in the early 1990s and evaluates them against the best and most up-to-date empirical data. Thomas Risse has been a leading voice in these debates since their inception."

• Introduction: The Europeanization of Identities and Public SpheresPart I. An Emerging European Identity?1. Collective Identities: Conceptual and Methodological Questions2. Multiple Europes: The Europeanization of Citizens' Identities3. Modern Europe and Its Discontents: The Europeanization of Elite Identities4. Europeanization of National Identities: ExplanationsPart II: An Emerging European Public Sphere?5. Transnational Public Spheres: Conceptual Questions6. The Gradual Europeanization of Public Spheres7. A European Community of Communication?Part III: Consequences8. "Deepening": European Institution-Building9. "Widening": EU Enlargement and Contested Identities10. European Democracy and PoliticizationConclusions: Defending Modern EuropeReferencesIndex