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The Poverty of EU Centrism

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Die Europäische Union im 21. Jahrhundert

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Is European Studies about studying Europe or about studying the European Union? In many textbooks this simple question about demarcating the main subject of interest is omitted: EU and Europe are treated as synonyms. It is like equalling America with the USA, neglecting people in Canada, Central and South America. Likewise EU-centrism does no justice to people in many sovereign entities in geographical Europe, ranging from Monaco to the Russian Federation and from Turkey to Greenland.

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    Jaap H. de Wilde (Professor for European Security Studies, Free University Amsterdam, Senior Research Fellow)

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de Wilde, J.H. (2007). The Poverty of EU Centrism. In: Ehrhart, HG., Jaberg, S., Rinke, B., Waldmann, J. (eds) Die Europäische Union im 21. Jahrhundert. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-90576-1_4

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