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European Integration and Security: Analysing French and German Discourses on State, Nation, and Europe

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An analysis of domestic discourses regarding ‘we’concepts, like state, nation, and Europe in the major European states can explain and, up to a point, predict developments in their over-all policies on security and Europe. Therefore, it explains big patterns (but not details) in European integration.

[Security] is not a mechanical problem … [A]n exact balance is impossible … because while powers may appear to outsiders as factors in a security arrangement, they appear domestically as expressions of a historical existence. No power will submit to a settlement, however well-balanced and however ‘secure’, which seems totally to deny its vision of itself.

(Henry A. Kissinger, 1957, p. 146)

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Wcever, O. (2005). European Integration and Security: Analysing French and German Discourses on State, Nation, and Europe. In: Howarth, D., Torfing, J. (eds) Discourse Theory in European Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523364_2

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