The Euro Crisis, European Identities, and
Comparative Regionalism
Transgressing Disciplinary Boundaries
Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel und Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse
Solidarity in (Euro-) Crisis?
T Risse
Thomas
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Conceptualizing Collective Identities
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Collectively shared social constructions linking individuals to
social groups
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Multiple identities / Europeanization of collective identities:
cross-cutting, nested (Russian doll), blended (marble cake)
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Content: sense of common purpose; „in-group/out-group“
distinction
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Contestation and strength
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„imagined communities“ and the problem of „psychological
existence“
Thomas Risse
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Dual Identities: 1992 – 2010
Thomas Risse
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European Identities 2010
Thomas Risse
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Solidarity among
Strangers:
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3.
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Increase during euro
crisis
Denmark (71%),
Sweden (67%),
Netherlands (60%)
Germany (54% –
44%)
Southern Europe at
about average!
UK (45% - 50%)
Eastern Europe
below average!
Thomas Risse
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The End of Transformative Power Europe?
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Normative, civilian, transformative, or no power?
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Europeanization, governance transfer, diffusion
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Regional power vs. the power of regions
Tanja A. Börzel
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Tanja A. Börzel
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The End of Transformative Power Europe?
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Normative, civilian, transformative, or no power?
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Europeanization, governance transfer, diffusion
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Regional power vs. the power of regions
Tanja A. Börzel
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Figure 1: Diffusion Mechanisms Following Direct Influence Model
Social mechanism and underlying theory of
Promoter of Ideas (Sender)
social action
Coercion
(force or legal imposition)
Manipulating utility calculations
(instrumental rationality)
Socialization
(normative rationality)
Persuasion
(communicative rationality)
coercive authority (Herrschaft),
legal force
(positive and negative) incentives and capacitybuilding
promote ideas through providing an authoritative model (normative pressure)
promote ideas as legitimate or true through
reason-giving
Tanja A. Börzel
Figure 2: Emulation: Indirect Mechanisms of Diffusion
Underlying theory of social action
Instrumental rationality
Mechanism
Competition (functional emulation)
Lesson drawing (functional emulation)
Normative rationality
Mimicry (normative emulation)
Tanja A. Börzel
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The End of Transformative Power Europe?
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Normative, civilian, transformative, or no power?
•
Europeanization, governance transfer, diffusion
•
Regional power vs. the power of regions
Tanja A. Börzel
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