What Holds Europe Together?

• Main Author: Krzysztof Michalski (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Central European University Press 2005
• Subjects: Biography & True Stories; social ideologies; liberalism; Europe; European identity; human rights; economic liberalism; religion; freedom; European Union; political ideologies; capitalism; social state; solidarity; social justice; equality; deficit; cooperation
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The book addresses contemporary developments in European identity politics as part of a larger historical trajectory of a common European identity based on the idea of 'solidarity.' The authors explain the special sense in which Europeans perceive their obligations to their less fortunate...