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Negotiating Unity and Diversity in the European Union

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Authors:
  1. Florian Bieber

    1. Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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  2. Roland Bieber

    1. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  • Treats the EU as a state rather than a supra-national International Organization
  • Engages with literature on the EU and the management of ethno-political conflict
  • Offers new insights on deeply divided societies, while also shedding a different light on the EU

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Florian Bieber, Roland Bieber
    Pages 1-16

  3. Regimes of Diversity

    • Florian Bieber, Roland Bieber
    Pages 17-52

  4. Diversity in the European Union

    • Florian Bieber, Roland Bieber
    Pages 53-77

  5. Approaches to Diversity in the EU

    • Florian Bieber, Roland Bieber
    Pages 79-101

  6. Unity and Diversity Through the EU Institutions and Procedures

    • Florian Bieber, Roland Bieber
    Pages 103-130

  7. ‘Europe’ as a Symbol: Symbols of Europe

    • Florian Bieber, Roland Bieber
    Pages 131-157

  8. Exclusion and Belonging: The Ambiguities of European Citizenship

    • Florian Bieber, Roland Bieber
    Pages 159-180

  9. The Gradual Emergence of European Minority Rights

    • Florian Bieber, Roland Bieber
    Pages 181-207

  10. Conclusions

    • Florian Bieber, Roland Bieber
    Pages 209-222

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 223-233
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About this book

This book explores how the European Union has been responding to the challenge of diversity. In doing so, it considers the EU as a complex polity that has found novel ways for accommodating diversity. Much of the literature on the EU seeks to identify it as a unique case of cooperation between states that moves past classic international cooperation. This volume argues that in order to understand the EU’s effort in managing the diversity among its members and citizens it is more effective to look at the EU as a state. While acknowledging that the EU lacks key aspects of statehood, the authors show that looking at the EU efforts to balance diversity and unity through the lens of state policy is a fruitful way to understand the Union. Instead of conceptualising the EU as being incomparable and unique which is neither an international organisation nor a state, the book argues that EU can be understood as a polity that shares many approaches and strategies with complex and diverse states.As such, its effort to build political structures to accommodate diversity offers lessons to other such polities. The experience of the EU contributes to the understanding of how states and other polities can respond to challenges of diversity, including both the diversity of constituent units or of sub-national groups and identities.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Florian Bieber

  • University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Roland Bieber

About the authors

Florian Bieber is Professor for Southeast European History and Politics at the University of Graz, Austria.

Roland Bieber is Professor Emeritus of European Law at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.


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