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The Euro Crisis, European Identities, and Comparative Regionalism
Transgressing Disciplinary Boundaries
Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel und Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse
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Conceptualizing Collective Identities
• Collectively shared social constructions linking individuals to social groups
• Multiple identities / Europeanization of collective identities: cross-cutting, nested (Russian doll), blended (marble cake)
• Content: sense of common purpose; „in-group/out-group“ distinction
• Contestation and strength
• „imagined communities“ and the problem of „psychological existence“
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Solidarity among Strangers:1.Increase during euro crisis2.Denmark (71%), Sweden (67%), Netherlands (60%)3.Germany (54% – 44%)4.Southern Europe at about average!5.UK (45% - 50%)6.Eastern Europe below average!
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The End of Transformative Power Europe?
• Normative, civilian, transformative, or no power?
• Europeanization, governance transfer, diffusion
• Regional power vs. the power of regions
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The End of Transformative Power Europe?
• Normative, civilian, transformative, or no power?
• Europeanization, governance transfer, diffusion
• Regional power vs. the power of regions
Tanja A. Börzel
Figure 1: Diffusion Mechanisms Following Direct Influence Model
Social mechanism and underlying theory of
social action
Promoter of Ideas (Sender)
Coercion
(force or legal imposition)
coercive authority (Herrschaft),
legal force
Manipulating utility calculations
(instrumental rationality)
(positive and negative) incentives and capacity-building
Socialization
(normative rationality)
promote ideas through providing an authorita-tive model (normative pressure)
Persuasion
(communicative rationality)
promote ideas as legitimate or true through reason-giving
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Figure 2: Emulation: Indirect Mechanisms of Diffusion
Underlying theory of social action Mechanism
Instrumental rationality Competition (functional emulation)
Lesson drawing (functional emulation)
Normative rationality Mimicry (normative emulation)