Framing TTIP in the European Public Spheres: Towards an Empowering Dissensus for EU Integration [Paperback]

This book explores the debate and politicisation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in the Spanish, French and British public spheres. It addresses the questions of how and to what extent the national media discourses about TTIP were Europeanised, and how this type of

Europeanisation contributes to the democratic legitimacy of the EU. The author argues that the politicisation of TTIP should be seen as a symptom of the normal politics of a democratic polity, as it enlarges the political arena by embedding European issues into national political debates. Demands for Another Europe is Possible empower rather than hinder the legitimacy of the EU.

Chapter 1: Introduction to the analysis of the pan-European debate surrounding the TTIP negotiations.- Chapter 2: An agonistic approach to the Europeanisation of public spheres: Matching policy with politics.- Chapter 3: A media-centered approach to analyse the politicisation and Europeanisation of TTIP.- Chapter 4: Framing TTIP in Spain.- Chapter 5: Framing TTIP in France.- Chapter 6: Framing TTIP in the UK.- Chapter 7: Framing TTIP across the Spanish, French and British public spheres: Bursting the Brussels bubble.- Chapter 8: The transnational TTIP debate: politicisation empowers further European integration

Alvaro Oleart is a researcher in EU studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and a scientific collaborator at the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.