Re:Thinking Europe: Thoughts on Europe: Past, Present and Future [Paperback]

What is Europe? This concise, yet immensely complex, question, more pressing than ever during this time of intense political crisis—the worst since the process of European integration began in the 1950s—sets the stage for this volume. Bringing together international thinkers and scholars from different generations, including Barack Obama, Margaret Thatcher, Milan Kundera, Tom Holland, Ivan Krastev, Philipp Blom, and many others, the essays engage with the paradoxes and puzzles of European identity, ultimately rethinking the continent’s culture, history, present—and future.

Yoeri Albrechtis the director of the theater De Balie in Amsterdam.Mathieu Segersis professor of international relations and European integration at Utrecht University.

Preface: Re-creating Europe
Yoeri Albrecht
 
Introduction
Mathieu Segers
 
European Unity and its Vicissitudes (1959)
Isaiah Berlin
 
CONTEMPORARY ESSAYS
 
Homogeinity and Diversity
Tom Holland
 
On the Identity of the West
Larry Siedentop
 
The Cowardly Lion in Quest of Peace
Stella Ghervas
 
Afterglow of a Dead World
Benno Barnard
 
Anatomy of Resentment
Ivan Krastev
 
Thinking Europe—No Future?
Philipp Blom
 
My EUtopia: Empathy in a Union of Others
Kalypso Nicolaïdis
 
Culture and the EU’s Struggle for Legitimacy
Claudia Sternberg
 
HISTORICAL TEXTS

Thoughts on the Future (1943)
Jean Monnet
 
Extracts from a speech in the Main Auditorium of Cologne University (1946)
Konrad Adenauer
 
Extracts from a press conference (1960)
Charles de Gaulle
 
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