Integration and Identity - Challenges to Europe and Israel
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Shlomo Avinieri, Werner Weidenfeld (eds.): |
Historical processes that lead to political integration give rise not
only to new legal and institutional structures, but also pose far-reaching
challenges to people`s consciousness and views about their own identity.
Nothing shows this more than the long-running debate in varios European
countries as these countries move closer towards economic, monetary and
political integration.
But parallel problems are also faced by new, or newly constructed, nation-states,
and Israel is on of the countries where these issues are perhaps more
dramatically posed than in any other recently established nation. The
authors of this publication, young academics from Israel, Western, Central
and Eastern Europe, take up these questions and offer different perspectives
on them, depending on their individual backgrounds.
This publication is the result of the joint project "European Policy
Network at Israeli Universities" initiated by the BErtelsmann Foundation,
ther Center for Applied Policy Research and theri Israeli cooperation
partner, the Helmut Kohl Institute for European Studies at the Hebrew
University Jerusalem.