Abstract
Krumrey embeds the European Community (EC) in the context of postwar internationalism and elaborates the book’s central puzzle: the EC, in spite of a multitude of competing European organizations such as the OEEC and the Council of Europe, was credited with the cause of European unity and the normative appeal it bestowed. Thus, he argues, it transcended its otherwise limited, technical nature.
Krumrey argues that mainstream accounts of European integration are often underpinned by implicit realist assumptions and fail to fully explain the EC’s normative appeal. His study of the EC’s symbolic representations helps fill this gap. Krumrey introduces key concepts by the ethnographer Clifford Geertz, especially his image of the “theater state,” which he applies to the book’s three case studies.
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Judt, Postwar, 159.
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For a superb example, see Ludlow, European Community.
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Geertz , Negara, 123.
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Kaiser, Wolfram, Leucht, and Rasmussen, “Origins of a European Polity.”
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Partly an exception, Calligaro, Negotiating Europe.
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Keohane and Hoffmann, “Institutional Change in Europe in the 1980s,” 8.
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Krumrey, J. (2018). Introduction: The EC as a Theater State. In: The Symbolic Politics of European Integration . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68133-7_1
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