Europe, Nations and Modernity

This work offers a fresh perspective to the study of 'Europe' by placing the discussion of 'What is Europe?' and 'What is it to be European?', in a wider context of the study of modernity through a collection of nine case studies.

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AYHAN KAYA Professor of Political Science at the Department of International Relations, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey AYSE TECMAN Student at Emory University, USA and Ustanbul Bigli University, Turkey. She currently works at Istanbul Bilgi University as an FP7 Programme Project Assistant GERALDINE BOZEC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the European Studies Centre (Sciences Po), France SOPHIE DUCHESNE CNRS Research Professor at European Studies Centre (Sciences Po), France, and Associate Member of the Department of Politics and International relations at Oxford, UK THEA D. BOLDT-JAREMKO Research Fellow in Cultural and Sociological Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen, Germany MARKO HAJDINJAK Project Coordinator and Researcher at IMIR, Bulgaria MAYA KOSSEVA Project Coordinator and Researcher at IMIR, Bulgaria ANTONINA ZHELYAZKOVA Chairperson of the Board of Directors of IMIR, Bulgaria ANNA TRAINDAFYLLIDOU Professor at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, in Florence, Italy, and Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens, Greece RUBY GROPAS Lecturer in International Relations and International History at the Law department of the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece, and Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens, Greece MARTINA TOPI? Final Year Ph.D. Students in Sociology at the Faculty of Humanities and Social sciences of the University of Zagreb, Croatia ANDRÁS KOVÁCS Professor at the Nationalism Studies and Jewish Studies Program at the Central European University, Hungary, and since 2002 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethnic and Minority Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary ANIKÓ HORVÁTH Research Fellow at the Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary ZSUZSANNA VIDRA Sociologist who studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France MARJO ESKOLA Studies in Cultural Management at the University of Helsinki, Finland TIINA RÄISÄ Ph.D Student at the University of Helsinki, Finland HENRIK STENIUS Research Director of the Centre for Nordic Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland

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This work offers a fresh perspective to the study of 'Europe' by placing the discussion of 'What is Europe?' and 'What is it to be European?', in a wider context of the study of modernity through a collection of nine case studies.

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Acknowledgement List of Contributors Introduction: Europe as Modernity; A. Ichijo PART I: 'PROTO-TYPES' Turkish Modernity: A Continuous Journey of Europeanization; A.Kaya & A.Tecman Europe as a Missed Opportunity: Looking Backwards to Modernity in France; G.Bozec & S.Duchesne German European Identities and Modernity; T.Boldt-Jaremko PART II: VARIED MANIFESTATIONS OF THE 'PROTO-TYPES' European Dilemmas and Identity Construction on the Bulgarian Path to Modernity; M.Kosseva , A.Zhelyazkova M.Hajdinjak Greek Modernity and Europe: An Ambivalent Relationship; R.Gropas & A.Triandafyllidou Nation Formation and Europeanization as a Conflict of Tradition and Modernization: Croatia's Case Revisited; M.Topic The Ferry-Country Between East and West: Debates on Modernity and Europe in Hungary; A.Kovács, A.Horváth Z.Vidra Identity Construction and Modernity in Finland: Borders, Ruptures and Significant Others; M.Eskola, T.Räisä & H.Stenius 'Europe' and Modernity in the British Context; A.Ichijo References Index