Beck, Ulrich, 1944-

Cosmopolitan Europe / Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande ; translated by Ciaran Cronin. - Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity, c2007. - xiii, 311 p. ; 24 cm.

"First published in German as Das kosmopolitische Europa ... Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt, c2004"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-299) and index.

The European malaise and why the idea of cosmopolitan Europe could overcome it -- The reflexive modernization of Europe -- Cosmopolitan empire : statehood and political authority in the process of Europeanization -- European social space : on the social dynamics of variable borders -- Strategies of European cosmopolitanism -- Inequality and recognition : Europe-wide social conflicts and their political dynamics -- On the dialectic of globalization and Europeanization : external contradictions of cosmopolitan Europe -- Cosmopolitan visions for Europe.

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Nationalism--Europe.
Cosmopolitanism--Europe.
Democracy--Europe.


Europe--Foreign relations.

JN30 / .B4313 2007

320.94