Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Palgrave Macmillan

National Government Narratives of the EU

'Official Stories’ of Belonging

  • Book
  • Jul 2024

Overview

Editors:
  1. Hussein Kassim

    1. Philosophy, Language & Communication, Univ of East Anglia, School of Politics, Norwich, United Kingdom

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Adriaan Schout

    1. Relations Clingendael, EU Studies, Netherlands Inst of International, 'S-GRAVENHAGE, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Systematically analyses official national EU narratives produced by governments
  • Follows the ‘narrative turn’ that has recently taken place in the social sciences and humanities
  • Helps develop a better understanding of how member states fit into theories of European integration

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)

Buy print copy

Keywords

  • European Union
  • national narratives
  • Euroscepticism
  • governments and the EU
  • future of EU integration

About this book

This book examines and compares government narratives of the EU. It thereby addresses a topical issue of major political importance. Bringing together leading specialists from across Europe, it takes a first step in filling a gap in the scholarly literature where attention has focused mainly on narrative-making at the EU level or societal understandings of ‘Europe’. At a time when crises, the rise of Eurosceptic populism and the UK’s departure have revealed differences in how states view the purpose of the European Union and the significance and value of EU membership, it asks: How do governments explain and justify their relationship with the EU? How do these narratives change over time? What do these visions imply for the EU’s future?

Editors and Affiliations

  • Philosophy, Language & Communication, Univ of East Anglia, School of Politics, Norwich, United Kingdom

    Hussein Kassim

  • Relations Clingendael, EU Studies, Netherlands Inst of International, 'S-GRAVENHAGE, The Netherlands

    Adriaan Schout

About the editors

Hussein Kassim is Professor of Politics at the University of East Anglia and ESRC Senior Fellow under ‘The UK in a Changing Europe’ programme, UK.


Adriaan Schout is Senior Research Fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (‘Clingendael’), and Professor of EU public administration, Radboud University.







Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: National Government Narratives of the EU

  • Book Subtitle: 'Official Stories’ of Belonging

  • Editors: Hussein Kassim, Adriaan Schout

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19985-1Due: 12 August 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19988-2Due: 12 August 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19986-8Due: 12 August 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2662-5873

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 294

  • Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation