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Author Olsen, Espen D. H.

Title Transnational Citizenship in the European Union : Past, Present, and Future.

Publication Info. New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
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Contents Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction: The Challenge of European Citizenship; Citizenship: European, National, or In-Between?; Path Dependence and Critical Junctures of European Citizenship; A Note on Methods; Outline of the Book; 1. The Founding Decades; Integrating Coal and Steel Markets: Whither Citizenship?; The Treaty of Rome: The Market Citizen Appears; ECJ: Raising the Stakes on European Rights; Free Movement Legislation: From Principles to Policy; Conclusion; 2. Bringing Identity, Rights, and Elections In
Paris, Copenhagen, Paris: Visions of Political Union and European IdentityPassport Union; Special Rights for Europeans; A European Electorate; The Tindemans Report: Citizenship Already Out of Vogue?; Conclusion; 3. The European Parliament and the Spinelli Project; "The Crocodile Club"; The Committee on Institutional Affairs; The Draft Treaty on European Union: The EP as a "Constituent Assembly"; Conclusion; 4. Europe of "No Borders"; "A People's Europe"; The Single European Act: Explicit Citizenship Politics Brought to a Halt
The Schengen Agreement: Borderless Europe, (Trans)national CitizenshipFree Movement Legislation: Residence Rights Back in Play; Conclusion; 5. The Maastricht Process; From Amending the SEA to Achieving Political Union; Negotiating Union: Citizenship and Democratic Legitimacy; Union Citizenship: The Fundamentals of Explicit Citizenship in the EU; Conclusion; 6. The Years In-Between: From Maastricht to Constitutional Projects; Post-Maastricht Politics: The "Meaning" of European Citizenship; Amsterdam Treaty: The Circle Was Complete
Nationality, Rights, and the "Internal" Character of CitizenshipThe Charter of Fundamental Rights: Not So "Fundamental" After All?; Conclusion; 7. The Convention on the Future of Europe and Its Aftermath; The "Listening" Phase: Setting the Constitutional Stage; The "Deliberating" Phase: Rights, Dual Citizenship, and Values; The "Drafting" Phase: Consolidation Once More; The "Mourning" Phase: Constitutional Failure and Citizenship; Conclusion; 8. European Projects, Resilience of the "National," and Citizenship in the EU; The Mirage of Transcending the Nation-State
Failed Reform Proposals and Resilience of the "National"New Horizons: European Crises and ECJ Activism; Implications of Studying Transnational Citizenship; Conclusion; Conclusions, Questions, and Challenges; The Argument Summarized; Unanswered Issues and Prospects for Future Research; The Future of European Citizenship; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book argues that European citizenship is transnational, a status that has emerged incrementally during the European integration process. Transnational Citizenship in the European Union follows an institutionalist approach and traces the development of citizenship discourse from the founding treaties of the EU to the most recent effort of constitution-making and the Lisbon Treaty. This helps demonstrate that such discourse has followed a path based on the foundational principles of free movement and non-discrimination rather than revolutionary ideas of a postnational citizenship beyond th.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Citizenship -- European Union countries.
Citizenship.
European Union countries.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Olsen, Espen D. H. Transnational Citizenship in the European Union : Past, Present, and Future New York : Bloomsbury Publishing,c2012 9781628926798
ISBN 9781441169679 electronic book
1441169679 electronic book
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