Open AccessPlurality of Identities in Europe
Author(s) -
Carmen Greab
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
politikon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1583-3984
pISSN - 2414-6633
DOI - 10.22151/politikon.12.12
Subject(s) - unitary state , european union , context (archaeology) , political science , member states , identity (music) , international trade , european integration , political economy , law and economics , economic system , law , economics , geography , physics , archaeology , acoustics
The European Union differs from the traditional states not only due to its external policies or internal institutional design, but also due to its claim to act as a single and unitary actor. Moreover, if we look within European Union, some of the member states are many times rivals for the EU as actors in the international arena. In this context, the present article is trying to analyze this difficulty of European Union to be a unitary international actor from a more recent approach to international relations, that of identity.