{"id":2477,"date":"2022-11-15T17:46:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axsonjohnsonfoundation.org\/?post_type=seminar&p=2477"},"modified":"2022-11-25T12:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T12:45:17","slug":"2012-the-pursuit-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"seminar","link":"https:\/\/axsonjohnsonfoundation.org\/sv\/seminarier\/2012-the-pursuit-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"2012: The Pursuit of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n In Greek mythology, Europa was the Phoenicean princess whom Zeus pursued and raped while dressed as a white bull. But if Europe was once a Greek dream, she has inspired several subsequent dreams in the aftermath of war and disaster \u2013 of unity, peace, national cooperation, a single market and latterly a single currency \u2013 which now seem to haunt the present. Will the modern European project be derailed by the sheer ambitions of those dreams? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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But what is Europe? Is it merely a continent, a geographical entity? And when did it come to have any sense of identity or political unity?<\/p>\n

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Did Europe become a rallying cry to stave off the bellicose nature of Europeans as a misplaced peace initiative? The pursuit of the idea of Europe has been a story in itself.<\/p>\n

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This conference will seek to probe Europe\u2019s historical antecedents, and to establish the self-perceptions of Europeans across a wide range of its past. When did Europeans start to identify as European? Why has European unity been so elusive in history? And as the French historian of the 19th century, Fran\u00e7ois Guizot, once remarked, that Europe\u2019s strength and creativity is in its very lack of unity. Something, after all, needs to explain the sheer dimension of Europe\u2019s creativity in the arts, music, painting, sculpture, literature, sciences, physics, philoso- phy, political ideas and so much more: indeed it invented most of these spheres of learning and human expression. As the birthplace of Western civilisation, Europe invented much of the modern world.<\/p>\n

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But the term Europe has in fact meant different things at different times. Herodotus spoke of the world being divided into three parts: Europe, Asia and Libya, with the Nile and the River Phasis forming their boundaries. By the 1st century, the geographer, Strabo, stated that the eastern frontier was at the River Don.<\/p>\n

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A definition of Europe as the lands of Western Christianity arose in the 8th century, signifying the contrast with Byzantium and Islam. Europa often figures in the letters of Charlemagne\u2019s cultural minister, Alcuin. In 1730, the Swedish geographer and cartographer von Strahlenberg proposed the Ural Mountains as the most significant eastern boundary (instead of waterways), a suggestion that found favour throughout Europe.<\/p>\n

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Today, the word Europe is often used in a geopolitically limiting way, to refer only to the European Union, or even more exclusively, a particular culturally defined core. However, the Council of Europe has 47 member states and only 27 are in the EU. Also, people living in outlying areas or islands such as Ireland, the United Kingdom, the North Atlantic and Mediterranean islands as well as Scandinavians may refer to \u201cCon- tinental Europe\u201d or Europe simply as \u201cthe continent\u201d.<\/p>\n

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What were the intentions of the early founding fathers of the European Community? And what of Europe\u2019s future in this respect? Will Europe stick together or will we once again be hearing the eerie cry evoking the spirit of British weather forecasts from the 1930s: \u201cFog in Channel; Continent Cut Off.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\n Peter Alter: The Concert of Europe 1780\u20131830: Europe in an Age of Nationalism <\/p>\n

\n Professor of European History, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Ariane Chebel d\u2019Appollonia: United in Adversity? European Identity in Times of Crisis <\/p>\n

\n Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, School of Public Administration, Rutgers University, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Jos\u00e9 M. de Areilza: The Challenges of European Integration <\/p>\n

\n Professor of European Union Law and Jean Monnet Chair at IE Law School, Madrid, Spain, Secretary General of Aspen Institute <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Patricia Clavin: Economic Crises and the Making of Europe <\/p>\n

\n Professor of International History, Jesus College, University of Oxford, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Robert Cooper: EU Foreign Policy in Times of Peace: Power Without Statehood <\/p>\n

\n Counsellor, European External Action Service, Brussels, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Argita Daudze: Expansion East and the Erosion of Memory <\/p>\n

\n Latvian Ambassador to the Ukraine, Latvia <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Konstantin von Eggert: The View From Russia <\/p>\n

\n Commentator and Host, Kommersant FM radio Moscow, Russia <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n John Elliott: The Difficulties of Unity 1500\u20131750 <\/p>\n

\n Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Oxford, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Ahmet Evin: Muslims in Europe: Integration or Isolation? <\/p>\n

\n Jean Monnet Professor of European Policy Studies at Sabanci University, Turkey <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Pierre Hassner: The Paradoxes of European Identity <\/p>\n

\n Senior Research Fellow Emeritus, Centre d\u2019Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris, France <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Hans-Olaf Henkel: The Mistakes of Euromantics <\/p>\n

\n Professor of International Management at the University of Mannheim, Germany, former President of German Federation of Business (BDI) <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Gunnar H\u00f6kmark: The Spirit of Europe <\/p>\n

\n Swedish Member of the European Parliament, Vice-President of the EPP Group, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Peter Jay: Europe\u2019s Association of Democracies: Third French Empire or Fourth Reich? <\/p>\n

\n Former Economics Editor of The Times, London, UK, and of the BBC, former British Ambassador to the USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Josef Joffe: The Euro: Too Soon, Too Much, Too Bad <\/p>\n

\n Editor of Die Zeit, Germany. Senior Fellow, Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University and Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Oliver Kamm: Creating Europe: The Achievements of Integration <\/p>\n

\n Leader Writer and Columnist, The Times, London, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Eric Kaufmann: The Return of Religion <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, London, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Nigel Lawson: The Disaster of European Monetary Union <\/p>\n

\n Former Chancellor of the Exchequer, UK and Member of the Economic Affairs Committee of the House of Lords, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Philippe Legrain: Prospects for the Euro <\/p>\n

\n Economic Adviser to the President of the European Commission, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Mark Leonard: Make or Break: A New Europe? <\/p>\n

\n Director, European Council on Foreign Relations, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Jan-Werner M\u00fcller: Democratic Exclusion and Europe\u2019s Political Identity <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Politics University of Princeton, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Anthony Pagden: The Idea of Europe: From the Great Republic to the European Union <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Political Science and History, UCLA, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n George Pagoulatos: The Eurozone Crisis: A View From Greece <\/p>\n

\n Senior Adviser to the Greek Prime Minister and Professor of European Politics and Economy at the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Kiran Klaus: Foes into Friends: Germany\u2019s Role in Postwar European Integration <\/p>\n

\n Patel Professor of European and Global History, Maastricht University, Belgium <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Agn\u00e8s C. Poirier: Victor Hugo and Greater Europe <\/p>\n

\n Political Commentator, Writer and Broadcaster, France <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Alan Posener: Germany\u2019s Burden: Kohl, Thatcher and the Future of the Euro <\/p>\n

\n Columnist, for Die Welt and Welt am Sonntag, Berlin, Germany <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n David Rennie: Three Threats to Europe\u2019s Internal Market <\/p>\n

\n Political Editor, the Economist, London, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Giulia Sissa: Rediscovering Europe and Inventing Eutopia <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Political Science and Classics, UCLA, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n P\u00e4r Stenb\u00e4ck: Will Europe Prevail on the World Scene? <\/p>\n

\n Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Finland, ExCom Board member, International Crisis Group (ICG), Chairman, European Cultural Parliament, Finland <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Bruce Stokes: The View from the US <\/p>\n

\n Director Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Centre, former Senior Translantic Fellow for Economics at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n David Voas: The Future of Europe: Secular but not Secularist; Diverse not Divided <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Population Studies, University of Essex, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Yu Yongding: The View from China <\/p>\n

\n Academician of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and former member of Monetary Policy Committee of the People\u2019s Bank of China (Central Bank of PRC), China <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Jan Zielonka: Europe: The Model Power? <\/p>\n

\n Professor of European Politics, St Antony\u2019s College, University of Oxford, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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