ABOUT THIS BOOK
What is Europe? This question is ever more pressing, as present day Europe wallows in crisis - its deepest since the process of European integration took off in the 1950s. The current state of affairs sets the stage for this book. It brings together leading international thinkers and scholars of different generations in a feverish quest to better understand Europe's present state.In their essays these authors engage in the paradoxes and puzzles of European identity and culture. They present new answers to the eternal question regarding 'the essence of Europe'.An anthology of influential texts from the making of present-day Europe completes the book as a very European exercise in thinking and re-thinking Europa, its culture, history and present.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Yoeri Albrecht is the director of De Balie in Amsterdam. He is also the president of Vereniging Veronica, owner of (among others) the Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau and co-initiator of the "European Press Prize".Mathieu Segers (1976) is Professor of Contemporary European History and European Integration at Maastricht University and Dean of University College Maastricht. He has edited numerous books and volumes on European integration - most recently amongst others Re:Thinking Europe (AUP, 2016) and a special issue on Social Market Europe of Journal of Common Market Studies (2019) - and published in numerous journals, including The International History Review, Journal of European Integration History, Contemporary European History, Journal of Cold War Studies, and Journal of Common Market Studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface: Re-creating Europe - Yori AlbrechtIntroduction - Mathieu SegersEuropean Unity and its Vicissitudes (1959) - Isaiah BerlinCONTEMPORARY ESSAYSHomogeneity and Diversity - Tom HollandOn the Identity of the West - Larry SiedentopThe Cowardly Lion in Quest of Peace - Stella GhervasAfterglow of a Dead World - Benno BarnardAnatomy of Resentment - Ivan KrastevThinking Europe -- No Future? - Philip BlomMy EUtopia: Empathy in a Union of Others - Kalypso NicolaïdisCulture and the EU’s Struggle for Legitimacy - Claudia SternbergHISTORICAL TEXTSThoughts on the Future (1943) - Jean MonnetExtracts from a speech in the Main Auditorium of Cologne University (1946) - Konrad AdenauerExtracts from a press conference (1960) - Charles de GaulleThe Tragedy of Central Europe (1984) - Milan KunderaThe Bruges Speech (1988) - Margaret ThatcherExtracts from a speech in the European Parliament (1994) - Václav HavelExtracts from a speech in the European Parliament (1995) - François MitterrandThe Special Quality of Europe is Culture (2001) - György KonrádThe Europe of Melancholy (2006) - Tomasso Padoa-SchioppaNew Alliances and Recomposition Logic (2008) - Édouard BalladurRemarks to the Turkish Parliament (2009) - Barack ObamaGermany in and with and for Europe (2011) - Helmut SchmidtBIOGRAPHIES