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Symbols and Myths of European Union Transnational Solidarity

Manners, Ian LU orcid (2020) p.76-100
Abstract
The chapter explores the symbols and myths of EU transnational solidarity through a threefold analysis of transnational solidarity within, across, and beyond the EU. Based on post-Cold War study of the EU in global politics over the past three decades, it compares and contrasts transnational solidarity from communitarian and cosmopolitan perspectives before advocating a cosmopolitical understanding of EU transnational solidarity in a global context. The chapter examines transnational solidarity within the EU by looking at symbols and myths of communitarian, cosmopolitan and cosmopolitical solidarities. It then looks across the borders of the EU to consider the symbols and myths of communitarian, cosmopolitan, and cosmopolitical... (More)
The chapter explores the symbols and myths of EU transnational solidarity through a threefold analysis of transnational solidarity within, across, and beyond the EU. Based on post-Cold War study of the EU in global politics over the past three decades, it compares and contrasts transnational solidarity from communitarian and cosmopolitan perspectives before advocating a cosmopolitical understanding of EU transnational solidarity in a global context. The chapter examines transnational solidarity within the EU by looking at symbols and myths of communitarian, cosmopolitan and cosmopolitical solidarities. It then looks across the borders of the EU to consider the symbols and myths of communitarian, cosmopolitan, and cosmopolitical solidarities within the European neighbourhood. It then goes beyond the EU to analyse the symbols and myths of communitarian, cosmopolitan and cosmopolitical solidarities with distantly situated others through EU external actions. It concludes by arguing the need to clearly identify, in line with Carol Gould, transnational EU solidarities as overlapping networks of relations that share and support actions to eliminate oppression or reduce suffering. It further argues that cosmopolitical solidarities that network and share global ethics with local politics are more likely to take actions in concert that are caring and empathic towards distantly situated others. (Less)
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subject
keywords
Symbols, Myths, European Union, transnational solidarity, communitarian, cosmopolitan, cosmopolitics
host publication
Transnational Solidarity : Concept, Challenges and Opportunities - Concept, Challenges and Opportunities
editor
Krunke, Heller ; Petersen, Hanne and Manners, Ian
pages
24 pages
publisher
Cambridge University Press
external identifiers
  • scopus:85139844251
ISBN
9781108487368
9781108809603
DOI
10.1017/9781108766593.007
project
Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics
language
English
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70abe358-c07f-4d52-9da0-a346aa9b54ea
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  author       = {{Manners, Ian}},
  booktitle    = {{Transnational Solidarity : Concept, Challenges and Opportunities}},
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  title        = {{Symbols and Myths of European Union Transnational Solidarity}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/91289644/Ian_Manners_2020_Symbols_and_Myths_of_European_Union_Transnational_Solidarity_word_version.pdf}},
  doi          = {{10.1017/9781108766593.007}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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