EU citizenship and Europeanness: national challenges and postnational prospects towards political integration

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2004

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Salkaya, Fatma Elif

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The issue of political integration has been one of the most contentious subjects in terms of the academic studies concerning European integration. Despite many researches have been conducted in the areas concerning institutional problems, enlargement or European security, the researches concerning the socio-political diemnsion of the politcal integration are still very rare. This thesis approaches to the issue of political integration from a socio-political perspective.The problematic of the EU citizenship, its impacts upon the European political identity and possible measures to reconstruct the EU citizenship in accordance with the imperatives of postnational citizenship have been analyzed in a multidimensional framework.In that respect, it has been asserted that, if the EU citizenship could be restructured in accordance with a postnational understanding, it would provide an accurate measure to develop the feelings of Europeanness among the masses and thus,many initial tensions obscuring the political integration would be gradually resolved.

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Citizenship

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13983

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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F. E. Salkaya, “EU citizenship and Europeanness: national challenges and postnational prospects towards political integration,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.