Euroscepticisms. The Historical Roots of a Political Challenge

0525014 - ÚSD 2021 RIV NL eng M - Monography Chapter
Gjuričová, Adéla
The Scepticism of a Latecomer. Modern Czech Views of Europe.
Euroscepticisms. The Historical Roots of a Political Challenge. Leiden: Brill, 2020 - (Gilbert, M.; Pasquinucci, D.), s. 205-221. European Studies. ISBN 978-90-04-37534-5
Institutional support: RVO:68378114
Keywords : euroscepticism * modern Czech nation and Europe * Czech politics after 1989 and the EU
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Gjuričová's chapter contributes to the volume tracking the historical roots of Euroscepticism. It seeks to historicize Czech Euroscepticism after 1989, going beyond the usual political analysis and exploring the nature of looking at Europe through the lens of a small country within an ethnically dominated region of Central Europe from the 19th century onward. After 1989, re–connecting with „Europe” after decades of state socialism was understood largely in symbolic terms as affirmation of historical affinity with the West, and as a commitment to democracy and market economy. The EU was accepted as an integral part of the package. It was the earlier intellectual traditions and political divisions over other issues that made some actors invent the notion of „Europe” as a matter of political dispute.
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