Europe

Nordic security competence: bibliographhy on the foreign and security policy of the Nordic countries

Norge og europeiske sikkerhetspolitiske aktører

Effects of the EU Enlargement on Income Convergence in the Eastern Border Regions

Nye utfordringer for europeisk sikkerhetspolitikk. Aktører, instrumenter og operasjoner

Conditions for Hospitality or Defence of Identity? Writers in Need of Refuge – a Case of Denmark’s ‘Muslim relations’

It takes two to Tango. Danish concepts of dialogue as counterterrorism

Regional Inequality and Convergence in Europe, 1995–2005

European Integration and Domestic Regions: A Numerical Simulation Analysis

East-West Integration and the Economic Geography of Europe

European Identity and Its Changing Others

Taking its clue from Finnish experiences with identity politics, this lecture introduces the concept of collective identity. Collective identity is about forging an acting ‘we’. It constitutes the polis, and is therefore basic to any politics. Constituting the polis is a relational act: the group in question constitutes itself by drawing up and maintaining boundaries towards other groups. Drawing on these insights, the bulk of the lecture discusses European identity in term of Europe’s relations to some of its constituting others. Pointing to the importance of not sealing itself off from its Muslim citizens and neighbours, the lecture ends with a plea for Turkish EU membership.