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*Boltzmann European History Discussion: The Return of the Nation State?
Value Conflicts and the Heritage of the Cold War in Europe*
*Location:* 	Austria
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*Symposium Date:* 	2006-05-12

	

	

The Return of the Nation State?
Value Conflicts and the Heritage of the Cold War in Europe

May 12, 2006
7 p.m.

Kleiner Festsaal, University of Vienna, Dr. Karl Renner-Ring 1, 1010 Vienna

50 years after the Messina Conference and the Treaty of Rome the
European integration process is in a paradox situation. Despite the EU's
geographic enlargement and structural deepening, European politics are
increasingly dominated by national(istic) discourses. In the "old"
EU-member states, the economic arguments of both Christian Democratic
and Social Democratic Parties are coined by “business location
nationalism” (“Standortnationalismus“). Right wing populists refer to
the alleged danger of Eastern European labour migration. Simultaneously,
a growing Euro-scepticism can be detected in Eastern and Southeastern
Europe. And finally, the EU integration itself can be interpreted as the
„European Rescue of the Nation State“ (Alan Milward).

Crucial elements of these nation state-motives in European discourses
are assertions of political, social, religious, and cultural "values"
which are variably connotated in different societies. Where, however,
are the origins of such nuances and striplines? Which implications do
these (seemingly new) value dialectics hold for European politics, but
also for academic analysis?

Within the first Boltzmann European History Discussion, historians and
politologists will debate this topic from a both transnational and
transdisciplinary perspective

Podium discussion
Piotr Buras, Willy-Brandt-Centre at the University of Wrocław
Catherine Horel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Sorbonne
I, Paris
Claus Leggewie, Centre for Interactive Media (ZMI)at the University of
Giessen
Lutz Niethammer, University of Jena
Sieglinde Rosenberger, University of Wien

Moderation
Oliver Rathkolb, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and
Public Spheres / University of Vienna

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