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25 years after the introduction of EU citizenship this book reconsiders its contradictions and constraints as well as promises and prospects. Analyzing a disputed concept and evaluating its implementation and social effects Reconsidering EU Citizenship contributes to the lively debate on European and transnational citizenship. It offers new insights for the ongoing theoretical debates on the future of EU citizenship - a future that will be determined by the transformative path the EU is going to take vis à vis the centrifugal forces of the current economic and political crisis.



Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction: Reconsidering European Citizenship Sandra Seubert and Oliver Eberl PART I: Models and Constructions of EU citizenship 1. EU citizenship and the puzzle of a European Political Union Sandra Seubert 2. The historical origins of local-national citizenship combinations in Western Europe and the implications for EU citizenship Marcel Hoogenboom and Maarten Prak 3. EU citizens´ duties: Preventing barriers to the exercise of citizens´ rights Jan Komárek PART II: Contradictions and Constraints of EU citizenship 4. Market or polis? Sources of different rights and conflicting social logics in the dynamics of European integration Frans van Waarden 5. EU citizenship and ´work´ Tensions between formal and substantive equality Hartley Dean 6. A ´Rights Revolution´ in Europe? The ambiguous relation between rights and citizenship Christoph Strünck 7. Shifting borders and contested identities: The quest for republican EU citizenship and polity Vít Hlousek and Viktor Koska PART III: Prospects for EU Citizenship 8. EU citizenship: Integrating multi-layered identities? Francis Cheneval and Mónica Ferrín 9. EU citizenship and prospects for cosmopolitanism Sandra Seubert 10. Transnational European civic solidarity Oliver Eberl 11. Justifying Europe Phillippe van Parijs Conclusion: From Protection to Empowerment Sandra Seubert Index