An ambitious volume which asks why hopes are fading for a single European identity, despite decades of European integration.

What—if anything—do the twenty-eight member states of the European Union have in common? Amidst all the variety, can one even speak of a European identity?

Heikki Mikkeli charts the history of the idea of Europe and European identity. The first part introduces the various attempts to unify Europe from antiquity to

What makes people identify with Europe? To answer this question, this book analyzes the development and determinants of a common European identity among EU citi

The resilience of nationalism in contemporary Europe may seem paradoxical at a time when the nation state is widely seen as being 'in decline'. The contributors