This special issue of Global Policy, guest edited by Helmut K. Anheier and Damian Chalmers, brings together leading experts to unpick the prospects of ‘Changing the Debate on Europe’. Produced from the discussions at the inaugural Dahrendorf Symposium, the issue examines the processes that have led to the European Union becoming a space for technical cooperation rather than vigorous political contestation, the resilience of the characterisation of Europe as a utopia and Europe’s need to build a common and democratic social space. All the articles are free to access.
Introduction
Lord Ralf Dahrendorf (1929–2009)
Damian Chalmers - Introduction: A Moment for European Sturm und Drang?
Internal Views: Europe as Polity and Economy, Europe and its Society
Mark Hallerberg and Joachim Wehner - The Educational Competence of Economic Policymakers in the EU
Loukas Tsoukalis - The Political Economy of the Crisis: The End of an Era?
Sylvie Goulard - Contribution: The Financial and Euro Crisis
Helmut K Anheier and Mariella Falkenhain - Europe’s Stratified Social Space: Diagnosis and Remedies
Views from Germany and the United Kingdom
Norbert Röttgen - ‘Changing the Debate on Europe’: Towards a European Political Imperative
Wolfgang Ischinger - Contribution: Changing the Debate on Europe
Rt Hon Jim Murphy - Contribution: Changing the Debate on Europe
External Views: A Global Europe?
Michael Cox - Too Big To Fail?: The Transatlantic Relationship from Bush to Obama
Thomas Risse - Identity Matters: Exploring the Ambivalence of EU Foreign Policy