Table of Contents
Introduction: Rescuing Europe from its Rhetoric
Part I: Thinking and Regretting Europe
Introduction to Part I
1. Thinking Europe in the Age of Enlightenment: philosophes and antiphilosophes between Universalism and Fragmentation
2. Evoking Europe against the French Revolution: the Rhetorical Tools of Counter-revolutionary Thinkers
3. Discourses on Europe and their Political Value in Restoration France
Part II: The Burden of Rhetoric: inside the European Institutions
Introduction to Part II
4. A European Framework for Military Institutions? International Integration and European Perspectives in Military Rhetorics after the Second World War
5. Nuclear Europe: Technoscientific Modernity and European Integration in Euratom’s Early Discourse
6. Parliamentary Groups and Political Traditions in the Debates on EU Institutional Reform (1979-1999)
7. The Political Groups of the European Parliament in the Face of Yugoslavia's Disintegration and the Discursive Framing of EU Foreign Policy (1991-1995)
Part III: Communicating Europe
Introduction to Part III
8. The Alter-globalist Counter-discourse in European Rhetoric and Translation: Women’s Rights at the European Parliament
9. Europe in the Media Space: The Construction of the EU Public Sphere in Italy
10. ISIS’ Dabiq Communicative Strategies, NATO and Europe: Who is Learning from Whom?
11. Changing Perceptions of the European Union in the MENA Region before and after the Arab Uprisings: the Case of Tunisia