Discourses and counter-discourses on Europe from the Enlightenment to the EU

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- 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 -- Index.