War and intervention in the transnational public sphere: problem-solving and European identity-formation

1. Introduction : transnational political communication and European identity-formation -- 2. The theoretical building blocks : transnational identity discourses on wars and humanitarian military interventions -- 3. Media and media analysis in Europe -- 4. Comparing debates on wars and humanitarian military interventions across nations -- 5. Reality and identities 'under construction'.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgement -- 1. Introduction: Transnational political communication and European identity-formation -- 1.1 Major findings and added value of this study -- 1.2 The study plan -- Notes -- 2. The theoretical building blocks: Transnational identity discourses on wars and humanitarian military interventions -- 2.1 Transnational discourse and transnational political integration -- 2.2 'Ordinary' war versus humanitarian military intervention -- 2.3 Transnational collective identities -- 2.4 Transnational political communication -- 2.5 The study: research questions and hypotheses -- Notes -- 3. Media and media analysis in Europe -- 3.1 Time frame and time periods -- 3.2 Country selection -- 3.3 Studying news: epistemology, data collection and data management -- 3.4 The independent variables: event-data -- 3.5 The dependent variables: corpus-linguistic analysis of newspaper debates -- Notes -- 4. Comparing debates on wars and humanitarian military interventions across nations -- 4.1 Crisis events and transnational convergence of problem perceptions -- 4.2 EU identity references: commercium and communio -- Notes -- 5. Reality and identities 'under construction' -- Note -- Technical Appendix -- Sample characteristics -- Summary of the results of the statistical analyses -- References -- Index.