Branislav Radeljic is Senior Lecturer in International Politics within the School of Law and Social Sciences, University of East London.

This book, premised on the development and survival of the European integrationist project, tackles some crucial questions with the potential to affect EU performance. It evaluates the basic understanding and power of European identity, and the responses offered by individual states and supranational elites and their respective publics.

Contents: Branislav Radeljic: Debating European Identity - Nick Stevenson: European Freedom and European Memory - Adam F. Kola: European Identity, Minor Transnationalism and a Semi-Peripheral Perspective - Emma De Angelis: The EU's Historical Narrative and Enlargement to Eastern Europe - Fran Cetti: Europe and the 'Global Alien': The Centrality of the Forced Migrant to a Pan-European Identity - Bo Stråth: The Idea of a European Identity as an Escape Forward: A Historical Perspective on the Present Euro Crisis - Dora Kostakopoulou: Political Alchemies, Identity Games and the Sovereign Debt Instability: European Identity in Crisis or the Crisis in Identity-Talk? - Victor M. Olivieri: The Trajectory and Political Implications of European Identity in a Time of Crisis - Martina Topic: European Identity and the Far Right in Central Europe: A New Emerging Concept or a New European 'Other'? - Miruna Andreea Balosin: The European Public Space: More Than Words? - Monica Merutiu: Religious Identity and Secularization in Europe - Ayhan Kaya: Europeanization or De-Europeanization: The Myth of Tolerance in Turkey.

This edited volume, premised on the development and survival of the European integrationist project, tackles some crucial questions which have the potential to affect European Union performance if not addressed properly and in a timely manner. It evaluates the basic understanding and power of European identity as a medium in the overall process, as well as the responses offered by the individual states and supranational elites and their respective publics. Needless to say, economic, political and social aspects are serious enough individually that each can challenge and erode further the often problematic connection between the elites and the public - a connection confirming its full relevance in times of crisis when the future of European unity seems even less certain.