@article{2023:von_lucke:zwischen_f,
title = {Zwischen Furcht und ontologischer (Un-)Sicherheit: eine Analyse europäischer Zusammenhaltsnarrative in Zeiten der Polykrise},
year = {2023},
note = {As part of a “polycrisis”, the threats posed by COVID-19 and
Russia's attack on Ukraine have brought questions of “security”
and solidarity back into the spotlight of European debates. In the
history of the European Union (EU), however, direct external threats
have been the exception. Instead, debates have mostly revolved around
diffuse, inward-looking anxieties about the nature of the EU, its
internal functioning, and its international role. In this context, the
literature has called the EU an “anxious community”. Based on an
ontological (in)security approach, this article analyses how Members
of the European Parliament (MEP) construct different forms of European
identity, the EU’s capacity to act and solidarity in the face of
multiple crises. In contrast to the literature, we show that fear and
insecurity do not prevail, but that MEPs remain surprisingly confident
about the EU’s nature and the integration process, and are convinced
that the EU can master any crisis and grow as a result.},
journal = {integration},
pages = {300--317},
author = {von Lucke, Franziskus and Diez, Thomas},
volume = {46},
number = {4}
}