Shedding Light on the Quantitative Other: The EU’s Discourse in the Commission Opinions of 1997 Cover Image

A kvantitatív másság felfedezése: AZ EU diskurzusa az 1997-es országvéleményekben
Shedding Light on the Quantitative Other: The EU’s Discourse in the Commission Opinions of 1997

Author(s): Melinda Kovács, Peter Kabachnik
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Replika Alapítvány
Keywords: EU; eastern applicants; Rhetorics; Country Opinions

Summary/Abstract: The 1997 Country Opinions, issued by the EU Commission, reinscribe the Enlightenment’s dichotomy on eastern and western Europe by constructing the eastern applicants as inferior to the EU and the civilization it is made to stand for. The paper reviews the discursive patterns through which the construction takes place

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 45-46
  • Page Range: 46-64
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Hungarian
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