Political Psychology of European Integration

TY - CHAP

T1 - Political Psychology of European Integration

AU - Manners, Ian James

N1 - Ian Manners is Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - The chapter engages in a survey of what political psychology and European integration have to say to each other in the understanding of the European Union. The chapter draws on five strands of political psychology as part of this engagement – conventional psychology, social psychology, social construction, psychoanalysis, and critical political psychology. Within each strand a number of examples of scholarship at the interface of political psychology and European integration are examined. The chapter argues that the study of the EU has much to benefit from political psychology in terms of theories and methods of European identity and integration, but it also argues that political psychology can benefit from the insights of European integration by rethinking the processes that drive the marking of inside and outside, interior and exterior, belonging and otherness.

AB - The chapter engages in a survey of what political psychology and European integration have to say to each other in the understanding of the European Union. The chapter draws on five strands of political psychology as part of this engagement – conventional psychology, social psychology, social construction, psychoanalysis, and critical political psychology. Within each strand a number of examples of scholarship at the interface of political psychology and European integration are examined. The chapter argues that the study of the EU has much to benefit from political psychology in terms of theories and methods of European identity and integration, but it also argues that political psychology can benefit from the insights of European integration by rethinking the processes that drive the marking of inside and outside, interior and exterior, belonging and otherness.

KW - Faculty of Social Sciences

KW - Political Psychology

KW - European Integration

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 9781137291172

T3 - The Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology Series

SP - 263

EP - 278

BT - The Palgrave Handbook of Global Political Psychology

A2 - Nesbitt-Larking, Paul

A2 - Kinnvall, Catarina

A2 - Capelos, Tereza

A2 - Dekker, Henk

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - Basingstoke; London, N.Y.

ER -