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(2010) Europeanization in the twentieth century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Europeanization through violence?
war experiences and the making of modern Europe
Robert Gerwarth, Stephan Malinowski
pp. 189-209
Unlike the more ambivalent transnational concepts of "Americanization" and "Globalization", the increasingly popular term "Europeanization" is generally used to describe unambiguously positive processes of political, socio-economic and cultural integration within the institutional framework of the European Union.1 Peaceful forms of cross-cultural encounters, shared values, free trade, transnational exchanges of ideas, a culture of compromise, and increasing inter-state cooperation are, or so it seems, at the heart of what we commonly perceive as "Europeanization"; a transnational process that culminated in the EU, a realm of peace and prosperity in which the demons of a nationalist past have become history.2
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Gerwarth, R. , Malinowski, S. (2010)., Europeanization through violence?: war experiences and the making of modern Europe, in M. Conway & K. K. Patel (eds.), Europeanization in the twentieth century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 189-209.
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