| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 歐洲研究所碩士班 === 94 === National consciousness and the concept of Europe emerged as two principal factors in European political culture and they also play crucial roles to the future European Integration. Europe is regard as the cradle of the nation-state for a long time, on the other hand, European continent is considered as a special community as well. Nations-state relies on national identity while European integration is dependent on European self-identity. The tension between these two opposite identities influences the speed and the degree of the process of European integration.
By the major approach of historical and secondary literature analysis, this author attempts to focus on the formation of the National and the European identities from political and cultural development of Europe and also tries to explain the difficulty and challenge of identity issues nowadays in European Union. Moreover, based on the three-pillared institutionalism by Scott and the developed by Laffan, though the Draft Constitutional Treaty may consolidate the European Union’s legal system, create important symbols for Europe and present equally European values, the constitution didn’t cohere successfully all the European people. By the result of referendum in France and in Netherlands, two primary member states of European Union, to Constitutional Treaty, we conclude that European people are principally in favor of European integration. For the moment, they still put the national sovereignty and national interests on the first place.
The thesis is divided into five chapters and the structure is as followed:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Development of Nation-State and National Identity
Chapter 3 Development of European Identity
Chapter 4 The influence of The Draft of Constitutional Treaty to European Identity
Chapter 5 Conclusion
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