Framing TTIP in the European Public Spheres: Towards an Empowering Dissensus for EU Integration

by Alvaro Oleart

Overview

This book explores the debate and politicisation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in the Spanish, French and British public spheres. It addresses the questions of how and to what extent the national media discourses about TTIP were Europeanised, and how this type ofEuropeanisation contributes to the democratic legitimacy of the EU. The author argues that the politicisation of TTIP should be seen as a symptom of the ‘normal’ politics of a democratic polity, as it enlarges the political arena by embedding European issues into national political debates. Demands for ‘Another Europe is Possible’ empower rather than hinder the legitimacy of the EU.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030536374
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	11/24/2020
Series:	Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Alvaro Oleart is a researcher in EU studies at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and a scientific collaborator at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to the analysis of the pan-European debate surrounding the TTIP negotiations.- Chapter 2: An agonistic approach to the Europeanisation of public spheres: Matching ‘policy with politics’.- Chapter 3: A media-centered approach to analyse the politicisation and Europeanisation of TTIP.- Chapter 4: Framing TTIP in Spain.- Chapter 5: Framing TTIP in France.- Chapter 6: Framing TTIP in the UK.- Chapter 7: Framing TTIP across the Spanish, French and British public spheres: Bursting the Brussels bubble.- Chapter 8: The transnational TTIP debate: politicisation empowers further European integration

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Alvaro Oleart offers a ground-breaking understanding of the European public sphere and new insights in the way in which it operates” (Ben Crum, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

“This book is a highly relevant read for all those interested in the relation between EU contestation and Euroscepticism. Drawing on an agonistic and deliberative understanding of the public sphere, this rigorous study of the politicised debate on TTIP is a significant contribution to the emergence of a European public sphere, and thus to the continued democratisation of the EU.” (Maximilian Conrad - Professor of Political Science at the University of Iceland)