Introduction

  • Steffen Bay Rasmussen University of Deusto
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-64-2021pp23-26
Keywords: sustainability, democracy, diversity, societal trust, magic concepts, Spitzenkandidaten, sustainable development, participatory democracy, European Citizens’ Initiative, community-based tourism, imaginary, threat perception, factorial survey

Abstract

The process of European integration has evolved through crises of governance towards ever greater integration of the societies of the participating member states, giving rise to new questions about the political organization of the European continent. At the same time, European societies have become ever more diverse, giving rise to new and complex problematiques of coexistence. Europe must now also deal with the consequences of an economic model based on the consumption of finite resources. Beyond specific crises and events, Europe is therefore faced with a multifaceted challenge of ecological, democratic and societal sustainability. To approach the challenges from the point of view of sustainability means to see the ecological, democratic and societal long-term viability of Europe as made possible by the continuous reconstruction of European societies through innovative cultural, social, economic and political practices under the ecological constraints posed by the limits of our planet.

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Author Biography

Steffen Bay Rasmussen, University of Deusto

Associate professor of international relations at the University of Deusto and Director of Studies of the Erasmus Mundus Master in Euroculture: Society, politics and culture in a global context. He teaches courses on Public International Law and International Relations, including on the history and theory of European integration, comparative regional integration and public diplomacy and has been a visiting professor and researcher at various universities, such as the Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael), the Sultan Qaboos University (Oman), University of Navarra (Spain), and the University of the Basque Country (Spain). His current research is centred on EU international strategy and diplomatic relations, public diplomacy as well as on EU international identity and ontological security. His recent publications include “The ideas and practices of the European Union’s structural antidiplomacy: An unstable equilibrium”, Boston, Brill, 2018.

Published
2021-05-14
How to Cite
Bay Rasmussen, Steffen. 2021. “Introduction”. Deusto Journal of European Studies, no. 64 (May), 23-26. https://doi.org/10.18543/ced-64-2021pp23-26.
Issue
No. 64 (2021): A sustainable Europe: Society, Politics and Culture in the Anthropocene
Section
Introduction

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