Philomena Murray

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Philomena Murray

• Europe the End of an Idea or the Spread of
  Ideas?

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Our idea of Europe?
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Europe as hope transformative diversity
nationalism vs Europeanism
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The peace imperative. The normative imperative.
The Integration exporter

• War is God's way of teaching Americans geography
  (Ambrose Bierce).
• Europe is Gods way of teaching the world about
  peace?
• People in the EU Commission are integration
  snobs in the sense that weve done something and,
  because it workedsuccessfully, we sort of think
  we know it all and I think that we come across
  as being very arrogant sometimes.

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Rhetoric- spread of ideas, norms, values

• EU is very definitely a value-driven global
  actor
• EU international ambitions going to be
  value-driven
• The EU has global ambitions in terms of dousing
  civil wars wherever possible, in terms of
  pointing the world, steering the world, dragging
  the world in the righteous path on climate
  change, biodiversity.

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Social Europe, Social values

• If we all agreed through ASEAN, APEC, NAFTA, the
  EC, GATT and the IMF to knock off work early and
  be with our children, no one in the world would
  have a competitive advantage. (Elliot Perlman,
  1998).

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Australia and Europe - the burden of memory -
CAPUK
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Kevin Rudd and European Commission President
Barroso the way forward?
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Monnets or Sarkozys Idea of Europe?
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THE FUTURE

• No return to nationalist hatred.
• EU here to stay.
• Crisis? 112million. Eppur si muove
• Spectre of war
• Anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim sentiment,
  exclusionism.
• The EU is not the only soft power.
• Speak softly, carry big carrot.
• Self-engrossed?
• Visionaries?