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标题：European Union at the Crossroads. Interview with Prof. Jan Zielonka
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作者：Laura Leonardi ; Sorina Soare
期刊名称：CAMBIO : Rivista sulle Trasformazioni Sociali
印刷版ISSN：2239-1118
出版年度：2016
卷号：6
期号：11
页码：231-242
出版社：Università degli Studi di Firenze
摘要：Laura Leonardi: Hello and welcome to Florence! Let us start from your most recent publication in Italian, Disintegrazione.Come salvare l’Europa dall’Unione europea. The point of departure is the assessment of the European crisis which you describeas being simultaneously a crisis of cohesion, imagination and trust. In line with this diagnosis, this interview aims to focuson the nature of this crisis, its causes, main actors, manifestations and, last but not least, its consequences. A first questionthat I would make concerns an analytical tool, a concept that you have used in order to define the European Union. Morespecifically, I refer to the EU encompassed as a neo-empire, a concept close, in my understanding, to that of Ulrich Beck, whichalso implies the notion of network. Do you think that the concept of neo-empire is still a useful concept for dealing with thecurrent EU, in a radically changed context, the context you call disintegration?