Discourses and counter-discourses on Europe : from the Enlightenment to the EU / edited by Manuela Ceretta and Barbara Curli.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Rescuing Europe from its Rhetoric / Manuela Ceretta and Barbara Curli -- Thinking Europe in the Age of Enlightenment : Philosophes and Antiphilosophes between Universalism and Fragmentation / Patrizia Delpiano -- Evoking Europe against the French Revolution : the Rhetorical Tools of Counter-revolutionary Thinkers / Manuela Ceretta -- Discourses on Europe and their Political Value in Restoration France / Giuseppe Sciara -- A European Framework for Military Institutions? : International Integration and European Perspectives in Military Rhetorics after the Second World War / Marco Di Giovanni -- Nuclear Europe : Technoscientific Modernity and European Integration in Euratom's Early Discourse / Barbara Curli -- Parliamentary Groups and Political Traditions in the Debates on EU Institutional Reform (1979-1999) / Paolo Caraffini, Filippo Maria Giordano -- The political groups of the European Parliament in the face of Yugoslavia disintegration and the Discursive Framing of EU Foreign Policy (1991-1995) / Giovanni Finizio, Umberto Morelli -- The Alter-globalist Counter-discourse in European Rhetoric and Translation : Women's Rights at the European Parliament / Maria Cristina Caimotto, Rachele Raus -- Europe in the Media Space : The construction of the EU public sphere in Italy / Marinella Belluati, Cristopher Cepernich -- ISIS-Dabiq Communicative Strategies, NATO and Europe : Who is Learning from Whom? / Michelangelo Conoscenti -- Changing Perceptions of the European Union in the MENA region before and after the Arab uprisings : the case of Tunisia / Rosita Di Peri, Federica Zardo.