NATIONAL IDENTITY AS THE BASIS OF EUROPEAN IDENTITY
A.V. Dyatlov, D.A. Gugueva
Southern Federal University, Str. Bolshaya Sadovaya, 105/42, Rostov-on-Don, 344006, Russia
Keywords: национальная идентичность, европейская идентичность, региональная идентичность, факторы идентичности, Европейский союз, нация, федерализм, национальная принадлежность, national identity, european identity, regional identity, the factors of identity, European Union, nation, federalism, national identity
Abstract
The article analyzes the formation of the united European identity within European Union. The approaches to definition of the national and European identities are considered from the perspective of such theorists like Benedict Anderson, Jurgen Habermas etc. The authors made an attempt to describe the main functions of identity, as well as to mark out the main markers of identity, which con-tribute to substitution of the national identity for the European one for citizens of EU and contribute to its spread.
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