Introduction: Rescuing Europe from its Rhetoric

Part I: Thinking and Regretting Europe

Introduction to Part I

1. Thinking Europe in the Age of Enlightenment: philosophes and antiphilosophes between Universalism and Fragmentation

2. Evoking Europe against the French Revolution: the Rhetorical Tools of Counter-revolutionary Thinkers

3. Discourses on Europe and their Political Value in Restoration France

Part II: The Burden of Rhetoric: inside the European Institutions

Introduction to Part II

4. A European Framework for Military Institutions? International Integration and European Perspectives in Military Rhetorics after the Second World War

5. Nuclear Europe: Technoscientific Modernity and European Integration in Euratom’s Early Discourse

6. Parliamentary Groups and Political Traditions in the Debates on EU Institutional Reform (1979-1999)

7. The Political Groups of the European Parliament in the Face of Yugoslavia's Disintegration and the Discursive Framing of EU Foreign Policy (1991-1995)

Part III: Communicating Europe

Introduction to Part III

8. The Alter-globalist Counter-discourse in European Rhetoric and Translation: Women’s Rights at the European Parliament

9. Europe in the Media Space: The Construction of the EU Public Sphere in Italy

10. ISIS’ Dabiq Communicative Strategies, NATO and Europe: Who is Learning from Whom?

11. Changing Perceptions of the European Union in the MENA Region before and after the Arab Uprisings: the Case of Tunisia