European National Process Of European Integration

Though European integration takes place in the scope of Europe, it attracts attention from the whole world because of the traditional influence of European nations. Now that European integration has entered the stage of alliance between nations, it belongs to the fastest in integration in the world. This dissertation, entitled as "The Ethno-National Process and European Integration", mainly analyzes the relationship between the two and discusses how they enhance each other.This paper falls into six chapters.Chapter One is an introduction, briefly illustrating the origin of European integration from the perspective of ethnology and presenting the main structure of the whole dissertation.Chapter Two is on the pattern of ethno-national process and its tie with European integration. As the ethno-national phenomenon is existent widely and composed of manifold elements, the ethno-national process should become a significant pattern of knowledge in present world with the concept of nation as its core. In reality, the essence of a nation is the sum of relations between people and people connected through cultural differences, while the ethno-national process is one of the respects of human history. European ethno-national process refers to the massive national campaigns in Europe and the connected areas, whereas European integration is a special product of European ethno-national process.Chapter Three is on the early stage of ethno-national process and the society in European states. The narrow and complicated territories and the various nations predetermined the features of the early history of European nations. The drastic and continuous clashes between different nations caused the destruction and instability in Europe and, in the meantime, breed the potentiality of rapid confluence of different cultures. Before the rise of modern civilization, there had appeared disproportionate national developments in different European areas with the cultural foundation in West Europe being first set up in the ethno-national process.Chapter Four is on the rise of national states and the establishment of relation of states. The nation-states, combining together the cultural attributes of nations and the feature of power of states, were born when European nations entered a certain stage. European nation-states developed from national kingdoms, wherefrom the concept of modern nations and the stream of nationalism stemmed and spread. With the growth of nation-states in West Europe, the foreign expansion of European nations exerted important influence on the ethno-national process in other areas of the globe. However, the two World Wars resulting from nationalism greatly reduced the European powers and effected the disruption of Europe.Chapter Five is on one of the stream of thoughts and the campaign of integration in European history. The idea of an integrated Europe came into existence as a consequence of rational cognition of the European people in the ethno-national process. This idea first appeared in medieval Europe, but became an influential social stream of thoughts when nationalism began to rise. The wars in the twentieth centurystimulated the European people to struggle for peace and the popularization of the idea of an allied Europe, and produced appropriate social disputation. Therefore, European integration actually is a development from conception to social practice.Chapter Six is on European integration process and its enlightenment. After the Second World War, European integration began its hard evolution in European reconstruction. Up till now, its development might be divided into two stages, European Common Community and European Union. The clashes between different nations make the process of European integration complicated, and the disproportionate developments in different European areas make the Eastern Expansion Movement difficult. As European integration deepens and broadens the previous problems, there exists the urgency of continuously seeking to build and complete the system of European...