CIAO DATE: 12/5/2007

Metaphors Europe Lives by: Language and Institutional Change of the European Union

Petr Drulak

2007

Institute of International Relations Prague

Abstract

This paper develops a discourse analytical framework for addressing international relations and European integration from a constructivist perspective.1 It focuses on the role metaphors have in the international discourse treating them as both enabling and constraining conditions for the international practice. I apply the framework to the study of institutional change in the European Union analysing speeches of European leaders who contributed to the EU finality debate.

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