Introduction

Stefan Schepers and Andrew Kakabadse
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Stefan Schepers: EPPA
Andrew Kakabadse: Henley Business School

A chapter in Rethinking the Future of Europe, 2014, pp 1-9 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1953, the famous Polish poet and diplomat Czeslaw Milosz published ‘The Captive Mind’ and portrayed how European intellectuals became admiringly captive to systems thinking against all opposing facts. Around the same time, others such as Raymond Aron and Karl Popper voiced similar concerns. The writing was about communism. The warning in these books which can be applied to all ‘-isms’ is ‘keep an open and independent mind’, a message which is as relevant to the Europeans of then as of those today.

Keywords: Member State; European Project; Custom Union; Soft Power; Political Integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137024015_1

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