Collective Identity and Democracy in the Enlarging Europe

Magdalena Góra is Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies at Jagiellonian University, Kraków (Poland). Her academic interests include processes of collective identity formation in the context of EU enlargement, the European Union as an actor in international relations, contemporary Polish foreign policy, and Polish-Jewish and Polish-Israeli relations. Zdzislaw Mach is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute of European Studies at Jagiellonian University, Kraków. His research interests are identity issues such as nationalism, minorities and ethnicity, the development of European citizenship, migration and the reconstruction of identity, the ethnic origin of nation and the construction of identities, as well as the development of the idea of Europe. Katarzyna Zielinska is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Sociology and International Programmes Coordinator at the Institute of European Studies at Jagiellonian University, Kraków. Her academic interests include gender issues in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the intersection of religion and politics in modern democratic societies.