PART I: RETHINKING THE PUBLIC SPHERE: BEYOND THE NATIONAL ARENA? 1. Struggling with the Concept of a Public Sphere; Klaus Eder 2. The Counterfactual Imagination Punctuated by Triple Contingency: On Klaus Eder's Theory of the New Public Sphere; Piet Strydom 3. Ambivalent Representations of Collective Identity: Heroes, Victims, Perpetrators; Bernhard Giesen 4. Beyond the Political Mythology of the Westphalian World Order: Religion, Communicative Action, and the Transnationalization of the Public Sphere; Armando Salvatore 5. Social Movements and the Public Sphere; Donatella della Porta PART II: BETWEEN EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP AND TRANSNATIONAL COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES 6. Europe's Search for an Attentive Public: Evidence, Prospects, and Prognoses; Paul Statham and Ruud Koopmans 7. Towards Pan-European Contentions? European Integration and its Effects on Political Mobilization; Christian Lahusen 8. Towards an Anthropology of the European Union. Insights from Greece; Anna Triandafyllidou, Hara Kouki, and Ruby Gropas 9. Climate Change as a Rhetorical Resource and Masterframe. An Analysis of the Daily Press Coverage and Public Opinion in Italy; Lorenzo Beltrame, Massimiano Bucchi, Barbara Mattè PART III: INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION: ADDRESSING THE CULTURAL OTHER IN EUROPE 10. Differentiation of Migration Patterns in Europe. Social Integration Amidst Competing Societal Leitbilder of Enclosure of the Other, Acceptance and Encouragement of Migration; Roland Verwiebe, Laura Wiesböck, and Roland Teitzer 11. The 'New Germany' and Its Transformation Process: Narrating Collective Identity in Times of Transnational Mobilit; Naika Foroutan 12. Jews and Turks in Germany: Immigrant Integration, Political Representation, and Minority Rights; Gökçe Yurdakul 13. Towards a Cosmopolitan and Inclusive European Identity? Negotiating Immigrants' Inclusion and Exclusion in the New Europe; Oliver Schmidtke