1. This article presents results from a research project on the Europeanization of nation state identities in France, Germany and Great Britain which has been funded by the German Research Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the European University Institute, Florence. We thank Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Diez, John A. Hall, Ulf Hedetoft, Iver B. Neumann, Bo Strath, Antje Wiener, Mette ZØlner, the participants in the panel 'Identity and International Theory' at the Third Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Vienna, 16-19 September 1998, and the panel 'Social Constructivist Approaches to European Integration', ECSA, Pittsburgh, 2-5 June 1999, as well as two anonymous JEPP referees for their many comments on earlier versions.
2. Quoted from Le Monde, 4 September 1992.
3. Jacques Chirac, Liberation, 11 September 1992.
4. Political guidelines adopted at the Hanover Party Congress, May 1946.
5. The quote from Sir Stafford Cripps, House of Commons debate on the Schuman Plan, 26 June 1950, cols 1946-50; the quote from John Major: 'Raise your eyes, there is a land beyond', The Economist, 25 September- 1 October 1993, p. 27.