History of mentalities (the history of the concept of Europe), Concept of Culture, Corpus linguistics (discourse analysis), Critique of civilisation (starting with Rousseau) (barbarianism, The history of the concept of civilization), Culture and Society, Democracy and Citizens, Globalisation (transnational movements), Identity (European identity), Ideology and attitudes (European ideologies), Intellectual history of the nation and welfare state, Meeting of cultures (Europe and its others, theories on cultural encounters), Nationalism (The conceptual history of nationalism), Philosophers, Political history (The history of European democracy), Structuralism (discourse theory), Theories of democracy