Conference paper
Civitas civitatum or monstro simile? Prospects of National Sovereignity as Demonstrated by the Example of the European Union
Tilman Evers
; University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Abstract
The author portrays the crisis of national and state sovereignity in contemporary Europe, the consequence of economic and political integrational processes and the creation of new supranational institutions. The question is whether these supranational institutions can be democratically structured and if they can provide for the level of social integration which used to be secured by the national state. The most recent discussion have revolved around theoretical concepts of denationalized sovereignties, international legislation and asynchronous denationalization, which are indicative of the crisis of national sovereignty. Possible modes of the distribution of sovereign authorities amon various constituents have been developed based on an extremly interesting historical parallel between the institutional structure of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation in the pivotal years between 1495 to 1576 and the existing or proposed institutions of the European union. The prospects of the European Union, the author concludes, are not going to be determined or affected by the lack of democracy but by the lack of political efficiency and political unity.
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110554
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Publication date:
1.12.1994.
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