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| Title: | | Europe: Political, not cosmopolitan  |
| Authors: | | Somek, Alexander |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper, WZB Rule of Law Center SP IV 2011-803 |
| Abstract: | | The article challenges the established view according to which the authority of the European Union is inexplicable in terms of collective self-determination. Contrary to this widely held belief, it explains the condition under which it is plausible to impute the current shape of the Union to the collective self-determination of European citizens. This condition is met if citizens approach the Union with a cosmopolitan attitude. The article then goes on to explain that while the Union may not appear optimal under this condition it looks quite disastrous when approached from the perspective of political selfdetermination. The argument makes an appeal to European citizens. They have to come to grips with their own self-understanding. Should European citizens come to realize that they are, after all, political beings because they care about sustaining a form of life at specific place of the world, they will have to re-appropriate Europe for themselves. |
| Subjects: | | European Union collective self-determination European citizens cosmopolitan political self-determination |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des WZB Discussion Papers, WZB Rule of Law Center, WZB
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