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De-configuring the European Union: A comparative approach

Fossum, John Erik - ARENA - 2004

This article discusses the question of the EU's uniqueness. This issue is of particular importance when considered in relation to the nation-state. Uniqueness can then be considered as a case of departure from or transformation of the nation-state. The EU has emerged with a complex mixture of...

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Legitimacy Theories of the European Union

Føllesdal, Andreas - ARENA - 2004

"permissive consensus" by the public. The popular and legal challenges to the Maastricht Treaty questioned the legitimacy of … further integration.Normative political theory has responded to this legitimacy crisis by means of normative reasoning … of conceptions, mechanisms and objects of legitimacy. Section 4 presents a unifying perspective that may accommodate many …

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How the enlargement challenges the institutions - or the existence - of the European Economic Area

Sverdrup, Ulf - ARENA - 2005

could make the legitimacy and the fulfillment of the principal aims of the EEA more difficult. First, I argue that the …

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Reflexive Integration in Europe

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - ARENA - 2004

Integration may occur through coercion and intergovernmental bargaining - through blackmail, tradition, functional adaptation, copying, diffusion or exit - but it may also occur through reflexive reason-giving and entrenched commitments. The usefulness of such an approach to transnational and...

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