Thanks for the second text as well. Exciting topics and insights as regarding governance concerning global and regional development.
My experience among world federalists, as in Democracy Without Borders, is that the EU is seen as an inspiration and model for uniting and governing the planet as a whole. Do you have a similar experience and thoughts?
I am not even a European federalist. I am against the idea of a global government, because I am very suspicious of the executive branch. But international informal coordination (the Basel Accords for example) and legislative/judicial confederacions are good in themselves, even if they never deepen into a common sovereignity.
The three articles of "Post American Europe" are now available:
In the first article, I examine the historical roots of the European Union (EU): Europe was an ecology of competing, often warring jurisdictions that, after the Second World War, were integrated into the American Pax Democratica. Our generational challenge is to maintain the greatest American legacy: the EU.
In the second article, the complex governance of the EU is characterised as a nomocracy, a harmonising and consociational confederacy which is less efficient but more robust than the other large international actors. Minimalistic institutional reform is proposed to strengthen European democracies in the age of populism.
The final instalment proposes policies to address technological dependency and the foreign policy stance of the post-American Europe: technological sovereignty, competition reform, and a renewed liberal order in Europe's near abroad:
Thanks for the second text as well. Exciting topics and insights as regarding governance concerning global and regional development.
My experience among world federalists, as in Democracy Without Borders, is that the EU is seen as an inspiration and model for uniting and governing the planet as a whole. Do you have a similar experience and thoughts?
I am not even a European federalist. I am against the idea of a global government, because I am very suspicious of the executive branch. But international informal coordination (the Basel Accords for example) and legislative/judicial confederacions are good in themselves, even if they never deepen into a common sovereignity.
The three articles of "Post American Europe" are now available:
In the first article, I examine the historical roots of the European Union (EU): Europe was an ecology of competing, often warring jurisdictions that, after the Second World War, were integrated into the American Pax Democratica. Our generational challenge is to maintain the greatest American legacy: the EU.
https://www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/post-american-europe-historical-roots-eu-integration?r=biy76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
In the second article, the complex governance of the EU is characterised as a nomocracy, a harmonising and consociational confederacy which is less efficient but more robust than the other large international actors. Minimalistic institutional reform is proposed to strengthen European democracies in the age of populism.
https://www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/post-american-europe-eu-rule-based-democracy-authoritarianism?r=biy76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
The final instalment proposes policies to address technological dependency and the foreign policy stance of the post-American Europe: technological sovereignty, competition reform, and a renewed liberal order in Europe's near abroad:
https://www.frenchdispatch.eu/p/post-american-europe-eu-technological-sovereignty-liberal-order?r=biy76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false