Bullettin n. 1/2011
June 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Anton Pelinka
    The European Union as an Alternative to the Nation-State
    in International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society , Volume 24, Numbers 1-2 ,  2011 ,  21-30
    The article describes the specific character of the European Union—its status as an unfinished federal quasi-state, the EU’s potential as one global actor among others and the motivation behind the ongoing process of integration, especially the EU’s antithetical character concerning nationalism. The article analyses the different theoretical approaches to explain why the Union has become what it is—and why it has not become a different entity. It also discusses the question of different interests promoting or opposing further integration. The basic argument is that the EU provides—in a period of declining state power—the possibility to reconstruct politics and government on a transnational level.
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