Bulletin n. 1/2012
June 2012
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
    • Christopher J. Bickerton
    Crisis in the Eurozone: Transnational governance and national power in European integration
    in Political Geography , volume 30 n.8 ,  2011 ,  415-416
    This editorial argues that a transnational space of economic governance in Europe is indeed in the making. Yet this has the effect of empowering national governments, not weakening them. It does this in twoways. Firstly, it empowers those governments most likely to shape the content of the new transnational governance institutions, namely France and Germany. Secondly, it empowers all Eurozone national governments – large and small – by insulating them from the challenges they face from their own domestic populations. These developments alert us to the limits of traditional theories of European integration that present trade-offs between transnational governance and national power. We should rather focus our attention on ways in which transnational governance can strengthen national power but at the expense of national democracy.
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