Postnational Rulemaking, Compliance, and Justification: The New Europe

Sissenich, Beate

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“…Instead, he (Habermas, 2014: 12) calls on Europeans to “push for further political integration in order to extend their control over quasi-natural economic forces [to] recover a democratic balance between politics and the market.” Given the conditions of the late modern, globalized, multicultural world, Habermas is convinced that such a rebalancing between markets and peoples must occur beyond the nation-state. Following the transformations of 1989, he (Habermas, 1991b: 41) argues that “the basic issue around which the argument today revolves” regards the “international formula into which the social democratic aims of the social curbing of capitalism [is] bound to be generalized.” Building on this insight, he concludes that the peoples of Europe must further their “experiment with new forms of governance outside the nation-state” (Sissenich, 2008: 143) in order to confront international markets that have been able to dictate policy to sovereign states.…”

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Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics

Verovšek

2021

Political Studies

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Recent developments have highlighted the tension between democracy and late capitalist economics. In the wake of the Great Recession, international market forces have increasingly taken de facto control of politics. My basic thesis is that a modified version of Jürgen Habermas’ colonization thesis, which opposes the takeover of social and political life by the forces of power (administration) and money (economics), productively conceptualizes these developments. I argue that this framework can help to both diagnose and combat the dangers associated with the overexpansion of functional systemic forces, as well as the broader instrumentalization that they promote. By drawing on his political writings on the future of the European Union after the crisis of the Eurozone, I oppose interpretations of Habermas as a pacified liberal by demonstrating that he shares Karl Marx’s commitment to combatting naturalized views of economics and material reproduction as a force that lie outside of human control.

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Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics

Verovšek

2021

Political Studies

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The Immanent Potential of Economic and Monetary Integration: A Critical Reading of the Eurozone Crisis

Verovšek¹

2017

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The Eurozone crisis revealed fundamental flaws in the institutional architecture of the Economic and Monetary Union. Its lack of political steering capacity has demonstrated the need for a broad but seemingly unachievable political union with shared economic governance and a common treasury. Agreement on further measures has been difficult to achieve, as different actors have imposed divergent external criteria for the success of the Eurozone. As part of their heritage in Western Marxism, the critical theorists of the Frankfurt School sought to overcome such problems by identifying internal standards for social criticism. Building on their understanding of immanent critique, I argue that the Eurozone already contains the normative principles necessary to support greater political integration. While the citizens of Europe must provide the democratic legitimation necessary to realize this latent potential, the flaws revealed by the crisis are already pushing Europe towards greater transnational solidarity.

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Implementation without Coordination: The Impact of EU Conditionality on Ukraine under the European Neighbourhood Policy

Wolczuk

2009

Europe-Asia Studies

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Postnational Rulemaking, Compliance, and Justification: The New Europe

Cited by 3 publications

References 44 publications

Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics

Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics

The Immanent Potential of Economic and Monetary Integration: A Critical Reading of the Eurozone Crisis

Implementation without Coordination: The Impact of EU Conditionality on Ukraine under the European Neighbourhood Policy

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