The Schuman Declaration

Schuman, R.P.

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“…Arguably, a similar logic played out at a European level. Indeed, this link between the establishment of markets and the preservation of order and peace was acknowledged and promoted in the 1950s by the founding fathers of the European Communities, whose promotion of a common market was part of a broader process of promoting prosperity and a sustainable peace among previously warring nations (Duchêne, 1996;Monnet, 1976;Schuman, 1950). Whereas certain 'founding fathers', such as Monnet and Schuman, appeared to foresee something like a gradual 'spillover' from an economic liberal to a social contractarian or legal liberal logic at the supranational level (even a European federal state), from an ordoliberal perspective the reinvention of a Westphalian reality -the reinvention of social contractarian values beyond the nation-state -was something to be approached with caution.…”

Section: An Ambiguous Cosmopolitics In/for Europementioning

confidence: 98%

‘Normative power Europe’ meets economic liberalism: Complicating cosmopolitanism inside/outside the EU

Parker¹,

Rosamond

2013

Cooperation and Conflict

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This article offers a reading of 'normative power Europe' (NPE) suggesting that the concept has been used for two distinct purposes: as a distinctive ontological characterisation of the EU, on the one hand, and as a critical approach to the study of the EU and its external projection, on the other. These positions are labelled 'NPE ontological reality' (NPE-OR) and 'NPE critical ontology' (NPE-CO), respectively, and this article sets out to show how they might work together in practice, even if they are incommensurable in theory. It is argued that NPE's ethico-political value resides in the extent that it embodies an ontologically plural reality, never entirely defined. By drawing attention to a blind-spot in the NPE position -the constitutive importance of economic liberalism ('market cosmopolitanism') to the EU's post-Westphalian character -attention is drawn to the normative basis of market cosmopolitanism and its connections to NPE-OR are described. It is argued that, from an NPE-CO perspective, we should exercise caution in celebrating NPE-OR as post-Westphalian reality to the extent that it is rooted in a market cosmopolitics.

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Section: An Ambiguous Cosmopolitics In/for Europementioning

confidence: 98%

‘Normative power Europe’ meets economic liberalism: Complicating cosmopolitanism inside/outside the EU

Parker¹,

Rosamond

2013

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…While it can be argued that the construction of a European identity by the European institutions thereby became more intentional and focused than previously, it is important to remember that the idea of European integration from the very beginning entailed the linking of industrial‐economic methods with grander ethico‐political goals. As it was publicly presented in the Schuman Declaration of 1950, the European Coal and Steel Community—instituting a supranational integration of exactly those industries traditionally crucial to a nation‐state’s capacities for waging war—ultimately aimed at nothing less than to make war “not merely unthinkable, but materially impossible” (Schuman, , p.13).…”

Section: Europe’s Peace Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

Psychoanalyzing Europe? Political Enjoyment and European Identity

Kølvraa

2018

Political Psychology

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This article seeks to discuss and illustrate how employing theoretical elements and interpretative frames from Lacanian psychoanalysis might help to conceptualize and analyze the affective dimension of European identity. European identity, as constructed in the discourses of European institutions, is believed to be crucial in legitimating the political project of European integration. It is argued that in order to understand how "desire" and jouissance ("enjoyment") are active in this construction of European identity, we need to focus on the plotlines of the dominant narrative about Europe as articulated in official discourses. Using such an approach, I show that the EU's preferred construction of a European identity, which narrates the EU as a grand peace project, is structured around the sacrifice of "national" jouissance, which in turn becomes a site of political enjoyment through the mediation of an external gaze.

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“…Such an outcome would seem to confirm Jean Monnet's sentiment, expressed by Robert Schuman in his Declaration establishing the European Coal and Steel Community, that European federation would be achieved via concrete steps rather than abstract statements of intent. 43 Could the Eurozone debt crisis that began in 2010 be the 'constitutional moment' that the EU has hitherto lacked? 44 Could it be the emergency that forges solidarity between European peoples and states, forcing the former to abandon apathy and parochialism and the latter their pretensions to national sovereignty in the face of the global markets?…”

Section: A New Post-post-lisbon Treaty Settlement? Eu Constitutionamentioning

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EU Constitutionalism in Flux: Is the Eurozone Crisis Precipitating Centralisation or Diffusion?

Scicluna

2012

European Law Journal

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The Lisbon Treaty was supposed to mark the end of an almost‐decade‐long period of treaty reform. After the tumult of the failed Constitutional Treaty, the settlement it imposed struck a sustainable balance between the competing forces of centralisation and the diffusion that characterise European integration. Yet this constitutional settlement is now threatened by the Eurozone debt crisis and official responses to it, most notably the proposed fiscal compact. A prevalent view regards the crisis as an opportunity to complete the process of political and economic union that the Maastricht Treaty began. However, this article cautions against such a view, which would jettison the post‐Lisbon Treaty constitutional settlement in favour a peculiar kind of German‐led, intergovernmental centralisation. Whether the crisis response measures achieve their stated aims remains to be seen, but the integration project will be reconfigured in the process. Thus, EU constitutionalism is bound to remain in a state of flux.

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The Schuman Declaration

Cited by 11 publications

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‘Normative power Europe’ meets economic liberalism: Complicating cosmopolitanism inside/outside the EU

‘Normative power Europe’ meets economic liberalism: Complicating cosmopolitanism inside/outside the EU

Psychoanalyzing Europe? Political Enjoyment and European Identity

EU Constitutionalism in Flux: Is the Eurozone Crisis Precipitating Centralisation or Diffusion?

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