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European Integration Lecture 8—Europe’s Current and Future Prospects Justifying European Political Integration Sovereignty
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European Politics Today Short Term (i) Ratifying the Reform Treaty (ii) Managing European Enlargement (iii) Europe’s “delivery deficit” (iv) Regional Security (a) Russia (b) Former Yugoslavia
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European Politics Tomorrow (i) Managing Globalization (ii) Demographic Decline (iii) Social and welfare reform (iv) Civic Integration (v) Great Power rivalry (vi) Global Warming/Energy dependence
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Justifying European Integration (i) The fact of reasonable disagreement (ii) A democratic standard of justification (a) requirement of publicity (b) requirement of accessibility © requirement of sufficiency
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Political Functions (i) Security (ii) Wealth—necessities and conveniences of life (iii) Democracy (iv) Identity
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Sovereignty A state is sovereign when: (i) it enjoys full authority internally; (ii) it is not subject to the authority of another state.
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Sovereignty as Organized Hypocrisy (i) Sovereignty as ordering principle of international society. (ii) Sovereignty as a status (iii) Sovereignty as a set of rights, powers and privileges.
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