1. European Integration  Lecture 8—Europe’s Current and Future Prospects  Justifying European Political Integration  Sovereignty

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Political Functions  (i) Security  (ii) Wealth—necessities and conveniences of life  (iii) Democracy  (iv) Identity

6. Sovereignty  A state is sovereign when:  (i) it enjoys full authority internally;  (ii) it is not subject to the authority of another state.

7. 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.