1. FRQ:2 Supranationalism
TENDENCY FOR STATES TO GIVE UP POLITICAL POWER TO A HIGHER AUTHORITY IN PURSUIT OF COMMON OBJECTIVES (political, economic, military, environmental)
FRQ:2 Supranationalism
and
Devolution

2. SUPRANATIONALISM
Involves multiple national states (two or more) with a common goal.
Examples: European Union
NAFTA UN
NATO

3. DEVOLUTION Relinquishing of autonomy to internal units
Process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.
Breakup of a state (balkanization)

4. Examples of Devolution
Break up of a state
Yugoslavia / Balkans
Former U.S.S.R.
Czechoslavakia
Autstria-Hungary
Demand for autonomy
UK: Scotland, Wales, Ireland, N. Ireland
Spain: Basques, Catalonians
Italy: Padania, Tyrol
France: Corsica

6. EFFECTS OF SUPRANATIONALISM
Free Trade (reduced Tariffs) = economic prosperity
Common Currency
Open Borders for labor & tourists
Greater international influence
Greater political/eco power
More power to compete with economies of other countries

7. EFFECTS OF SUPRANATIONALISM
Loss of Control over individual policy
War is less likely
Common policy
Resources, agriculture, economic, environment, trade, military

8. EFFECTS OF DEVOLUTION Formation of new states More power to regions
Formation of new legislatures
Local control over policy
Local ethno-nationalism
Linguistic
Religious revival
Regional separatism

9. EFFECTS OF DEVOLUTION Political instability Economic instability
Civil war
Fighting
Hostility
Ethnic cleansing
Economic instability
Mass Migration
Refugees
emigration