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Europe and the Globe - Two Perspectives Sovereigntist Perspective Globally resilient framework still influential upon the EU Governance Perspective Alternative perspective the EU a key source Sovereigntist Perspective (inside the

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Europe and the Globe - Two Perspectives

Sovereigntist Perspective

Globally resilient framework – still influential upon the EU

Governance Perspective

Alternative perspective – the EU a key source

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Sovereigntist Perspective (inside the EU)

‘compendious legal external sovereignty towards rest of

the world’ (MacCormick) . The same quantum of sovereignty

BUT new internal distribution of that sovereignty
AND new allocation of external sovereign title on the basis
f new internal distribution

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Four approaches to sovereignty within the EU

Aggregative (still state-centred)
Consolidated (and elevated to the supranational level)
Compound (split between state and supranational levels)
Redundant (‘splitting of atom’ means sovereign no longer)

Contest maps onto different insider views of EU (internal and external) competence over ‘high’ and ‘low’ politics

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EU sovereignty viewed from the outside

Tendency to view the EU as a ‘compound’ entity in

sovereign terms BUT

Objective difficulties - must confront substantive and

institutional complexity and associated uncertainty and controversy (e.g. mixed agreements, variable ‘membership’ of international organisations)

Attitudinal unease – the EU viewed as having the influence
f a single large player without the cross-sectoral cohesion
r clear lines of accountability

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Re-imagining the World – the Governance approach

‘Environmental’ or ‘milieu’ goals over

‘possession’ goals

Collective over unilateral action
Stably institutionalized systems of regulation
ver discrete interventions

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Consequences of absence of ‘normal’ sovereignty conditions

Fewer ‘hard’ material possessions to defend
No existential threat to basic unit of political community
Pedigree of collective negotiation
Lack of security infrastructure to back unilateral action
Less concerned about fettering its discretion through long-

term institutional commitment

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Modalities of Governance Approach

Content – pursuit of shared transnational and global public

goods

Method – multilateral and long-term. Expresses core

political values (e.g. democracy and rule of law) as well as preferred processes

Form - self-cloning - ‘enmeshment’ as paradigmatic

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Clash of two Imaginaries – Some Questions

Is the EU global catalyst for new ‘governance’ approach,
r just surfing the trend?
To the extent that it is the prime mover, tension between

unilateral assumption and multilateral vision. (Europe as Empire, Europe as Cosmopolis?)

How have the governance and sovereigntist views been

reconciled?

How are they likely to be reconciled and disseminated in