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The EU: A Cosmopolitan Vanguard?

Published/Copyright: April 18, 2009
Global Jurist
From the journal Global Jurist Volume 9 Issue 1

How to institutionalize human rights correctly under conditions of globalization? Through establishing autonomous powerful institutions the states of the conflict-ridden European continent have domesticated international relations among themselves. However, juridification and executive dominance prevails and the lingering question is whether the ensuing order can be legitimate. This is examined with regard to the recent attempts to bring basic rights and democracy to bear on the European Union. Neither the Charter nor the Constitutional Convention indicated that the EU would develop into a democratic state. The EU is not a nation, nor is it a state. Rather it can be seen as a regional cosmopolitan entity. The multilevel constellation that makes up the EU can amount to a governmental structure in which supranational authorities monitor the conduct of lower levels on the basis of a set of normative principles.

Keywords: juridification; cosmopolitanism; democracy; European Union; Constitutional Treaty
Published Online: 2009-4-18

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https://doi.org/10.2202/1934-2640.1304
Keywords for this article
juridification; cosmopolitanism; democracy; European Union; Constitutional Treaty

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Topics Article
  2. Passports in the Twenty-First Century
  3. Implementing Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration in the Republic of Cuba
  4. Unexpected Insider Trading Abuses and the Need for Revision of Rule 10b5-1(c)
  5. Frontiers Article
  6. When National Actors Become Transnational: Transjudicial Dialogue between Democracy and Constitutionalism
  7. Advances Article
  8. What the Rest Think of the West - Legal Dimensions
  9. The EU: A Cosmopolitan Vanguard?
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