EU sovereignty Flashcards
What has Sassan said about the state?
sovereignty has been decentered and territory partly denationalised
What have many scholars, particularly in GER said about the state?
Both nationality and sovereignty have become obsolete
What is Weber’s classic definition of sovereignty?
A human community with a monopoly over the the legitimate use of force in a given territory
What is the problem with Weber’s definition of sovereignty?
It reduces the state to the coercive apparatus of government
What theories have traditionally dominated the field of IR?
State-centric theories
How did Liberal internationalist theorists challenge the state-centric approach to IR in the 1970s and 80s?
State sovereignty being eroded by:
- economic interdependence
- global technologies
- democratic politics
What do realists say about trans-border flows?
Can only exist with states’ consent. Waltz uses cold war lack of interdependence of US/USSR to show this
What compromised W EUR sovereignty before EEC?
- American administration of the Marshall plan
- Security through NATO
What made W EUR accept GER more?
It’s potential loss of sovereignty through NATO, ECSC etc
Whose resignation gave the potential for greater integration in the 1late 960s
De Gaulle who had caused the Luxembourg compromise
What stopped further integration plans in the 70s?
- Effect of Vietnam war on world economy
- Suspension of dollar convertibility
- Huge rise in cost of oil and raw materials
Who called the period between 66 and 85 the dark ages of European integration?
HOFFMAN
What happened in the Dark Ages though?
Huge amount of shared policy making and shared sovereignty developments outside of the EU.
Brought into the body in the treaties of Maastricht and Amsterdam
What part of the US in W Eur comparable to in size?
NE corner of USA
What is the population of W EUR?
300 mil
What supposedly led to the Schengen agreement?
1984 French truck drivers strike.
Stopped the elites of Paris and Brussels getting to Alps for Winter sports season
