A FRAYING UNION

A FRAYING UNION

[...]the EU is not a state, and even if it collapses, maps would look the same. [...]the EU's disintegration would not necessarily mean that its member states would cease to be market-based democracies, or that all forms of cooperation among European countries-including even some common institu...

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Published in:Journal of democracy Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 23 - 30
Main Author: Krastev, Ivan
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01-10-2012
Subjects:
Accession
Central Government
Civil Society
Conceptualization
Democracy
Disintegration
Europe
European Union
Expectations
Geopolitics
Markets
Mobilization
Political parties
Politics
Unions
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics > USSR
Europe
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Summary:[...]the EU is not a state, and even if it collapses, maps would look the same. [...]the EU's disintegration would not necessarily mean that its member states would cease to be market-based democracies, or that all forms of cooperation among European countries-including even some common institutions-would disappear. [...]virtually all "ethnics," including even or especially the German speakers, turned against the center, which however dynastic and traditional, was finally only able to rely on the support of the new men: the commercial, industrial, academic and professional meritocrats, interested in maintaining an open market of goods, men and ideas and universalistic open society.4 In the cases of the Soviet Union and Tito's Yugoslavia, communist federations fell victim not only to their own structural weaknesses but to explosions of popular national and democratic aspirations.
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ISSN:1045-5736
1086-3214
DOI:10.1353/jod.2012.0064