Autonomy or Domination? Two Faces of Differentiated Integration
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Lord, C
Document Type
Journal Article
Date
2021-09-01
Date Accepted
2021-09-01
Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>When is differentiated integration (DI) of the European Union a source of autonomy and when is it a source of domination? Much depends on what collective goods member state democracies seek through integration. Club goods often require member state democracies to form DIs of their choice. Public goods and common resource goods may, in contrast, require limits on DI if member state democracies are to meet their own obligations to their own publics to secure rights, justice, non‐domination and democracy itself. Those differences are important to understanding how European democracies should be ‘internationally ordered’ if they are to sustain internal forms of political autonomy. They also demonstrate the importance of DI to the autonomy of member state democracies in associating together beyond the state; in defining obligations within the state; and in securing the greatest autonomy of each European democracy compatible with the greatest possible autonomy of all European democracies.</jats:p>
Citation
Swiss Political Science Review, 2021, 27 (3), pp. 546 - 562
Source Title
Swiss Political Science Review
Publisher
WILEY
ISSN
1424-7755
eISSN
1662-6370
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Precision Oncology Lord