Three Models of Integration
In André-Paul Frognier & Irina Kolotouchkina (eds.),
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2005)
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Abstract
The purpose of the article is to show major contradictions between the federal concept of Europe that can be found in J. Habermas’s theory, confederative vision of E - W Böckenförde and A. Giddens’s theory of globalization. In this context I try to analyze the relationship between democracy and the national state. I focus also on the problem of the consequences of globalization (economical and political) that may go in two different directions by facilitating and hampering European integration. Finally, I sketch the Habermas’s federal conception of Europe and discuss the main of the European Union problems.