Engineering European Unity

The Quest for the Right Solution Across Centuries

By: Eva Boka

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Hardcover | 27 December 2022 | Edition Number 1

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Which European and non-European ideas and practices facilitated the shaping of European unity? Or rather, which pursuits led to deadlocks in the cooperation between states?

The book seeks answers to these questions by surveying the historical attempts at realizing supranational patterns of governance in Europe since the Middle Ages. The main focus is on the nineteenth and twentieth century organizational models of European unification.

The analysis draws on an abundance of historical and legal source material. While the author encourages critical thinking about European integration, the exploration is admittedly based on specific values. va B ka claims that the struggle for the humanization of power with its democratic creative force has been the major driver in the development of the system of liberties and the idea of European unity. The analysis of the historical process up to the Lisbon Treaty (2007) with the recognition of common, shared, and supported competences meets the author's set of values to a great extent. The last part of the book examines whether the European Union can serve as a political and economic organizational model for other parts of the world.

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"This is an intellectual history of plans for creating institutions to implement the idea of a European unity. B?ka does not focus on the history of the idea of Europe or the idea of European unity but rather lists and compares the plans for institutions that were developed since the Middle Ages to realize supranational forms of governance in Europe. This survey is rich and goes into many lesser known details. The analytical point in evaluating the plans is to what extent they could, or - if they were never implemented, according to the assessment of the author - could have guaranteed a Europe-wide functioning of the Western system of liberties. This book teaches us a highly topical lesson about the limits and possibilities of constructing institutions of European integration."

--Attila P?k

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