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Ian Manners, foto.

Ian Manners

Professor

Ian Manners, foto.

European communion : political theory of European union

Författare

  • Ian Manners

Summary, in English

Political theory of European union, through an engagement between political concepts and theoretical understandings, provides a means of identifying the EU as a political object. It is argued that understanding the projects, processes and products of European union, based on ‘sharing’ or ‘communion’, provides a better means of perceiving the EU as a political object rather than terms such as ‘integration’ or ‘co-operation’. The concept of ‘European communion’ is defined as the ‘subjective sharing of relationships’, understood as the extent to which individuals or groups believe themselves to be sharing relations (or not), and the consequences of these beliefs for European political projects, processes and products. By exploring European communion through an engagement with contemporary political theory, using very brief illustrations from the Treaty of Lisbon, the article also suggests that European communion embraces three different readings of the EU as a political object – the EU as a constellation of communities; as a cosmopolitan space; and as an example of cosmopolitical co-existence. In other words, the political object of European union may be identified as sharing ‘European communion’.

Publiceringsår

2013-04-03

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

473-494

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of European Public Policy

Volym

20

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Taylor & Francis

Ämne

  • Political Science

Nyckelord

  • European communion
  • communion
  • political theory
  • European Union
  • European integration
  • cosmopolitical

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1350-1763