The Distinct Nature of the European Union

This article aims to examine the distinct nature of the European Union (eu), specifically from a neo-Calvinist perspective. While Herman Dooyeweerd makes a distinction between a state and an international organisation, namely the United Nations (un), within his radical type of juridically qualified...

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Publié dans:Philosophia reformata
Auteur principal: Luitwieler, Sander 1978- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2015
Dans: Philosophia reformata
RelBib Classification:KAJ Époque contemporaine
KBA Europe de l'Ouest
KDD Église protestante
VA Philosophie
ZC Politique en général
Sujets non-standardisés:B EU European integration coercion legitimacy state, nation neo-Calvinism Dooyeweerd Chaplin
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé:This article aims to examine the distinct nature of the European Union (eu), specifically from a neo-Calvinist perspective. While Herman Dooyeweerd makes a distinction between a state and an international organisation, namely the United Nations (un), within his radical type of juridically qualified societal structures, he mainly deals with the state in his work. This article considers whether Jonathan Chaplin’s critique of Dooyeweerd’s distinction, focusing on coercion and legitimacy in the context of the un, may be helpful to establish the nature of the eu. In addition, it introduces another distinction to this end, namely between the state as a political community and the nation as a cultural community. This distinction suggests the need to think about an additional category in between an inter-communal relationship and a community: the eu as a “community of peoples”.
ISSN:2352-8230
Contient:In: Philosophia reformata
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/23528230-08001006