A União Européia: uma comunidade em construção

Camargo, Sonia de

doi:10.1590/s0102-85292008000200006

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“…It is easy to show how such constructions of the European example can be recurrently found in the literature (Camargo, 2008;Malmoud and Schmitter, 2006). To illustrate the operation of the logic, let us briefly consider two examples.…”

Section: The Logic Of the Example: Encore Une Chance Pour L'europe?mentioning

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Civil Society and the Globalisation of Locality between Latin America and Europe: Integration as a Case of Agonistic Cosmopolitics

Burity

2012

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Two aspects are addressed here of a critical perspective on issues of integration, in which the EU features as a model and a counterpart to South American processes: a) representations of cosmopolitan engagement in issues of development, rights and cultural identity; b) participation in attempts to promote alternative forms of global governance. Discourses of civil society activism and its global networks and participation in international forums thereby enact an agonistic cosmopolitics where Europe appears as both model and adversary. Derrida's logic of exemplarity is introduced to illustrate this point, in contrast to intellectual responses from Latin America emphasising globally connected localities -i.e. reconstructions of traditional ideas and signs of new discourses of community, religion and cultural identity as political resources. Such globalised localisms reconfigure historically crystallised forms of "influence" of Europe on Latin America, problematise notions of cosmopolitanism, and contest representations of both identities and their historical links.

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Section: The Logic Of the Example: Encore Une Chance Pour L'europe?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Civil Society and the Globalisation of Locality between Latin America and Europe: Integration as a Case of Agonistic Cosmopolitics

Burity

2012

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“…In spite of a general inspiration from European regionalism and some structural similarities with the EU (Camargo 1999;Medeiros 2000), Mercosur is an intergovernmental organization. Its main goals are the creation of a common market, the promotion of social and economic development and the maintenance of democracy within member-states.…”

Section: Regionalism In South America and The Rise Of Parlasurmentioning

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At What Point does a Legislature Become Institutionalized? the Mercosur Parliament's Path

Dri

2009

Bras. political sci. rev.

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The Mercosur Parliament was created in 2005 to represent the peoples of the region. The constitutive documents affirm the necessity of reinforcing and deepening integration and democracy within Mercosur through an efficient and balanced institutional structure. In order to examine the potential role of the Parliament in strengthening the institutional framework of the bloc, this paper aims to analyse its initial years of activity. What is the institutionalization level reached by the assembly so far? The research is grounded on the idea that the more institutionalized the legislature is, the more it will influence the political system. The article presents a comparative approach that considers the earliest steps of the European Parliament. In terms of methodology, the qualitative analysis is based on documental research and on direct observation of the Mercosur Parliament's meetings. The main conclusions are related to the limited level of institutionalization of this new assembly, in spite of its innovative features regarding the Mercosur structure, and to its similarity with the initial period of the European Parliament.

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“…The European defense initiative, debated through 1953 and '54, and finally ratified by five of the states comprised in the "Europe of Six," nonetheless fell short of approval due to its rejection by the French National Assembly, which saw it as manifestly federalist in inspiration. This failure put off for some years the idea of forming a political community, creating an opening for the immediate realization of an economic objective -the only one around which there was consensus -pointing in the direction of a common market, rationalizing production and bringing greater welfare to the population and thereby consolidating the project for the establishment of an economic and monetary community (Camargo 1999).…”

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Europe Debates Its Destiny

Camargo

2007

Bras. political sci. rev.

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In this article, I propose to examine the issue that at present most mobilizes the European states and public opinion within them: the modification of the institutional-political model, in the form of a Constitutional Treaty for Europe, requiring parliamentary or popular ratification by its twenty-five member States, within a period that remains undecided. Events surrounding the consultation proposed to the European governments and their citizens, indicate -particularly if we take into account the negative votes in France and Holland, and others that may yet occur -that the European Union is divided, raising the concern that its process of regional integration could suffer interruption or even reversal. My analysis of the reasons European citizens and European states find themselves divided, with emphasis on those that separate the bureaucracy in Brussels from the EU's citizens and national governments, will revolve on two basic axes: the enlargement of the EU, recently grown from fifteen states to twenty-five, and the transformation of the EU's political-institutional model, which in securing itself to a constitutional anchor modifies both symbolically and substantively the degrees of sovereignty and autonomy of Europe's numerous political actors. So doing, this analysis will seek support in theoretical currents that, stimulated by the importance and singularity of the process of European construction, have been brought to bear on the examination of the political instruments and procedures involved, their determinants, and their consequences. Beginning with the matter of enlargement, this article will look at the recurrent problems arising from admission of the ten new member countries from the Center and East of the continent -that is, the "other Europe" -formally incorporated in May 2004, and at the decisive weight this had in the decision to formulate a Constitution for Europe. Arriving thus at my second topic, I will reconstruct the debate between a "Europe-Union of States" and a "Super-State Europe," discussing issues directly connected to this classic dichotomy -democracy, legitimacy, formation of a collective identity, division of sovereignty, and others -which, having direct impact on European citizens, will determine the acceptance or rejection of what is being proposed to them in the Constitutional Treaty.

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A União Européia: uma comunidade em construção

Cited by 5 publications

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Civil Society and the Globalisation of Locality between Latin America and Europe: Integration as a Case of Agonistic Cosmopolitics

Civil Society and the Globalisation of Locality between Latin America and Europe: Integration as a Case of Agonistic Cosmopolitics

At What Point does a Legislature Become Institutionalized? the Mercosur Parliament's Path

Europe Debates Its Destiny

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