“…These struggles finally (but not in their finality ) resulted in a very complex structure of intertwined international organizations in which central functions or forms of state power (defense, human rights, parliamentary representation, bureaucratic, and legal market regulation) were dislocated and reallocated to specific organizations (the Western European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Council of Europe, the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Economic 2. For a good review of this literature followed by insightful research perspectives, see Dulong (2001). Community), or even to specific institutions within these organizations (bureaucratic market regulation fell to the European Commission, whereas judicial market regulation fell to the European Court of Justice). This dislocation occurred, however, after the first attempt to unify the divided institutions of the united Europe failed in 1954.…”