The European Union as a Model for the Development of Mercosur?

Transnational Orders between Economic Efficiency and Political Legitimacy
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-3-86618-112-0
Verlag: Edition Rainer Hampp

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 205 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Zentrum und Peripherie

It is rarely questioned that the European Union can be considered a model for other world regions. Comparable initiatives elsewhere are much less integrated, and up until now less successful, even if like Mercosur they are based on the European model. Although elements of the democratic rule of law in the EU are more developed than in all comparable projects and organisations, the model character of the EU is highly questionable in terms of democratic theory, and we should ask what scholars concerned with the European Union can learn from similar experiments in other world regions. Perhaps experience from the Mercosur countries with deliberative citizen democracy at the local level, the double perspective of the still ongoing transition from a 'nominalistic' to a 'normative' constitutional regime within nation states, and the simultaneous continental net-working of law, economics, and policy could also be instructive for the current EU with its new problems in the realm of democracy and rights. Transcontinen-tal social capital can only build-up if the learning processes are opened in both directions. The individual contributions to this volume move between the poles 'effectiveness' and 'democracy'. It is the result of an international workshop or-ganized by scholars from Flensburg University and from the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Sao Paulo.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matiaske, Wenzel

Brunkhorst, Hauke

Grözinger, Gerd

Neves, Marcelo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Zusammenarbeit (Recht, Kultur, Umwelt etc.)

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Wenzel Matiaske, International Institute for Management, University of Flensburg and German Institute for Economic Research/SOEP Berlin, Germany / Professor Hauke Brunkhorst, Director of the Institute for Sociology, University of Flensburg, Germany. / Professor Gerd Grözinger, Scientific Director at the Center for Educational Research, University of Flensburg, Germany. / Professor Marcelo Neves, Professor for Theory and Philosophy of Law at the Institute for Public Law Brasilia, Brasil.