Bulletin n. 3/2011 | ||
February 2012 | ||
Brunkhorst Hauke |
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Solidarität in der Krise: Ist Europa am Ende? | ||
in Leviathan. Berliner Zeitschrift für Sozialwissenschaft , Volume 39, Number 4, December 2011 , 2011 , 459-477 | ||
Solidarity in crisis. Is this the end of a United Europe? The dialectic of the European constitutional revolutions has caught up with the European Union which today finds itself in the midst of its greatest crisis. The crisis is due not only to one of the greatest breakdowns in the history of the global economy, but also to the fascinating internal evolution of the European constitution since its beginning, shortly after World War II. Parallel to the growth of constitutional law, latent legitimation problems began to arise and grow cumulatively. However, once the big global banks, corporations and hedge-funds began a concerted attack on the European periphery and the Euro itself, the legitimation crisis manifested itself in full. | ||