Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Diop Pathé
    La souveraineté, pierre d’achoppement pour une fédération politique européenne
    in Europe en formation (L') , n. 363, 2012/1 ,  2012 ,  63-71
    European integration is an object of studies receiving a growing interest from different fields of political science. Theoretical approaches based on international relations are the more often used to investigate that object. Among them, neofunctionalism plays an important role, as a theoretical as well as practical approach of the European integration. However, evading the notion of sovereignty, as it is the case with neofunctionalism in the perspective of federalism, is called into question through the uprising of crises which prove the persistence of sovereignty. The federalist legal paradigm has reified the notion of sovereignty, and thus makes its political dimension unintelligible. Therefore, a reified conception of sovereignty is an obstacle to the reorientation of Europe into a political federation. Eventually, the best way to prevent that obstacle is to consider federalism within the international relations realist paradigm.
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