Trapped in the Logic of the Modern State System? European Integration in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
Trapped in the Logic of the Modern State System? European Integration in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
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陷入现代国家体系的逻辑之中？
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2013
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A. B. Murphy
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在20世纪80年代中期的《单一欧洲法案》和一系列旨在促进欧洲更大一体化的后续举措之后，一些评论家开始将欧洲描述为一种真正新颖的政治-领土安排。然而，到20世纪90年代中期，采用共同货币开始主导欧洲一体化议程。接受货币联盟反映了欧洲一体化的观点，这种观点深深植根于现代领土国家制度的逻辑之中。这一逻辑使许多评论家从国家政府和经济机构向欧洲联盟中央决策机构转移权力的程度来看待一体化的成败。这种方法将欧盟塑造成一个超级国家，而不是一个新型的政治制度实体。因此，一体化计划对国家体系的颠覆性不如其他计划那么大--它强化了欧盟作为一个遥远的官僚机构的观点，没有充分满足欧洲人的日常需求，并助长了民族主义情绪：一股深深植根于现代主义领土秩序的社会力量。推进欧洲一体化进程可能需要接受与现代主义领土观念和假设联系较少的进步概念。
In the wake of the Single European Act of the mid-1980s and a series of follow-on initiatives aimed at fostering greater integration in Europe, a number of commentators began describing Europe as a truly novel political-territorial arrangement. By the middle of the 1990s, however, the adoption of a common currency came to dominate the European integration agenda. The embrace of monetary union reflected a view of European integration that was firmly embedded in the logic of the modern territorial state system. That logic led many commentators to view the success or failure of integration in terms of the degree to which powers were being transferred from state governmental and economic institutions to the central decision-making bodies of the European Union. Such an approach cast the EU as a super-state rather than as a new type of political-institutional entity. As a result, the integration project was less subversive of the state system than it might otherwise have been – bolstering the view of the European Union as a distant bureaucracy not adequately attuned to the needs of everyday Europeans and fueling nationalist sentiments: a social force with deep roots in the modernist territorial order. Moving the European integration process forward will likely require embracing conceptions of progress that are less tethered to modernist territorial ideas and assumptions.