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Cosmopolitan Government in Europe - Citizens and Entrepreneurs in Postnational Politics (Paperback)
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Cosmopolitan Government in Europe - Citizens and Entrepreneurs in Postnational Politics (Paperback)
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The invocation of 'the market' has been omnipresent in media
discussions of 'crisis Europe'. On the one hand, 'the market' is
presented as that to which EU member states must collectively
respond. It is the very purpose of a post-national government and
that which dictates individual and collective identities. The
expansion of market is that which guarantees and constitutes peace
in Europe. On the other hand, 'the market' is that which government
must seek to tame. It is the servant of government and ought not be
permitted to undermine collective identities and solidarities
associated with the juridical imaginary of social contract and
sovereign nation-state. It is, from this perspective, the expansion
of the social institutions of nation-state into the post-national
arena that will constitute a lasting peace in Europe. Cosmopolitan
Government in Europe uses a Foucauldian lens to consider the ethics
of the scholarly and institutional discourses associated with these
apparently divergent market and legal cosmopolitan visions of
Europe. It reflects on attempts to reconcile or move beyond these
discourses, particularly through the invocation of more pluralist
modes of governance, but claims that such moves have been largely
unsuccessful in both practice and theory. It argues that the very
ambiguity in the relationship between the ideal subjects that these
market and legal visions promote - respectively, post-national
'entrepreneur' and 'citizen' - is that which permits a space for
resistance and politics. Thus, the book argues for a pragmatic
politics which is cognizant of the violent potential inherent in
any cosmopolitan attempt to govern Europe, while recognising the
contemporary dangers associated with the dominance of a market
cosmopolitan Europe. This work is an important and timely
intervention in contemporary debates about democratic Europe and
its shortcomings and will be of great interest to scholars of
international political theory, European studies and international
political economy.
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