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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