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2007 | 16/29 | 3-4 | 169-207

Article title

Suverenita, stát a demokracie v českém politickém diskursu

Authors

Title variants

EN
SOVEREIGNTY, THE STATE AND DEMOCRACY IN THE CZECH POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Languages of publication

CS

Abstracts

EN
The text analyzes the discourse on sovereignty in the Czech politics in the light of current processes of the transformation of sovereignty caused by the globalization and Europeanization. The authoress discusses the dispute between liberal-conservative critics of the European integration and cosmopolitan critics of the sovereign statehood and points to the limits of both positions. It is argued that the conservatives who warn against the loss of sovereignty in the ongoing process of Europeanization and who call for the protection of the Czech statehood cling to an obsolete and invalid concept of sovereignty that is no longer adequate to changing social and geopolitical conditions. Similarly, it is pointed out that the defenders of cosmopolitan Europe who take sovereignty to be an old and useless category hindering the process of democratization are unable to offer an alternative capable of responding to growing concerns regarding the democratic deficit and the loss of political autonomy. The text tries to show that both positions misconstrue the challenges of globalization and Europeanization for the state and democracy.

Year

Volume

Issue

3-4

Pages

169-207

Physical description

Document type

ARTICLE

Contributors

  • Petra Guemplova, New School for Social Research, 65 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003, USA, http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4194/

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier
09CZAAAA061723

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.0c52f022-069b-3cf8-9ae7-06bac2137240
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