Suverenita, stát a demokracie v českém politickém diskursu

• Authors: Guemplova Petra

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.

Keywords

EN

CZECH REPUBLIC; DEMOCRACY; EUROPEANIZATION; SOVEREIGNTY; STATE'S THEORY

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
• Journal: Teorie vědy (Theory of Science)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 16/29
• Issue: 3-4
• Pages: 169-207
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Guemplova Petra,

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

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09CZAAAA061723