Politics in an era of globalisation and European Union integration

• Authors: Dušan Leška
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article looks at the mutual relations and links between globalisation and the integration of countries within the European Union. As the economic sphere is undergoing unrestrained globalisation, the position and sovereignty of nation-states is being weakened and politics is becoming harnessed to the economy. The relationship between the economy and politics is thus changing and there is a need to regulate the economy at a supranational level. The European Union has the potential to make positive use of the trend towards globalisation and limit its negative impacts on the economic, social, ecological and cultural levels. This requires, however, deeper integration and further harmonisation of the countries of the European Union in the economic and political spheres. In order for the countries to come closer together, as the current situation requires, a European people (or demos) and a European public space must be created.

Keywords

EN

nation; state; nation-state; politics; global financial capital; the European Union; European demos

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 89-99

Dates

published

2012-01-01

online

2012-01-13

Contributors

author

Dušan Leška

• Comenius University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-012-0009-0