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Between Two Worlds: Europe in a Globalizing Era1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Anthony McGrew
Anthony McGrew*
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The University of Southampton
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Globalization – Simply The Growing Intensity, Extent And deepening impact of worldwide interconnectedness – poses anew the classic questions of political life, namely: who rules, by what means, in whose interests and to what purpose? This is not to suggest, as some do, that the forces of globalization are eclipsing sovereign states but it is to acknowledge that the necessary conditions for sovereign and democratic self-government are undergoing a significant transformation. This is especially evident in Europe where, at the great intersection of regionalism and globalism, a novel continental political order is crystallizing: not quite federalism in its orthodox form but clearly something more than classic intergovermentalism. Caught between two worlds – a Europe of nation-states and a Europe of Citizens to use Joschka Fischer's construction – the future political trajectory of the continent, in part, will depend upon how effectively regionalism mediates the dynamics of globalism and localism.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 37 , Issue 3 , July 2002 , pp. 343 - 358
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 2002

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This article was originally delivered as the Annual Lecture for the Centre for European Studies, Portsmouth University, October 2001. It has benefited from the advice and comments of the journal’s Editor and an anonymous reviewer.

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