MARKET 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: European Bank For Reconstruction And Development, Neoliberalism, Fake News
Document Summary
Define the different positions on the future of the eu. Re-envisioning eu identity as a region-state" with nation state members in overlapping policy communities. There has been a disconnection between the political accountable and their economic policies with the voting public in the eu. Despite achievements for a more competitive market with more opportunities rising inequality since 80s due to liberalization. Eu institutions have effectively economized" on national democracy through globalization and european integration. Local have engaged in blame-shifting and credit taking rather than debating. Current eu identity can be categorized: policy issues: based on border-less problem-solving entity ensuring free market, normative bordered values-based community, principled border-free, rights-based post-national union, strategic global actor doing ir differently" through multiculturalism, peace-keeping. New way of identity needed to move forward, reconceiling old visions and recognizing eu current role. Entity with state-like qualities and powers in ever-growing number of policy-areas. A conceptual innovation to describe un-named political-institutional entity beyond the nation-state.
