“It is a vital concern of every State not only to vanquish nomadism but to control migrations and, more generally, to establish a zone of rights over an entire "exterior.”” —1000 Plateaus. A demonstration that the EU is not a state, and that Europe is, in a sense, stateless.
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a state is not only an instance of a political form. it has other institutional qualities such as legal system, trade relations, statecraft, financial systems, military power. the state is subject to historical forces, and changes character over time
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in other words, the eu is not completely new, but neither is it completely old. the constitutional order can be defined in terms of its historical epoch and in this respect the eu can be seen to represent the transition from the nation state to whatever will replace it
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I think that view was tenable and prevelant up to the Greek financial crisis. The EU is actually antiquated (it’s basically bodged together treaties + a bureaucracy) when compared to the emerging technologies and social organisations that will route around it.
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It’s like the UN in this respect, a 1950s vintage vision of how international cooperation would look that now looks almost kitsch. We’ve gone much beyond that vision, largely driven by the Internet (but other factors, too).
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