Supranational Citizenship

209 Pages·2006·1.309 MB·English

by  Lynn Dobson

supranational
citizenship
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EUROPE
IN
CHANGE
SERIES EDITORS: THOMAS CHRISTIANSEN AND EMIL KIRCHNER
already published
The formation of Croatian national identity ALEX J. BELLAMY
Committee governance in the European Union
THOMAS CHRISTIANSEN AND EMIL KIRCHNER (EDS)
Theory and reform in the European Union, 2nd edition
DIMITRIS N. CHRYSSOCHOOU, MICHAEL J. TSINISIZELIS, STELIOS STAVRIDIS AND KOSTAS IFANTIS
German policy-making and eastern enlargement of the EU during the Kohl era
STEPHEN D. COLLINS
The European Union and the Cyprus conflict THOMAS DIEZ
The changing European Commission DIONYSSIS DIMITRAKOPOULOS (ED.)
Reshaping Economic and Monetary Union SHAWN DONNELLY
The time of European governance MAGNUS EKENGREN
An introduction to post-Communist Bulgaria EMIL GIATZIDIS
Mothering the Union ROBERTA GUERRINA
The new Germany and migration in Europe BARBARA MARSHALL
Turkey: facing a new millennium AMIKAM NACHMANI
The changing faces of federalism SERGIO ORTINO, MITJA (cid:127)AGAR AND VOJTECH MASTNY (EDS)
The road to the European Union
Volume 1 The Czech and Slovak Republics JACQUES RUPNIK AND JAN ZIELONKA (EDS)
Volume 2 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania VELLO PETTAI AND JAN ZIELONKA (EDS)
Democratising capitalism?
The political economy of post-Communist transformations in Romania, 1989–2001
LILIANA POP
Europe and civil society Movement coalitions and European governance
CARLO RUZZA
Constructing the path to eastern enlargement ULRICH SEDELMEIER
Two tiers or two speeds?
The European security order and the enlargement of the European Union and NATO
JAMES SPERLING (ED.)
Recasting the European order JAMES SPERLING AND EMIL KIRCHNER
Political symbolism and European integration TOBIAS THEILER
Rethinking European Union foreign policy BEN TONRA AND THOMAS CHRISTIANSEN (EDS)
The European Union in the wake of eastern enlargement
AMY VERDUN AND OSVALDO CROCI (EDS)
Democratic citizenship and the European Union ALBERT WEALE
The emerging Euro-Mediterranean system DIMITRIS K. XENAKIS AND DIMITRIS N. CHRYSSOCHOOU
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YNN OBSON
supranational
citizenship

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Manchester and New York
distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave
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Copyright © Lynn Dobson 2006
The right of Lynn Dobson to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by
her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
Published by Manchester University Press
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Contents
Acknowledgements page vii
Introduction 1
Part I
1 Citizenship I: membership, privilege, and place 19
2 Citizenship II: status, identity, and role 35
3 Citizenship of the European Union 49
Part II
4 Gewirth: action and agency 71
5 Political agency 85
6 Nexus, framework: constituting authority 97
7 Agency, authorisation, and representation in the EU 111
Part III
8 Gewirth: community, rights, values 127
9 Mutual recognition in the supranational polity 137
10 The good supranational constitution 153
Conclusion 170
References 173
Index 191
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This work is dedicated to my daughter, Claudia
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Acknowledgements
So many people have contributed to Supranational Citizenship in one way or another it
seems impossible to record my appreciation of each one personally – so I hope the gener-
osity of those I have cause to thank will extend to accepting gratitude expressed to them
collectively (though not the less sincerely). Two people have read and commented on the
work so extensively that I really must make exceptions in their cases: Albert Weale super-
vised the doctoral research from which this book emerged, and Russell Keat offered advice
as I prepared it for publication. Finally, the friendship of Andre Barros was crucial to the
work during a particularly difficult time, and I thank her too.
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Introduction
Supra-
above, beyond, in addition (to)
(Oxford English Dictionary)
Within recent memory the prospect of EU citizenship would have struck most
observers as wildly speculative, and the idea of it unintelligible. The very concept
of modern citizenship was so inextricably linked with that of the nation-state as
to appear meaningless when decoupled from it. That nation states were the only
possible repositories of citizens’ political attention, activity, and allegiance seemed
self-evident. Ideas of global or supranational citizenship were, consequently, vacu-
ous – at best, rhetorical. Besides, an intergovernmental trade regime like the EEC
was not the kind of arrangement of which citizenship might ever be an appropri-
ate status. In 1974 Raymond Aron, speculating on the possibility of citizenship in
the European Community, asked the question ‘Is multinational citizenship pos-
sible?’ and answered with a resounding no: ‘There are no such animals as “Euro-
pean citizens”. There are only French, German, or Italian citizens.’1 He was proved
wrong in the space of two decades. In 1992 the Maastricht Treaty concluded by
the European Union’s then twelve member states formally established, for their
nationals, the automatic status of citizen of the EU, and invested the status with a
limited number of political and civil rights.2 Though filtered through member
state nationality, the relationship with the EU’s political institutions for those who
pass through the filter is formally direct.
Since Aron wrote, it has become clear that people’s lives are increasingly be-
ing affected by events and decisions in arenas of activity larger than the nation-
state.3 As Waldron has observed, we have come to depend upon political, economic,
and social structures going far beyond the communities of our original or pri-
mary affiliation4 and are no longer self-sufficient individually or collectively but
instead indebted, not just to our locales, regions, and nation-states, but also to the
larger contexts that, in turn, sustain them.5 As systems of governance beyond the
nation-state extend the scale and scope of their decision-making capacities, they
have more pervasive and far-reaching effects on the circumstances within which
individual lives are lived. However, the democratisation of these arenas has not
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