The Paradox of Integration Habermas and the Unfinished Project of European Union一体化哈贝马斯与欧盟未完成项目的悖论.pdfVIP

POLITICS: 2001 VOL 21(2), 114–123 The Paradox of Integration: Habermas and the Unfinished Project of European Union Shivdeep Singh Grewal University of Reading In a recent article Jürgen Habermas (1999) highlighted the potential for the European Union to act as a vehicle for the extension of democratic governance beyond the nation state, a project aimed at limiting the socially corrosive impact of globalisation. Yet this position appears paradoxical as the European Union itself exacerbates a major aspect of globalisation: