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“The Challenge of Regional Integration”
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The Theoretical Challenge
• Are regional blocs a triumph of Liberalism?– Free trade in the region
– Factor mobility: Freedom
• Do they weaken economic nationalism?• Transcending nationalism through interdependence
• Or are we seeing the rise of regional blocs as new power centers?
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Our theories give us only one way to think about regional integration
• A choice for regional integration is a choice for liberalism
• Liberalism limited to the region
• Integration can be deep or shallow, more or less liberal
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But regionalism can be a new way to think about the relationship between politics and economics
• Regions replace states?
• They interact with one another..
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We have seen the rise of new global powers…BRICs—we may now be seeing the rise
of powerful regions• Decline of US as global hegemon for the
overall international economy.
• Lesson of Great Depression: Many expected the intl economy to ‘fragment’ into three main blocs—one centered on the US, one on Europe, and a third on Japan.
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A liberal view: “Bicycle theory” of Free Trade Areas
• if you don’t keep moving forward, the whole thing topples over.
• Global free trade is stalled.
• Regional trade keeps progress toward global freedom moving
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Some liberals disagree
• Discrimination
• Violation of core of WTO—MFN
• Undermines multilateralism
• EU is the greatest violator– Trades with only few countires on MFN basis
– Preferential arrangements with every other country in the world
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Distributive Justice/socialist critique
• Regionalism is just a platform for big business
• But no platform for democracy
• Project of political and economic elites
• Democratic deficit
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Regionalism can marry liberalism and nationalism….even economic nationalism
• Regional integration might be a compromise arrangement for markets and politics.
• Regional arrangements can break down national-level barriers to commerce
• And provide regional-level governance that represent interest groups and individuals.
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Best example of this is the EU
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But Regionalism can become competitive and dangerous
• Economies of scale to capture market leadership
• Econ. Nationalism at the level of supernationalgovernance
• De Santis’ view of China and Asian regionalism– ASEAN possibly a platform for China to exclude
the US from Asian market
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Except for the EU, though, Regionalism never really took off
• Many regional blocs out ther
• APEC, FTAA, the African Union, and the East Asian Economic Caucus, among others.
• Have not thrived
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Is the EU is Becoming a “Superstate?”
• What makes a State?
– Government over a defined territory
– Common symbols– Common traditions– Common military– Common currency– identity /culture– Granting of
citizenship rights
• What makes a “superstate?”
– A regional body with the characteristics of a state
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A common government?
• Where should laws be made?
• Which courts should decide?
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The ECSC/EEC institutions: consciously modeled on national states
Council of Ministers votes
EXECUTIVE LEGISLATIVE JUDICIAL
some implementationby Commission bureaucracy
most implementation bynational governments
European Commission proposes
European Parliament votes*
*Though little real EP power until 1980s
European Court ofJustice
adjudicatesdisputes
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Common symbols…….
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EU Anthem
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Euro
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European Passport
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Motto: Unity in Diversity
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EU Today
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The European Union (EU) has experienced significant changes over the last several years.
1- Enlargement2- Constitution3- Common Defense
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Enlargement…..
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1981/86
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Europe 2005
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European Union 2009
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The struggle for a Constitution
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EU Common Defense?
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Diplomacy: EU is Represented in International Organizations
• The EU is a member of the G20, WTO, UN,G8
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Much of the closer move toward integration or becoming a “superstate” came since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989
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August 13, 1961 November 9, 1989
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But there are problems….. Europeans still have much that divides them
• language• Culture• Laws• Attitudes• Which side of the road to drive one
• government
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Multilingualism,
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Large Bureaucracy unresponsive to Democracy
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Is there such a thing?
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Protesting the EU Constitution
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Immigration and the headscarf debate in France
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United in the Financial Crisis? Not really
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Free Trade or Protectionism?
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Is Europe really becoming a Superstate?
• If I want to call Europe, who answers the phone?
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Will the EU surpass the United States in power?
• As the EU enlarges, it will come to dominate the geopolitics of Eurasia,
• gradually replacing America as the arbiter of the globe’s strategic heartland.
• Capital is flowing to Europe and a rising euro competes with the dollar
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Will the Euro Threaten the Dollar’s Global Dominance?
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Trade and Competitiveness
• EU recently surpassed America as China’s top trading partner.
• This year’s ranking of the world’s most competitive economies by the World Economic Forum awarded five of the top 10 slots—including No. 1 Finland—to northern European social democracies.
• How will they fare in the financial crisis?
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Do the US and Europe cooperate more than they compete?
• that the nations of Europe, will merge closely into a higher unity and will form the fraternity of Europe . . . Two huge groups will be seen, the United States of America and the United States of Europe, holding out their hands to one another across the ocean 1848
• Victor Hugo 1802-1885
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Liberal view: EU and US: Interdependent whether they like it or not!
Today:
• The EU and US GDP = 60% of the world total,
• although together they =10% of the world population.
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We are Partners…….
• “The EU and US exchange one billion Euros in trade per day and our investment relationship is even bigger.
• In 2008, the US accounted for 3/4 of new foreign direct investment in Europe; while Europe invests more annually in Texas than Japan invests in the fifty states combined.
• And this investment creates jobs – over 4 million on each side of the Atlantic, and that’s only counting the jobs directly created by foreign affiliates.”
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A Threat to U.S. hegemony? Will the European Dream will soon surpass the American Dream?
The American Dream is the Liberal Dream:
Prosperity……. “Live to Work”
MeritMobilityConsumptionFree markets
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American Dream: Democracy
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Foreign Policy: Defend the American Dream…..US frees Europe in WW II
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Not long ago, the American dream was a global dream
• . Not only Americans saw themselves as a beacon unto nations. So did much of the rest of the world.
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What is happening to the American Dream?
Prosperity?
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Intolerable inequality?
• The US ranks 24th in the world in income disparity.
In the United States, inequality once seemed tolerable because America was the land of equal opportunity. But this is no longer so.
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What is happening to the American Dream of Democracy?
• Democracy?• Much in American law and society troubles Europeans these
days. – Nearly all countries reject the United States’ right to bear arms as a
quirky and dangerous anachronism.
– They abhor the death penalty
– and demand broader privacy protections.
– All thiscontributes to the growing sense that American law, once the world standard, has become “provincial.”
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The “European Dream”Equality and Community
• Prosperity is “Quality of Life”– social democracy and social protections—job
security and a social safety net– Focus on primary education, – Higher taxes for regulation in order to bolster
their quality of life. – In Europe, “work to live” replaces “live to
work.”
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The Good Life: Work to Live
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European Democracy: The World is looking to Europe as the Model…
• Now….When nations write a new constitution, as dozens have in the past two decades, they look to the European model
• . The Czechs adopted European-style parliament
• The provisional government in Kosovo opted for a European constitution.
• South Africa rejected American-style federalism in favor of a German model,
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Jeremy Rifkin’s view of “The European Dream,”
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Not so fast…..
• The case for Europe’s Power and the promise of its “Dream” may be overstated.
• Above I said that the European Union has a combined gross domestic product that is approximately the same as that of the United States.
• But the EU has 170 million more people. • Its per capita GDP is 25 percent lower than that of the U.S.• that gap has been widening for 15 years.
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Not so rich…..
• Present trend: In 20 years the average American will be twice as rich as the average German
• This will translate into worse social services in Europe….
• 40% of Swedish households would rank as low-income in the US.
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Environmental Problems still plague Europe
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Nonetheless…….The European Union is the most highly evolved example of regional integration in the world.
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