As Beyond, So Below : European Sovereignty and Economic Globalisation

The contribution explores the role of economic globalisation in the identity formation (‘constitution’) of the European Union at the interface of law, democracy, and social justice. It examines how the spatial, subjective and material dimensions of European sovereignty interact with economic globalisation in EU internal and external relations. Whereas Westphalian sovereignty was predicated on the (more or less) exclusive unity between government, territory and citizenry, a distinguishing trait of post-Westphalian sovereignty is the functional delimitation and extension of state powers in a globalised liberal private sphere