European communion: political theory of European union

Manners, Ian (2011) European communion: political theory of European union. UNSPECIFIED. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Political theory of European union, though an engagement between political concepts and theoretical understandings, provides a means of theorising the EU as a political object. It is argued that the notion of sharing or ‘communion’, lying at the interface of political theory and political conceptualisation, provides a better means of theorising the EU as a political object rather than terms such as integration or cooperation. By exploring European communion through an engagement with political theory, the paper sets out how three different understandings of the EU as a political object are being constitutionalised – the EU as a constellation of communities; the EU as a cosmopolitan space; and the EU as an example of cosmopolitical coexistence.

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