In person icon Supranational, Transnational and European Conceptual Struggles: Democracy, Parliamentarisation, Politicisation

Abstract

Kari Palonen’s book At the Origins of Parliamentary Europe. Supranational parliamentary government in debates of the Ad Hoc Assembly for the European Political Community in 1952–1953” thematises major topics of political science: parliamentary studies, European studies and studies on supranational institutions, connected to conceptual history, debate rhetoric and political theory. The debates in the Ad Hoc Assembly and the Draft Treaty it proposed for the European Political Community politicised the European integration with a supranational parliamentary government, as opposed to intergovernmental international institutions. A central thesis of the book is that supranationalism and parliamentarism refer both to aspects of politicisation, in the sense of opening new aspects of contingency and questioning the givenness of both the nation-state and the intergovernmental type of international order. These two aspects mark a politicisation of European integration, constructing it as an independent polity-level. Historically supranationalism and parliamentarism do not always belong together, and combining them was a distinct achievement of the debates and the Draft Treaty of the Ad Hoc Assembly. Although we cannot return to the political constellation after 70 years, the parliamentary and supranational forms of politicising the European integration are worth being reactivated in the debates of the future of the EU’s political institutions. The panel includes both papers discussing the original book, as well as papers addressing the wider questions of parliamentarism, supranationalism, European integration, democracy and politicization.

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