Europe's Lack of Visions

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. . 2. A. Murphy, ‘Trapped in the Logic of the Modern State System? European Integration in the Wake of the Financial Crisis’, Geopolitics (present issue). 3. A. Murphy, ‘Territory's Continuing Allure’, Annals of the Association of American Geographers (forthcoming). 4. See for instance M. Jones and B. Jessop, ‘Thinking State/Space Incompossibly’, Antipode 42/5 (2010) pp. 1119–1149; or J. Painter, ‘European Citizenship and the Regions’, European Urban and Regional Studies 15/1 (2008) pp. 5–19. 5. See for instance J. Neyer, The Justification of Europe. A Political Theory of Supranational Integration (New York: Oxford University Press 2012); or the debate between A. Moravcsik, ‘Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union’, Journal of Common Market Studies 40/4 (2002) pp. 603–624 and A. Follesdal and S. Hix, ‘Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik’, Journal of Common Market Studies 44/3 (2006) pp. 533–562. 6. Reiterated from his 1996 paper: A. Murphy, ‘The Sovereign State System as Political-Territorial Ideal: Historical and Contemporary Considerations’, in T. J. Biersteker and C. Weber (eds.), State Sovereignty as Social Construct (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1996) pp. 81–120. 7. V. Bachmann, ‘Common Foreign and Security Policy: Unified European Geopolitics?’, Fair Observer, 10 Oct. 2011, available at . 8. See also F. Boedeltje and H. van Houtum, ‘The Abduction of Europe: A Plea for Less ‘Unionism’ and More Europe’, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 99/3 (2008) pp. 361–365; and V. Schmidt, ‘The European Union: Democratic Legitimacy in a Regional State?’, Journal of Common Market Studies 42/5 (2004) pp. 975–997. 9. See also F. Boedeltje, ‘The Other Spaces of Europe: Seeing European Geopolitics through the Disturbing Eye of Foucault's Heterotopias’, Geopolitics 17/1 (2012) p. 1. 10. V. Bachmann and B. Belina, ‘Crisis, Critique and the 6th International Conference of Critical Geography’, Antipode 44/3 (2012) pp. 555–559. 11. Euronews and the Franco-German channel Arte are exceptions, however, with a marginal impact. 12. J. Neyer, The Justification of Europe. A Political Theory of Supranational Integration (New York: Oxford University Press 2012). 13. The EU's generally neoliberal orientation is clearly problematic in this context; however, this goes beyond the scope of this commentary

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