Aufsatz(gedruckt)#11974
THE DIPLOMACY'OF THE ENLARGED EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
In: World affairs: a journal of ideas and debate, Band 137, Heft 1, S. 3-22
ISSN: 0043-8200
THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY HAS FAILED TO DEFINE'WHAT IS VITAL TO ITS CONTINUED EXISTENCE'AND CONSEQUENTLY WHAT ELEMENTS OF INDIVIDUAL STATE DETERMINATION MUST BE SURRENDERED. THE DEFINITION OF THE EXTERNAL ROLE OF THE COLLECTIVE THUS DEPENDS ON AN AGREEMENT ON WHAT THE UNIT IN FACT IS. WESTERN EUROPEANS MAY BE AT THE POINT WHERE THE QUESTION MUST BE RESOLVED.