ISSN: 0867-0617
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Kollektive Erwählung und souveräne Gleichheit
(Collectiva election and sovereign equality)
| Authors: |
Joachim
von Wedel
Instytut Politologii i Europeistyki, Uniwersytet Szczeciński |
| Keywords: | collective election, myth, international law, sovereign equality |
| Data publikacji całości: | 2014 |
| Page range: | 10 (71-80) |
Abstract
Certain elements of – widespread in Europa until the beginning of the 20. century – convictions for be collectively (nationally) elected can still be seen today in US foreignpolicy. The article tries to qualify the phenomenon, looking at it from the perspective of its adressees. While the principle of sovereign equality due to several cases of legallysanctioned inequality can hardly be used as a means of defense, for two other reasons there is ground for calmness in face of ideas of collective election: at first all those ideas will, as will any mythically founded narration, sooner or later disappear, especially, as they are regularly tied to phases of power expansion. Secondly, some changes in today’s international politics – especially a progressing tendency towards regulation – increasingly impede the most painful expressions of collective election.
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