Centripetal tendencies

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Centripetal tendencies

• Integration Federalism

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Laffan

• the intensity of relations between the
  participating states and the manner in which
  those relations are organised and
  managed.Intergovernmental cooperatiion occurs
  only within clearly defined limits and is
  controlled by the member states it is not
  intended to impinge greatly upon sovereignty ..

3
Haas/Lindberg

• how and why states cease to be wholly sovereign
  so as to lose the factual attributes of
  sovereignty while acquiring new techniques for
  resolving conflicts
• to make joint decisions or to delegate the
  process to new central organs

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Wheare - Federal

• federal government exists when the powers of
  government for a community are divided
  substantially according to the principle that
  there is a single independent authority for the
  whole area is respect of some matters and that
  there are independent regional authorities for
  other matters, each set of authorities being
  co-ordinate with and not subordinate to others
  within its prescribed spheres

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KEYS

• COMMON HERITAGE Christianity,Romans, Philosophy
• THE IDEA Sully, Penn, Kant
• IMPACT OF WAR 8.5/15-20m Briand
• NEED FOR PHYSICAL RE-CONSTUCTION
• ECONOMICS OF SCALE

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KEYS cont

• MOOD -federalism
• ROLE IN WORLD
• THE GERMAN QUESTION
• EXPERIENCE
• US?

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DEVELOPMENTS

• THE HAGUE 1948
• SCHUMAN 1950
• EVER CLOSER UNION
• A KIND OF UNITED STATES OF EUROPE - CHURCHILL
• INTEGRATION
• FEDERAL PHASE -1954?