tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620652438500849718.post6450315787654986623..comments2024-02-25T10:22:38.186+00:00Comments on The European Citizen: The Nobel Peace Prize DebateEurocentrichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09439536905456080079noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620652438500849718.post-44443050954314502742012-10-16T20:18:04.174+01:002012-10-16T20:18:04.174+01:00The EU's a strange creature in that regard: at...The EU's a strange creature in that regard: at what point does it transform from a project that delivers peace to a community that is more about a civil space and a society than maintaining peace?<br /><br />Regarding democratisation, it is disappointing that there hasn't yet been a significant push from civil society (in a coordinated, cross-border sense) to democratise the EU institutions...Eurocentrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09439536905456080079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620652438500849718.post-14232409049832830772012-10-16T14:49:57.367+01:002012-10-16T14:49:57.367+01:00Conor: You might be interested in this discussion ...Conor: You might be interested in this discussion between Max Steinbeis (from the Verfassungsblog) and me, which was quite similar to the arguments exposed in this blogpost. While I was arguing that the Nobel Peace Prize for the EU came five decades too late as the Union today is not only a project to bring peace among peoples, but to build a supranational democracy among European citizens...<br /><br />http://foederalist.blogspot.de/2012/10/funfzig-jahre-zu-spat-zum.html<br /><br />... Max argued that without the Union there could still be nationalist hatred and aggressiveness:<br /><br />http://verfassungsblog.de/ein-hoch-auf-das-weltweit-erfolgreichste-friedenssicherungsprojekt/<br /><br />Still, we agreed that what the Union needs is more democratization - either as an end in itself or as a means to preserve peace.<br /><br />Whether or not you consider that the EU has deserved the peace prize depends probably on whether you consider European politics as foreign politics of the member states (then the EU is in fact a remarkable achievement of peace-building) or as domestic politics of a supranational Union (which would mean that the Nobel Committee has, as you write, "boosted a political position that is largely domestic").Manuel Müllerhttp://foederalist.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com