EUROPSKA FEDERATIVNA REPUBLIKA I LEVIJATAN – PRIJATELJI ILI NEPRIJATELJI?
EUROPE’S FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC AND LEVIATHAN - FRIENDS OR FOES?

Summary/Abstract: Seen from the perspective of classical state theory (Bodin, Hobbes, Hegel), to appropriately confront the dilemma whether federalism and modern state are friends or enemies in the process of European integration necessitates previous clarifications of some key features of a modern state. In contrast to the pre-modern orders of personalized power, state implies impersonal sovereign rule as a condition of legal order establishing and subjectivation of man as legal person. In the process of European political community building continental Leviathan is not a barrier to federalist democratic integration of Europe as a republic but its precondition. Their common enemy is Behemoth as a symbol of not only civil war (in the sense of Hobbes and Schmitt) but also Nazi totalitarian regime as a non-state (Neumann).

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