Vojska Europske unije iz kantovske perspektive
Army Of The European Union From A Kantian Perspective

Summary/Abstract: In this article I try to show how the imminent question of a joint army of the European Union would be answered by Immanuel Kant, one of its “spiritual forefathers”. I consider Kant’s views on the peacebuilding role of supranational entities, the moral permissibility of warfare, and the legal procedures for starting wars, and link them with the current European situation to produce an affirmative answer to the issue of a possible European army. I claim that the European Union is, from a Kantian perspective, the nearest thing to a peace-enabling supranational entity, and thus provides a moral foundation for a joint military. Considering that the current European situation is not promising, such forces would constitute one of the pillars for a sustainable European project. I envisage as the main challenge the need to construct deliberative procedures that would make decision-making truly legitimate (on the European scale), while also being operable.

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