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Article: THE EUROPEAN UNION'S NEW AMBITIONS
- Article from:
- American Society of International Law. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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For those interested in the evolution of international organizations as well as great-power politics, this is a very special moment. The European Union is developing into an entity of a kind not seen before. International law, as well as international diplomacy, faces a major challenge: How to accommodate European integration in a wide range of existing mechanisms designed for fully sovereign nation-states rather than an entity like the European Union, in which twenty-five states have irrevocably transferred significant elements of their own sovereignty to a common institution. The most recent EU enlargement, on such a dramatic scale, has important external effects that must inevitably ...