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SUPRANATIONALISM

SUPRANATIONALISM. TENDENCY FOR STATES TO GIVE UP POLITICAL POWER TO A HIGHER AUTHORITY IN PURSUIT OF COMMON OBJECTIVES (political, economic, military, environmental). FRQ:2 Supranationalism and Devolution. SUPRANATIONALISM.

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SUPRANATIONALISM

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  1. SUPRANATIONALISM TENDENCY FOR STATES TO GIVE UP POLITICAL POWER TO A HIGHER AUTHORITY IN PURSUIT OF COMMON OBJECTIVES (political, economic, military, environmental) FRQ:2 Supranationalism and Devolution

  2. SUPRANATIONALISM • Involves multiple national states (two or more) with a common goal. • Examples: European Union NAFTA UN NATO

  3. DEVOLUTION • Relinquishing of autonomy to internal units • Process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government. • Breakup of a state (balkanization)

  4. Break up of a state Yugoslavia / Balkans Former U.S.S.R. Czechoslavakia Autstria-Hungary Demand for autonomy UK: Scotland, Wales, Ireland, N. Ireland Spain: Basques, Catalonians Italy: Padania, Tyrol France: Corsica Examples of Devolution

  5. EFFECTS OF SUPRANATIONALISM • Free Trade (reduced Tariffs) = economic prosperity • Common Currency • Open Borders for labor & tourists • Greater international influence • Greater political/eco power • More power to compete with economies of other countries

  6. EFFECTS OF SUPRANATIONALISM • Loss of Control over individual policy • War is less likely • Common policy • Resources, agriculture, economic, environment, trade, military

  7. EFFECTS OF DEVOLUTION • Formation of new states • More power to regions • Formation of new legislatures • Local control over policy • Local ethno-nationalism • Linguistic • Religious revival • Regional separatism

  8. EFFECTS OF DEVOLUTION • Political instability • Civil war • Fighting • Hostility • Ethnic cleansing • Economic instability • Mass Migration • Refugees • emigration

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