eprintid: 7286
rev_number: 8
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datestamp: 2007-03-21 09:23:56
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creators_name: Pletsch, Michael W.
title: European Union: The  Whole and the Parts  -Member States Challenging the Common Foreign  and Security Policy.Comparative reflections  on the relationship of the whole and the parts in  philosophy, philosophy of economics,biology/cytology and European integration. Contribution to 50 years anniversary of signing the Rome Treaty establishing the European Economic Community
ispublished: pub
subjects: 340
divisions: 20001
keywords: European Union , political philosophy , philosophy of economics , cytology , foreign and security policy
cterms_swd: Europäische Union
cterms_swd: Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik
cterms_swd: Politische Philosophie
cterms_swd: Wirtschaftsphilosophie
cterms_swd: Cytologie
cterms_swd: Funktionalismus <Philosop
abstract: The authors article is a contribution to 50 years´ anniversary of signing the Rome Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,  to better understanding the European Union, the relationship of the Union and the Member  States. The issue of  the European Union´s Constitution deadlock including  the special issue of the weighting of votes as well as the issue of  Poland´s and the Czech Republic´s position on the US offer to  install a  US led anti-missile system in the two EU Member States : these issues are demonstrating the one crucial identity issue of the relationship of the European Union and its Member States,  the relationship of the whole and the parts. Viewing at  transdisciplinary  comparative  reflections on the relationship of the whole and the parts in philosophy, philosophy of economics and  in natural science as well as in the law and policy making system of the European Union: the author concludes that the parts do not constitute the whole as an end in itself, they are subject, however, to a functional dialectical role to achieve common objectives, they are bound by the rationalism´s  principle of effectiveness which is one of the constitutional essentials of the Treaty establishing the European Union as the legal incorporation of the functional dialectical approach of combining integrative, cooperative and competitive interactions between the Member States.  The author has a deeper look at the biology/cytology system of the cell as a complex network of intracellular and extracellular structures the individual components of which are highly interconnected  and  practice the dynamics of  the dialectical relationship of  the cell and its structural components of  interconnected cooperative and competitive levels of  the complex network: ensuring the vitality of the cell  and preventing the cell´s intracellular components from losing their independent identity and getting mixed in the cytoplasm. What prevents the smaller Member States of an enlarged European Union from losing identity, from mixing in the “cytoplasm” of the  larger European Union: it is the  Union´s complex multileveled network system of the functional approach of  the  dialectical  dynamic cooperative and competitive relationship of the Union and the Member States, the whole and the parts, and that dialectical functional relation prevents the enlarged European Union from being dismantled, as well.  Part of that system the Membership of which Poland´s Government had signed is the legal and political commitment to respect Treaty obligations: to consult each other within the EU´s Council before undertaking bilateral actions having direct impact on  the Common Foreign and Security Policy, to consult within the EU´s Council a common position  before consulting the matter within NATO and,actually, before  accepting the US offer to install a anti-missile shield in Central Europe. 
abstract_translated_lang: eng
class_scheme: msc
class_labels: CCM
date: 2007
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00007286
ppn_swb: 1644684659
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-72862
language: eng
bibsort: PLETSCHMICEUROPEANUN2007
full_text_status: public
citation:   Pletsch, Michael W.  (2007) European Union: The Whole and the Parts -Member States Challenging the Common Foreign and Security Policy.Comparative reflections on the relationship of the whole and the parts in philosophy, philosophy of economics,biology/cytology and European integration. Contribution to 50 years anniversary of signing the Rome Treaty establishing the European Economic Community.    .      
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/7286/1/European_Union_the_whole_and_the_parts.pdf