Seminar series Within reason: the paradoxical origins and evolution of European integration Add to calendar 2025-04-29 15:30 2025-04-29 17:00 Europe/Rome Within reason: the paradoxical origins and evolution of European integration Sala Belvedere Villa Schifanoia YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Apr 29 2025 15:30 - 17:00 CEST Sala Belvedere, Villa Schifanoia Organised by Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies GGP: Global Governance Programme Join Brian Rathbun as he presents his neoclassical functionalist framework for understanding the development of European integration. This presentation introduces a ‘neoclassical functionalist’ framework that conceives of European integration as an early attempt to depoliticise foreign affairs. Functionalists such as Jean Monnet viewed the partiality and arbitrariness of politics as the antithesis of reason and sought to advance technocratic governance as a means of promoting objectivity and deliberation for the collective good. This approach was later reinforced by the European Court of Justice’s development of a rule of law for Europe.Paradoxically, however, this technocratic project relied on political judgement to avoid sensitive issues of national identity—judgement that was absent in earlier efforts at federation. In the case of the European Court of Justice, it also required the political act of violating the rule of law in order to establish an apolitical justice. The decisive shift towards Political Union, it is argued, only became possible when intuition prevailed over reason, which became true when the prospect of German unification arose in 1990. Related events Read more Conference From 12 Jun 2025 14:00 CEST to 13 Jun 2025 18:00 CEST Villa Ruspoli, Piazza Indipendenza n. 9, Florence, University of Florence Conference Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Botticelli v. Warhol: Comparative perspectives on the use of cultural heritage images Speakers: Alessandro Simoni (University of Florence) Gabriele Gori (Fondazione CR Firenze) Silvia Zonnedda (Fondazione CR Firenze) Antonella Ranaldi (SABAP-FI) Vittoria Barsotti (Fondazione CR Firenze) Alessandra De Luca (University of Florence) Ariane Thomas (Louvre Museum) Jennifer Celani (Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio of Florence, Pistoia and Prato) Simone Torricelli (University of Florence) Giorgio Resta (Roma Tre University) Amy Adler (New York University) Cecilie Hollberg (Harvard University) Eleonora Rosati (University of Stockholm) Alessandro Cogo (University of Torino) Gordon Humphreys (EU Intellectual Property Office) Cristiana Sappa (IÉSEG School of Management) Giacomo Pailli (University of Palermo) Massimo Sterpi (Gianni e Origoni) Marketa Trimble (University of Nevada) Marina Markellou (University of Groningen) Eduard Treppoz (Panthéon-AssasUniversity Paris II) Lucrezia Palandri (Univeristy of Insubria) Caterina Sganga (Sant Anna School of Advanced Studies) Silvia Scalzini (LUISS University) Giulia Dore (University of Trento) Anna Pirri Valentini (IMT School for Advances Studies Lucca and LUISS University) Rina Elster Pantalony (University of California, Los Angeles) Deborah De Angelis (Wikimedia Italia & Creative Commons) Niccolò Galli (European University Institute)
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