Hobbes and Rawls on European Integration

A Contractarian Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-96858-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 175 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

Reihe: International Political Theory

This book offers a contractarian reading of the European integration process that corroborates, complements and, on occasion, contests European integration theory. It argues that the social contract theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Rawls provide us with insufficiently exploited clues to the formation and justification of European supranational institutions and redistributive instruments. An advanced understanding of the normative foundations of European integration seems to be all the more important in times of multiple crises, differentiated integration and even disintegration – all accompanied and accelerated by the growth of Euroscepticism and anti-European parties.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rolf, Jan Niklas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

chapter1:Introduction.- chapter2:Rationality in Hobbes and Rawls.- chapter3:Reciprocity in Hobbes and Rawls.- chapter4:The domestic analogy in Hobbes and Rawls.- chapter5:The domestic analogy in Kant and Beitz.- chapter6:Hobbes on European security political integration.-chapter7:Rawls on European socio economic integration.- chapter8:Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Jan Niklas Rolf is a lecturer in the study program of International Relations and a researcher at the Competence Center Societal Transformations at Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Germany.