Europe and Its (Tragic) Statelessness Fantasy: The Lure of European Private Law, Post-National Governance and Political Order

This book provides the first comparative and multi-disciplinary investigation into what Siliquini Cinelli calls 'Europe's tragic statelessness fantasy' - a fantasy which is characterized by the progress in the promotion of what the author describes as the 'Europeanization of Europe' as the process to create a supra-national entity in which classic forms of law and politics (and thus the Member States) will have an increasingly weaker role. In arguing that the post-modern phase of the 'Europeanization of Europe' is the continental paradigm of the doctrine aimed at achieving the formal 'depoliticization' and 'dejuridification' of the world, Siliquini Cinelli explains why its statelessness fantasy is profoundly linked to the global '(a-)spatial turn' that legal and sociopolitical theories are undergoing. In doing so, he claims that the final goal of this process is to transform the 'Europe of trading' into the 'Europe of rights' while passing through the single market and a monetary economic union (the EU) with common fiscal policies supported by a banking union. Later, Siliquini Cinelli's comparative and inter-disciplinary approach calls for a thorough reconsideration of this project through an inquiry into (1) the lure of European private law as a particular type of 'stateless law'; (2) the several pluralist channels of soft-networked post-national governance that have been promoted in the continent in recent years; and (3) the challenges related to an effective protection of the political order within the EU's boundaries. Dr. Luca Siliquini Cinelli is a lecturer at the School of Law, Deakin University, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in Law and Institutions - EU, Comparative and Private Law and LL.B. (magna cum laude) from the University of Turin School of Law, Italy.