ABSTRACT
If ever there was a region and historical period in which nation-states might have allowed themselves to be replaced with a supranational state, so as to expand the size of political jurisdiction to match that of an expanding market, this was Western Europe after the Second World War. Already Emile Durkheim, in the late nineteenth century, had noticed the development of a common European civil society, based on a growing international division of labour and shared concepts of justice.
