ABSTRACT

The effects of nation-building and nationalism and of federalism and regional integration reveal the progressive obsolescence of the national paradigm within an increasingly globalized world. The history of European Union (EU) is the story of a post-national entity that was built upon the tragedies nationalism caused in an increasingly globalized world. Its development was contemporaneous to the failure of the two main post-war nation-building projects. Between 1947-50, India, Palestine and Europe were politically reorganized under opposing models. The building of a united Europe has allowed two-centuries-old enemies to become peaceful and cooperative neighbours and development of human societies in which the respect for democracy and human rights, as well as average living conditions, are best in history. The history of European integration is history of an internal success and an external failure. The elitarian and functionalist orientation of the European process of integration must also be overcome by leaving behind Eurocentrism.