In a ‘flat world’ there is no longer a place for the sovereign right of national ‘non-inteference’, argues Ulrike Guérot. Europe must begin thinking about ‘network democracy’, in which social cohesion is organized beyond borders.
Ulrike Guérot
is Founder and Director of the European Democracy Lab at the European School of Governance in Berlin, and a lecturer on European integration at the European Viadrina University. Previously she worked for the European Council on Foreign Relations, at the Open Society Initiative for Europe, at the German Council on Foreign Relations, and with the German Marshall Fund.
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