Beyond Europe - globalisation and/democratisation?

In posing the foundational question of whether democracy is possible also beyond the nation state, RECON does not only address the EU as a confined political entity, but also as part of a globalised and increasingly interdependent world.The world is largely integrated through a common economic legal system, and trade relations are mainly governed by WTO law. At the same time the EU is also a legally integrated economic system. In cases of conflict between these two legal systems, who has the last word? Tensions come to the fore as conflicts between economic interests and diverging policies. How does international trade law and policy affect the conditions of social regulation for constitutional democracies?

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