EUROPE AND ITS (TRAGIC) STATELESSNESS FANTASY: THE LURE OF EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW, POST-NATIONAL GOVERNANCE AND POLITICAL ORDER

By Dr. Luca Siliquini Cinelli This book provides the first comparative and multi-disciplinary investigation into what Siliquini Cinelli calls "Europe's tragic statelessness fantas" - 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 sin