My new piece for HuffPost:
Between East and West, there is already a middle way of sort. The European Union is halfway both in terms of governance and geography, combining multi-party democracy of the European nation-states, joint and partly governed by a pan-European bureaucracy that, it can be argued, has some meritocratic features. Yet, this system suffers from fractionalized authority that, rather than enabling effective governance by a meritocratic bureaucracy mandated by leadership of popular legitimacy, results in tension over authority between the pan-European bureaucracy and the popularly elected representatives of separate European nations. This, in turn, results in a reluctant and populist-driven national governments’ resistance to strengthening European institutions, while these institutions are reduced from a strategic planner to a crisis-manager of last resort.
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