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universally recognized “democracy deficit”—is a mostly unaccountable, unrepresentative hybrid regime that is, in reality, a post-democratic form of governance. Whatever it is, it is not “government by consent of the governed,” and it is morally inferior, not superior, to that great achievement of the West, the liberal democratic nation-state.

Moreover, as we have seen recently, in the practical world of international politics it is the liberal democratic nationstates of Europe—not the post-national EU—that have rallied to the support of the U.S. It was Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic that endorsed the U.S. stand on Iraq—in their capacity as democratic nation-states, in opposition (explicitly and implicitly) to the implied common European foreign and defense policy crafted by EU elites. Pace Kagan, the political integration of Europe does not, necessarily, “benefit” American foreign policy.

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universally recognized “democracy deficit”—is a mostly unaccountable, unrepresentative hybrid regime that is, in reality, a post-democratic form of governance. Whatever it is, it is not “government by consent of the governed,” and it is morally inferior, not superior, to that great achievement of the West, the liberal democratic nation-state.

Moreover, as we have seen recently, in the practical world of international politics it is the liberal democratic nationstates of Europe—not the post-national EU—that have rallied to the support of the U.S. It was Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic that endorsed the U.S. stand on Iraq—in their capacity as democratic nation-states, in opposition (explicitly and implicitly) to the implied common European foreign and defense policy crafted by EU elites. Pace Kagan, the political integration of Europe does not, necessarily, “benefit” American foreign policy.