John, Ross and others,
   This interesting discussion reminds me that next fall (2004) I am
teaching a course called "The Structure, Policies, and Laws of the
European Union," in Turin, Italy to a group of mostly American
undergraduates.  At this point I have not chosen a textbook for the
course.
   Does anyone have ideas as to a good text or general book on the EU
that would be suitable for undergraduates?  In the past, when I have
taught a somewhat similar course in my other "studies abroad"
adventures, I have used the West "Nutshell" book on the European Union,
plus lots of supplemental readings.  But I am looking for new and better
ideas.  It should be a most interesting time to be in Italy as the EU
expands from 15 to 25 members.

Michael Bixby
Professor
Legal Studies in Business
Boise State University




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This morning on NPR, a professor of international law at the Fletcher
School (Tufts) was interviewed about the concept of the US "transferring
sovereignty to Iraqis."  He said that there's no such thing as partial
or limited sovereignty in international law.  There's either sovereignty
or it's not, but that an occupying nation certainly has varying degrees
of control even though it lacks sovereignty.  He noted that the US had
no sovereignty to transfer.  What the US has is control.  Also, of
course, sovereignty can exist despite the questionable legitimacy of the
government, as in a totalitarian regime.

John


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A few years ago, I co-taught a comparative federalism course with
someone from Scotland.  We compared the EU efforts to define federalism
with those that the US had gone through in the past 250+ years including
the original confederation and of course the Civil War.  We had a native
American in class who was terribly interested in the status "Indian
nations" and often compared it a bit with the status of Scotland in the
UK and EU.  Somewhere in all of this is a fascinating study of
sovereignty and what it means to be "a nation."

Ross D. Petty
Professor of Marketing Law
Babson College