Post-National Structure And The World Citizen Society

Juergen Habermas had given a lot of views in recent years for international political and economic order. These views as his language democratic theory extend , is also the thought of difficult condition for present world. What is in which most famous is that " post-national structure "theory. He thinks that under the pressure of economic globalization, country and market split increasingly, cause the administer structure of modern national country decline, welfare country is faced with disintegrating, what's more, there's no substitute on its function. Facing the embarrassment of democratic country on administer structure, Habermas think national country has changed into "post-national structure ", this kind of administer structure is pregnant with the legal form of politics administer from the market of globalization. Among it, the form of European Union is its model. So, he have put forward a kind of scheme which aim at surmounting these crises and attempt to make world develop in the direction of democracy, freedom and fairness, at the last to establish a kind of" no dominance, democratic, fair and harmonious " social order. He believes, in the future, when the national country "die out", mankind must be one jointly " world citizen society ", so realize liberation and the freedom of human step by step. The international-political thought of Habermas give us a lot of apocalypse, but there is still some evident limitations on it.There is a main thread in Habermas' international-political thought names:" post-national structure "theory, and we can also generalize a skeleton from it—"national country---surpassing national country---world citizen society". This dissertation will discuss it with four parts:The first part: National Country and Post-national Structure. Put emphases on Habermas' analysis of "national country", thus educing his "post-national structure "theory. In the paper, the author generalized the discussion of Habermas on crisis and challenges which national country faced with under globalization. Also indicating the reason why Habermas put forward it.The second part: The Route Choose of Europe Future. Start with Habermas expatiation on Europe integration and the reform of Europe Union. Analyzing the necessary condition of surpassing national country, then, point out the key is to make the "identification of collectivity". To do this, a common, legal identity is necessary, Which Habermas call "constitutional patriotism".The third part: Is the World Citizen Society Possible. First analyze the era background and theory origin of Habermas' world citizen society theory. Then conclude his assumption about world citizen society and how to make for it.The last part: Conclusion. Put estimation on Habermas' post-national structure theory and his assumption about world citizen society, indicating that, it gives us a lot of illumination, but it also including some obvious limitations.