The future of Europe in world-making is regional. This essay proposes that the European Union should be re-instituted as one regional international organization among others and as equal to them under international law. Thereby, the re-organized EU could contribute, with other RIOs, to building the ‘world of regions’ many have long thought could provide the institutional remedy to ‘post-imperial imperialism’. With other peoples, ‘We Europeans’ should pick up the construction of an allegedly universal international institutional order where it was left in 1945. We should endeavour to enforce that order’s egalitarian principle by finally instituting regional orders not only for ourselves, but also for all other peoples in those regions. This is how we will protect those peoples from European imperialism, but also how we will all protect ourselves from the imperialist power of other regional ‘Empire-States’ and ‘Empire-Organizations’ in the world.
Samantha Besson (Sun,) studied this question.