出刊年月/Date of Publishing

2005.09

所屬卷期/Vol. & No.   第35卷第3期 Vol. 35, No. 3

類型/Type                 研究論文 Research Article

篇名/Title
State Governance within the EMU in an Age of Globalization—The Case of the UK
全球化時代在歐洲經濟與貨幣聯盟之下的國家治理——以英國為評估

作者/Author
羅至美 Chih-Mei Luo

頁碼/Pagination
pp. 547-603

摘要
對參與歐洲經濟與貨幣聯盟 (EMU) 的會員國而言，最大的代價即是經濟主權的讓與。本文將以英國為例，分析與評估在全球化的時代，如果加入歐元，英國的經濟主權與國家治理將會受到如何地影響變化。基於英國為一開放的經濟體並為歐洲金融中心，因而意謂著其易受國際經濟與國際金融變動的影響，本文將從全球化及其對國家治理的影響開始探討。在此一背景下，進而討論EMU做為促進會員國經濟主權的角色，從而再以四種指標評估英國加入歐元的主權得失的議題。本文的結論為: 隨著歐洲各經濟體益趨同質化，及英國與歐元區的政策聚合度的提升，加入歐元對英國經濟管理的正面效應將在全球化時代日益顯明，而主權損失的代價將可望減輕。

Abstract
The most significant requirement for joining in the Economic and Monetary Union (the EMU) for member states is to hand over economic sovereignty. For the UK, one of the three non-euro EU countries with a strong historical tradition of independence, this delegation of sovereignty seems to be a most demanding price to fulfill its EMU commitment. This paper aims to analyze and assess how the UK’s economic sovereignty would be lost and how its state governance would be affected by the EMU membership within the context of globalization. As the UK is one of the world’s most open economies and Europe’s premier financial center, which further implies its high vulnerability to changes of the world economy and finance, the emerging trend of contemporary globalization and its impact on state governance need to be reviewed first. Within such a context, the role of the EMU as a promoter of economic sovereignty of member states will be argued. This paper will then turn to the case of the UK to discuss how its economic sovereignty will be circumscribed within the EMU by evaluating four indicators. It concludes that, as European economies becomes more homogeneous, and policy convergences between the UK and the EMU increase, the positive effects of EMU membership on the UK’s economic governance in this era of globalization would be more illuminating, while the costs of a loss of sovereignty would be lessened.

關鍵字/Key Word
全球化、歐洲經濟與貨幣聯盟 (歐元)、英國、國家治理、經濟主權
globalization, the EMU (the euro), the UK, state governance, economic sovereignty

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學門分類/Subject
政治學 Political Science