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policing, which is taken as the hallmark of the empirical statehood and the internal
territoriality. It seems that the member states are increasingly turned into quasi-states,
which are strong in internal territoriality and empirical statehood, but weak in external
territoriality and juridical statehood
Proposition (6): European states are increasingly becoming quasi-state, weak in their
external territoriality and juridical statehood, but still strong in the internal territoriality
and empirical statehood
As the elaboration of the proposition (5) shows, the European states experience
continuities and changes in their spatial dimensions, their territoriality, and respectively
in the components of their statehood in the context of the European Integration, which
involves a partial reterritroialization. Partial reterritorialziation refers to the pattern in
which while rights to make authoritative decisions in specific policy areas, hallmark of
juridical statehood, are shifting to the EU level, capacity to rule, which is hallmark of
empirical statehood, remains disposed at the national level. While in the empirical
components of the states, it is possible to see continuities and even reinforcements, they
undergo important changes in their juridical components, which could be in the
reconfiguration of their territoriality and its dimensions. In that sense, the European states
increasingly take the form of Type II quasi-stateness with strong internal territoriality and
empirical statehood and weak external territoriality and juridical statehood.
CONLUSION
This paper had a modest agenda with great significance for theoretical and
empirical studies of the European politics. The question of changes and continuities is
one of the central questions of the European Politics. The students of the European
politics still have to systematically address this fundamental question. The existing
attempts in the literature have either addressed the question indirectly and imprecise
Convention