Who Govern's the Globe? "Authority of the European Union"

In McNamara's text, she expands on the less well known repercussions of the formation of the EU and why its creation provided a social safety net through cultural programs. Historically, It is often the case that scholars overview the economic policy areas and the implications of the EU financial capacity. It is important that we continue to build an awareness of the distinct  non-market and social policies that were created to facilitate a cultural umbrella for the region. Regional integration had significant ramifications to the emergent European identity. There was a national vibe where member states that appeared to substantiate their shared interests followed the pursuit of like mindedness and cultural transaction. The American experience has tried to compare the conditions of the Civil War to the formation of the European union, but the resulting factors of these events differed. The EU exists as a regional system of international relations among sovereign states to stop the cycle of war among member states. On the other hand, the US Civil war engaged in formal civil conflict to sustain a central federal government. The distinction is that US states are restricted from the practice of foreign policy, whereas the EU is able to do so. McNamera might have also touched on this distinction in other writings, but her focus challenged the European mindset as a response to social stimuli in having a valid role to create a new category of authority.
  
The creation of the European Central Bank and the euro provides us with examples of a collective vision for a more stable market in the European public sphere. Had their been other opportunities to construct shared values of  through policy trade agreements, we might not be able to trace material changes of the transition from divided Europe to a symbolic body of Europe. These are not technical terms, yet before the European Union came about smaller states had less influence than other states with cultural and economic dominance. McNamara expands on how monetary policy, market regulation and market integration achieves a sense of collective decision-making in dispensing with previous barriers to trade standards. But, I sensed from this article that there was consideration for the possibilities of culturally embedded gains for the smaller, less powerful members states that were emerging during that time.  Countries such as Estonia, Cyprus, Malta, and Latvia could now be considered as economically comparable on a global scale since, they were able to interface with bigger institutional structures. Shared currency also highly symbolic of nationalist identity. Clearly, we can accept that the structural and financial changes of the European landscape was also part of the project of locating culture and shared ideologies.
  
The notion of being culturally "embedded" calls into question: how does the creation of the euro act as a symbolic construction of legitimate authority beyond social consent. I think It resonates within the Soft-shelled autonomous mode of person-hood in  Professor Jackson's lower left hand quadrant --because of there is an interplay between expansive body versus integrated political body dynamic. The overall notion of united social and economic identity is comprehensive in the sense that .  intertwining of EU involvement in the member states' economies and societies has resulted in a "europeanization" of political life within the member states.