Is Constitutionalizing the World Order the Answer?

Abstract

At that point, the question for Europe becomes: How should it use its preference for norms? Should it wave them like a flag in international forums even if Europe does not have the means to plant them firmly on the international scene? Or on the contrary, should Europe more boldly assert its preference for norms so that it becomes shared by the entire world system? In that case, the issue would seem to be to standardize norms, codify them, make them consistent, and rank them, in other words, to constitutionalize the world order. The outcome of global governance would logically be the constitutionalization of the world order.