Political Theory of the European Union

Edited by Jürgen Neyer and Antje Wiener

An innovative attempt to present a Political Theory of the European Union
Contributors are leading experts in their respective fields

Political Theory of the European Union

Edited by Jürgen Neyer and Antje Wiener

Description

Debate about the theory underpinning the nature, workings, and development of the European (EU) has in many ways been hampered in recent years by an intellectual divergence in the two main ways that the EU is conceptualized. On the one hand is a political science and comparative government oriented strand that sees the EU as a political system in its own right. On the other is the international relations tradition which conceptualizes it as another international organization. Alongside this, the EU itself has developed a significant constitutional dimension. Indeed, the debate surrounding the 'Constitutional Treaty' presented several challenges to our capacity to grasp the normative change of this non-state polity. Despite the eventual contestation of the EU's 'constitutional turn' through the French and Dutch no-votes and the cumbersome procedure of ratifying the Lisbon Treaty in their aftermath, debates about the EU's constitutional quality have not ceased. In the light of these developments, the editors of this volume, along with their distinguished contributors, have attempted to create a more decisively interdisciplinary theoretical approach to studying the EU within the wider world-political context. The volume brings together scholars in a range of disciplines across the social sciences to offer, not a complete theory, but rather a theoretical approach combining different stands of political and legal theory. The book's aim is to inspire further engagement with the central tenets of political authority and world order, sovereignty and constitutional change and democracy and justice, in the context of the EU's political development.

Political Theory of the European Union

Edited by Jürgen Neyer and Antje Wiener

1:Introduction: The State of the Art of a Non-State-Oriented Political Theory, Jürgen Neyer and Antje Wiener
Part I: Political Authority in a Changing World Order
2:Empire Europe: Statehood and Political Authority in the Process of Regional Integration, Ulrich Beck and Edgar Grande
3:Un-National Normative Justification for European Union Foreign Policy, Ian Manners
4:A State-Less Vanguard for a Rightful World Order, Erik O. Eriksen
Part II: Sovereignty and Constitutional Change
5:Surface and Depth: The EU's Resilient Sovereignty Question, Neil Walker
6:How Does European Union Law Fit into the World of Public Law? Costa, Kadi, and Three Conceptions of Public Law, Mattias Kumm
7:Politics, Power, and a European Law of Suspicion, Michelle Everson
Part III: Democracy and Justice
8:Europe's Justice Deficit: Justification and Legitimacy in The European Union, Jürgen Neyer
9:The Promise of 'Demoi-Cracy': Democracy, Diversity, and Domination in the European Public Order, Jan-Werner Müller
10:Non-State Oriented Political Theory: A Critical Assessment, Andreas Føllesdal
11:Conclusion: Through Uncharted Waters of Constitutional Quality: Navigating Between Modern Statehood and International Organisation, Antje Wiener
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Political Theory of the European Union

Edited by Jürgen Neyer and Antje Wiener

Author Information

Edited by Jürgen Neyer, Chair in Political Science, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt, and Antje Wiener, Chair in Political Science and Global Governance, University of Hamburg

Contributors:

Ulrich Beck, Professor for Sociology, University of Munich, the British Journal of Sociology Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and Senior Fellow, Harvard Design School.
Erik O. Eriksen, Professor and Director of ARENA, Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo.
Michelle Everson, Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Andreas Follesdal, Professor and Director of Research, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo.
Edgar Grande, Professor for Political Science, University of Munich.
Mattias Kumm, Professor of Law, New York University.
Ian Manners, Professor at the Institute for Society and Globalization, Roskilde University.
Jan-Werner Müller teaches in the Politics Department, Princeton University.
Jürgen Neyer, Professor and Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Transformation Studies at the European University Viadrina.
Neil Walker, Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, University of Edinburgh
Antje Wiener, Professor of Political Science and Global Governance and Member of the Board of Directors at the Centre for Globalisation and Governance, University of Hamburg.