Republican Europe of States - Cosmopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in the Eu

Exames the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers demoicracy as the cure.

List of contents

Introduction: democratic legitimacy and international institutions - republican intergovernmentalism, cosmopolitan statism, and the demoicratic reconnection of the EU; Part I. Cosmopolitanism, Statism and Republicanism: Democracy, Legitimacy and Sovereignty: 1. Cosmopolitism and statism: global interdependence and national self-determination; 2. Justice, legitimacy and republicanism: non-domination and the global circumstances of legitimate politics; 3. Sovereignty, republicanism and the democratic legitimacy of the EU; Part II. A Republican EU of Sovereign States: Republican Intergovernmentalism, Demoicracy and Non-Domination: 4. Representing the people's of Europe: addressing the demoicratic disconnect; 5. Union citizenship - supra- and post-national, trans-national or inter-national?; 6 Differentiated integration and the demoicratic constitution of the EU; Conclusion: the global trilemma, the future of the EU and Brexit.

About the author

Richard Bellamy is Professor of Political Science at University College London, and Director of the Max Weber Programme, European University Institute, Florence. His previous books include Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy (Cambridge, 2007), which won the David and Elaine Spitz Prize in 2009, and, as co-editor, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge, 2003).

Summary

Bellamy deploys a novel republican account of the legitimacy of international organisations, to locate the EU's democratic deficiencies and their resolution at the national rather than the supranational level. This is for readers interested in global democracy, global justice, the statism-cosmopolitanism debate, EU politics, and republican theory.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Bellamy, Richard (University College London) Bellamy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781107678125
• ISBN: 978-1-107-67812-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, EU (European Union), International institutions, Central / national / federal government policies, Elections & referenda, EU & European institutions, Central government policies, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Elections and referenda / suffrage