A Republican Europe of States
Cambridge University Press, 1/31/2019
EAN 9781107678125, ISBN10: 1107678129
Paperback, 280 pages, 22.7 x 15.1 x 1.4 cm
Language: English
Combining international political theory and EU studies, Richard Bellamy provides an original account of the democratic legitimacy of international organisations. He proposes a new interpretation of the EU's democratic failings and how they might be addressed. Drawing on the republican theory of freedom as non-domination, Bellamy proposes a way to combine national popular sovereignty with the pursuit of fair and equitable relations of non-domination among states and their citizens. Applying this approach to the EU, Bellamy shows that its democratic failings lie not with the democratic deficit at the EU level but with a democratic disconnect at the member state level. Rather than shifting democratic authority to the European Parliament, this book argues that the EU needs to reconnect with the different 'demoi' of the member states by empowering national parliaments in the EU policy-making process.
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.