Polity and Crisis Reflections on the European Odyssey

Editors’ Preface; Part I Constitutional Challenges of the Eurozone Crisis; Chapter 1 The Eurozone Crisis as a Constitutional Crisis, Kaarlo Tuori; Chapter 2 The European Crisis – Paradoxes of Constitutionalizing Democratic Capitalism, Hauke Brunkhorst; Chapter 3 The Economics of Constitutional Renewal, Emilios Christodoulidis; Chapter 4 Finding our Way Back to Europe?, Michelle Everson; Part II Can European Democracy Be Saved For Democracy?; Chapter 5 Thomas Hobbes Reading the EU as a Polity, Sakari Hänninen; Chapter 6 Reinventing European Democracy Democratization and the Existential Crisis of the EU, Ari Hirvonen; Chapter 7 Which Democracy for Which Demos?, RBJ Walker; Chapter 8 Law, Community and ultima ratio in Transnational Law, Massimo Fichera; Part III Europe as a Post-National Polity?; Chapter 9 Nordic Democracy Facing the EU: Traditions, Myths and Challenges, Pia Letto-Vanamo; Chapter 10 Governance Networks as a Means to Enhance European Democracy, Eva Sørensen, Tore Vincents Olsen; Chapter 11 Patterns of Post-National Europe: The Future of Integration after the Crisis of Monetary Union, Giandomenico Majone; Chapter 12 Sovereignty, Organized Hypocrisy, the Paradox of Post-9/11 International Relations, Patricia Springborg;

Biography

Massimo Fichera is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law. He has been a member of the Centre of Excellence in Foundations of European Law and Polity Research, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki and previously completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests lie in constitutional theory and the intersection between EU and international law. He has co-edited Law and Security in Europe: Reconsidering the Security Constitution (with Jens Kremer, Intersentia 2013). Sakari Hänninen is Research Professor at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland. Prior to that he has collaborated with the Centre of Excellence in Foundations of European law and Polity Research, Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki and was Professor of Political Science at the University of Jyväskylä. He has written and edited more than twenty books in political theory, power analytics, welfare politics, regimes of governance and social exclusion studies, as well as articles in scientific journals. Kaarlo Tuori is Academy Professor at the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Law. He has published extensively in the area of legal and constitutional theory, including the monographs Critical Legal Positivism (Ashgate 2002) and Ratio and Voluntas (Ashgate 2010). He has also co-edited The Many Constitutions of Europe (with Suvi Sankari, Ashgate 2010) and co-authored The Eurozone Crisis: A Constitutional Analysis (with Klaus Tuori, Cambridge University Press 2014). He has directed the Centre of Excellence in Foundations of European Law and Polity Research (University of Helsinki) and is a member and former Vice-president of the Venice Commission.

"Much has been written on the Euro crisis over the last few years but most has had a reactive, breathless quality. This collection, featuring some of the most established scholars on European integration and some interesting new thinkers, is the best attempt yet to situate the crisis, and all possible responses to the crisis, squarely within the broader legal, political, economic and historical context of European supranationalism. It is a book that all serious EU scholars should have on their shelves, and also a fascinating and accessible resource for those seeking to learn about contemporary Europe and its tribulations." - Neil Walker, University of Edinburgh, UK

"A choral volume rich in insights where the reader will find genuinely different diagnoses of the European crises from a wealth of disciplinary and normative viewpoints. A powerful challenge to the status quo on European studies." - Agustín José Menéndez, University of León, Spain, and ARENA, University of Oslo, Norway

"This book provides an inter-disciplinary, multi-national, trans-generational account of the state of the Union. The multi-faceted pluralism has its common inspirational background in the work of the Helsinki Centre of Excellence in the Foundations of European Law. It is both an accomplishment of and a tribute to the Centre's renowned Director, Kaarlo Tuori." - Christian Joerges, Hertie School of Governance, Germany