Publication: From Maastricht to Brexit

From Maastricht to Brexit

Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship in the EU

Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione

Is the European Union still a viable project? The last few years have been difficult both economically and politically, while its integrative function and legitimacy have been seriously tested. For many social, economic and geo-political reasons, its expansionary moment has stopped abruptly. On the contrary, the Greek economic crisis and the Brexit referendum have raised the spectre of fragmentation and political disintegration.

The promise of the EU as a possible model for legitimate governance beyond the nation state lies somewhat in tatters. Even if the EU may indeed survive most of its current crises, is the EU as a normative project beyond rescue? In 'From Maastricht to Brexit', Richard Bellamy and Dario Castiglione explore the democratic form and legitimacy of the EU, tracing the twenty-year academic journey of intellectual and scholarly debates that have contributed to shaping their understanding and expectations of the EU's possible futures.

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About the authors

Richard Bellamy is Director of the Max Weber Programme at the EUI and Professor of Political Science at UCL.

Dario Castiglione is Director of the Centre for Political Thought at the University of Exeter.