Europe's Hidden Federalism: Federal Experiences of European Integration

ISBN-13: 9780367881412 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 230 str.

Bojan Kovacevic

Opis

This book explores the European Union’s hidden federal features and exposes the challenges of legitimacy, democracy and freedom facing an unfinished political community.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I: Federalism and the Modern State – Friends or Foes?

Chapter 2: Federalism, Freedom and Order

Chapter 3: Federalism and Democracy

Chapter 4: Federalism and the Making of Nations

Chapter 5: Federalism and the Challenge of Legitimacy

Chapter 6: The Challenge of Carl Schmitt for the Theory and Practice of Federalism

Part II: An Attempt to Build European Federation in the Absence of Europeans

Chapter 7: Federal Features of the European Union

Chapter 8: Federalism and Democracy in the European Union

Chapter 9:Political Citizenship Deficit in the EU – Relevancy of the Historical Models of Federal Nation Building

Conclusion: Hidden Federalism and Crisis

O autorze

Bojan Kovačević is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade. As a Swiss Government scholarship holder he wrote his PhD thesis 'Federal features of the EU governance system' at the Institute of Federalism, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His research interests include history of political thought, modern political theory, political systems, theory of federalism and political theory of constitutionalism. At the Faculty of political sciences he teaches at the following courses: 'EU constitutionalism', 'Governing compound political communities', 'Managing crisis in the European Union', 'Political system of European Union' and 'Regionalism in the European Union'. He has published two books in Serbian, Hidden Federalism. Federal Features of the European Integration Process [Skriveni Federalizam. Federalističko iskustvo u procesima evropskih integracija] (Albatros plus, Belgrade, 2013) and The Role of the Regions in the EU’s Political and Economic System [Mesto i uloga regiona u političkom i ekonomskom sistemu Evropske unije] (Službeni glasnik, Belgrade, 2009). The book Hidden federalism, Federal experiences in the European integration process (in Serbian) was shortlisted for the award 'Nikola Milošević' (Radio Belgrade 2), as one of the three best Serbian books in the field of philosophy, theory of literature and esthetics in 2013.