Republicanism, EU democracy and differentiated (dis-)integration

Few debates in political theory are challenged as much by the constant change of their empirical subject as those about democracy in the European Union (EU). With A Republican Europe of States, Richard Bellamy responds to the EU’s post-Lisbon era, which has been characterized by the euro crisis, con...

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Published in:European Journal of Political Theory 2022-01, Vol.21 (1), p.178-186
Main Author: Patberg, Markus
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Citizenship
Democracy
Democratization
Dominance
EU membership
Euroscepticism
Migration
Nation states
Republicanism
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Summary:Few debates in political theory are challenged as much by the constant change of their empirical subject as those about democracy in the European Union (EU). With A Republican Europe of States, Richard Bellamy responds to the EU’s post-Lisbon era, which has been characterized by the euro crisis, conflicts over migration, the rise of Euroscepticism and Brexit. Keeping an eye on these contextual conditions and the related legal and political transformations, he has developed a general theory of international democracy aimed at securing non-domination between peoples and between citizens and their representatives at the international level, and elaborated its implications for the EU. The result is a distinctive version of demoi-cracy, whose firm centring on the nation-state as the natural locus of democracy is likely to be controversially discussed. In this article, I raise some critical considerations regarding the design of demoi-cratic institutions, the adequate understanding of EU citizenship and the normative credentials of differentiated (dis-)integration.
ISSN:1474-8851
1741-2730
DOI:10.1177/1474885119900324