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9780739133347

EU Federalism and Constitutionalism The Legacy of Altiero Spinelli

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  • ISBN13:

    9780739133347

  • ISBN10:

    0739133349

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-10-21
  • Publisher: Lexington Books

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Summary

EU Federalism and Constitutionalism: The Legacy of Altiero Spinelli, edited by Andrew Glencross and Alexander H. Trechsel, represents the first book-length study of the travails of the implementation of federalism at the European level from the perspective of Altiero Spinelli's ideas and his political life, which were both devoted to a federally united Europe. It is also a timely publication given the protracted struggle to implement a new EU institutional architecture-the 2009 Lisbon Treaty-that is already being tested by the fallout from the global financial crisis. This fallout has brought into stark relief the tensions within the EU over the question of enhancing solidarity and federal unity or remaining a looser association of sovereign states. By examining the successes and failures of federalism within the EU system, this book seeks to explain not only how the EU has reached its current impasse but also how it may fare in the future. To achieve this objective, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach, that covers all three dimensions of the European project: historical, legal, and political. In this fashion, Andrew Glencross and Alexander H. Trechsel's EU Federalism and Constitutionalism: The Legacy of Altiero Spinelli offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the history, evolution, and future of federal principles and institutions in the European integration process. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Andrew Glencross is lecturer in politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen. Alexander H. Trechsel is professor of political science and the first full-time holder of the Swiss chair in federalism and democracy at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.

Table of Contents

List of Tablesp. vii
Forewordp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Introductionp. xv
The Constitutional Dimension
The ôSpinelli Treatyö of February 1984: The Start of the Process of Constitutionalizing the EUp. 3
Taking ôConstitutionalismö and ôLegitimacyö Seriouslyp. 11
The Comparative Dimension
Revisiting Altiero Spinelli: Why to Look at the European Union through the American Experiencep. 35
Altiero Spinelli and the Idea of the U.S. Constitution as a Model for Europe: The Promises and Pitfalls of an Analogyp. 65
Political Actors and the Institutional Dimension
The Question of Treaty Architecture: From the ôSpinelli Draftö to the Lisbon Treatyp. 87
François Mitterrand and the Spinelli Treaty of 1984: Support or Instrumentalization?p. 103
Conclusion Altiero Spinelli and the Future of the European Unionp. 117
Bibliographyp. 131
Indexp. 143
About the Contributorsp. 149
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