In this book Professor Verhoeven offers a clear synthesis and analysis of the current state of the European Union as a constitutional project. While she recogni... » 

In this book Professor Verhoeven offers a clear synthesis and analysis of the current state of the European Union as a constitutional project. While she recognizes the continuity of this project with social contract theory and the federal ideal and uncovers the specific aspects of democracy and constitutionalism the EU has already embraced she shows how the terms and presuppositions of those persistent conceptual frameworks must be fundamentally revised. At the root of these necessary revisions lies the irreversible onset of multiculturalism and globalisation, twin challenges that force us to reconsider issues of sovereignty and self-governance. «