The European Union in Crisis: Explorations in Representation and Democratic Legitimacy [Paperback]

This volume is a comprehensive and rigorous exploration of intertwined issues surrounding the EU's democracy and legitimacy, written in the turbulent context of the financial crisis. The chapters are woven together under four interconnected thematic sections that examine: rapidly growing national euroscepticism; the Economic Monetary Union and its legitimacy; the future of EU integration; and democratic deficit(s) across its internal & external structure. The volume presents an authoritative collection of research results and surveys by experts in various disciplines related to the EU, and is addressed to researchers and students examining EU governance, representation and accountability, as well as practitioners across a multiplicity of fields.

Preface.-?Part I: National Euroscepticism.- Part II: European Monetary Union and Legitimacy Crisis.- Part III: The Future of EU Integration.- Part IV: Structural Democratic Deficits in the EU.Kyriakos N. Demetriou is Professor of the History of Political Thought at the University of Cyprus. He is the Executive Editor of Polis, The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought, 2002-present (UK), Overseeing Editor of Brill series Companions to Classical Reception and member of the advisory Board of Innovation. His research interests are in the areas of intellectual history, the history of classical reception, theories of democracy and liberalism, and the history of historiography. He is co-editor of John Stuart Mill: A British Socrates (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and editor of Democracy in Transition (Springer, 2013). He has published widely in international refereed journals and he is the author of, among others, Studies on the Reception of Plato and Greek Political Thought in Victorian Britain (Ashgate, 2011); Classics in the Nineteenth Century: Responses to George Grote