The Tangled Complexity of the EU Constitutional Process

The Frustrating Knot of Europe

Giuseppe Martinico

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780367467036
• eBook ISBN: 9781000630695
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

Offering a fresh view on the EU constitutionalisation process, the new edition of The Tangled Complexity of the EU Constitutional Process presents three main points: the idea of constitutional complexity, the tension between constitutional evolutionism and constitutional constructivism in the process of European integration, and the functional nature of conflicts in the evolution of the EU. Because of its prodigiousness, European law produces consternation among constitutionalists accustomed to traditional patterns of power.

This book argues that while constitutional conflicts have frequently been depicted as elements of disturbance along the path towards legal coherence, they are physiological and might even be functional to the development of the European legal order, which should not be understood in a deterministic manner.

The new edition will be of particular interest to academics and students in the disciplines of law, international relations, and political science.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface to the second edition: Why a new edition?
• Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition
• 1 Only a drop in the ocean? An attempt to classify the debate about the notion and the nature of the European Constitution
• 2 Dealing with constitutional theories of European integration
• 3 Constructivism, evolutionism and (mega) constitutional politics in the EU from 1992 to 2010
• 4 The multiple crises of the European Union (2011–2021)
• 5 Complexity in action: from the structure to the actors
• 6 On the future of constitutional conflicts
• Index