Democratic legitimacy and international institutions -- republican intergovernmentalism, cosmopolitan statism, and the demoi-cratic reconnection of the EU -- Cosmopolitism and statism: global interdependence and national self-determination -- Justice, legitimacy and republicanism: non-domination and the global -- Sovereignty, republicanism and the democratic legitimacy of the EU -- Representing the people's of Europe: addressing the demoi-cratic disconnect -- Union citizenship -- supra- and post-national, trans-national or inter- national? -- Differentiated integration and the demoicratic constitution of the EU -- The global trilemma, the future of the EU and Brexit.
Summary
"This book offers an account of the democratic legitimacy of global institutions in general and of the European Union (EU) in particular. That may seem at best a thankless and at worst an impossible task at a time when such organisations have come under increasing attack for undermining democracy at the domestic level without adequately compensating for this loss at the supra- or trans- national level"--