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European Constitutionalism the Other Way Round: From the Periphery to the Centre

Edited by Jan Komárek · Birgit Aasa · Marina Bán · Michal Krajewski
New Arrival Cambridge University Press March 2026

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ISBN-13
9781009604079
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
March 2026
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The key argument of the volume is that post-1989 transformation deeply affected states and societies on both sides of the former Iron Curtain and was mutually constitutive. While post-communist Europe had to re-invent itself to be 'admitted' to the EU, the old member states and the EU changed too – less visibly, but no less profoundly. This volume examines these transformations from a new perspective, defined by scholars from post-communist Europe, who set the agenda of the volume in a series of workshops. Their colleagues from the 'West' were invited to reflect on the experience of their countries in the light of the questions and concerns defined in those workshops.

The authors include scholars from a variety of backgrounds: established and young, coming from all parts of the continent and having different views on the politics of European integration.

Table of Contents

1. Imagining statehood and constitutionalism in Europe: introduction Jan Komárek, Birgit Aasa, Marina Bán and Michał Krajewski

Part I. Nation States, Member States and Their Others:
2. Vicarious sovereignty: becoming European the Estonian way Maria Mälksoo
3. From federation to external constraint: Europe in the Italian constitutional imagination Marco Goldoni
4. Sovereignty and the misery of small eastern European Nations Hent Kalmo
5. Ruling Britannia Martin Loughlin
6. The power of concepts: from 'self-management' to 'sovereignty' in Soviet Estonia (1987–88) Juhan Saharov
7. European integration-ineffable aspiration or the object of concern? About the ambiguity of Europe in the Polish constitutional imaginary Aleksandra Kustra-Rogatka
8. The constitutionalised image of enemy in the Hungarian fundamental law Attila Antal

Part II. Bringing Back the Past (To Serve or Understand The Present?):
9. Political integration through constitutional memory? Historical constitution and community building in Hungary Kálmán Pócza
10. The constitutional concept of the historical constitution and illiberalism: the case of Hungary Tímea Drinóczi
11. Estonians' European imaginaries: the Soviet and pre-Soviet legacy Epp Annus
12. Czechoslovakia: Remembering and forgetting the failures of a state Mary Heimann
13. A constitution without qualities? three narratives about Austrian constitutional law Ulrich Wagrandl

Part III. The Varieties of Liberalism in Europe:
14. Rule of what law? Authoritarian pasts, liberal politics and constitutional imagination in early post-communist East Central Europe Michal Kopeček
15. From the facade to solid foundation? the evolution of the polish constitutional law discourse in years 1944–1989 Wojciech Zomerski
16. Nordic democratic exceptionality after the end of history: a neoliberalized constitutional imaginary? Johan Strang
17.
50 years of democratic constitutionalism in Portugal – between constitutional aspirations and the European path Mariana Canotilho
18. Constitutional drift – exploring the deeper roots of Polish constitutional crisis Karol Muszyński and Paweł Skuczyński
19. On the French constitutional imaginary: the erosion of the long-standing Republican tradition François-Xavier Millet
20. From legal impossibilism to the rule of law crisis: transitional justice and polish counter-constitutionalism Michał Krotoszyński
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