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The Undecided Power: A Constitutional History of the European Union, 1948-2007

The Undecided Power: A Constitutional History of the European Union, 1948-2007

Schorkopf, Frank
Hiley, Margaret

Hardcover

General European HistoryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 3112241339
ISBN13: 9783112241332
Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Published: Aug 3 2026
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.06 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The book traces the political struggles of politicians and civil servants, judges and academics to establish a European Union from the Hague Congress of Europe in 1948 to the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007. Frank Schorkopf reconstructs the project of a European political order as a coexistence and collaboration between three lines of thinking - constitutionalism, governmentalism, and pragmatism - in which constitutional authority is undecided. The sixteen chapters make it clear that although the actors wanted to create something new, they were hardly able to break away from their constitutional-history perspectives and were constantly confronted with classic questions about the architecture of power: questions of legitimacy and acceptance, of fundamental rights protection and identity.

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