The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an important case study, on a global scale, of how democracy works - and fails to work - today. From leadership to citizenship, from due process to checks and balances, from globalization to misinformation, from solidarity within and across borders to the role of expertise, key democratic concepts both old and new are now being put to the test. The future of democracy around the world is at issue as today's governments manage their responses to the pandemic. Bringing together some of today's most creative thinkers, these essays offer a variety of inquiries into democracy during the global pandemic with a view to imagining post-crisis political conditions. Representing different regions and disciplines, including law, politics, philosophy, religion, and sociology, eighteen voices offer different outlooks - optimistic and pessimistic - on the future.

Joseph Weiler's The Transformation of Europe is one of the most influential works in the history of European studies. Twenty-five years after its original publication, this new collection of essays pays tribute to Weiler's legacy by discussing some of the most pressing issues in contemporary European Union law, policy and constitutionalism. The book does not intend to be a simple expression of intellectual esteem for Weiler's seminal work; instead, the collection honours it by critically engaging with some of its assumptions and theses. Overall, it shows how a study of 1991 can still be fundamental to the present and future of the EU, including the challenges of Brexit and Eurozone crises.

The European Union seems to have rescued its single currency, but it has not yet put an end to the crisis. In this major new book, a group of fifteen international philosophers, economists, political scientists, sociologists and legal experts compare the various interpretations of the European crisis (economic, political, constitutional, social and cultural). They describe the challenges the EU faces in relation to legitimacy and democracy and address head on the uncertainty over the future of Europe. The book consider different possible scenarios: from the Union's dissolution, with or without the continuation of the integration process, to its reinforcement, through the building of a political Union addressing the challenges of legitimacy, democracy and justice. Such a strengthened Union could mark a new stage for democracy, not the democracy of ancient cities and modern states, but the one convenient to the complex entities, neither national nor supra-national, of which the European Union, despite the crisis, is still today the best example.

The European Union seems to have rescued its single currency, but it has not yet put an end to the crisis. In this major new book, a group of fifteen international philosophers, economists, political scientists, sociologists and legal experts compare the various interpretations of the European crisis (economic, political, constitutional, social and cultural). They describe the challenges the EU faces in relation to legitimacy and democracy and address head on the uncertainty over the future of Europe. The book consider different possible scenarios: from the Union's dissolution, with or without the continuation of the integration process, to its reinforcement, through the building of a political Union addressing the challenges of legitimacy, democracy and justice. Such a strengthened Union could mark a new stage for democracy, not the democracy of ancient cities and modern states, but the one convenient to the complex entities, neither national nor supra-national, of which the European Union, despite the crisis, is still today the best example.