European Crisis and the Transformation of Transnational Governance

Christian Joerges was Professor of Law and Society at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, and Co-Director of the Centre of European Law and Politics at the University of Bremen.Carola Glinski is a Researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 'Transformations of the State', at the University of Bremen.

• Chapter 1Three Transformations of Europe and the Search for a Way Out of its Crisis Christian JoergesChapter 2Compensating for Democracy’s ‘Defects’: The Case of International Investment Law David SchneidermanTwo Comments Global Exceptionalism and the Euro Crisis: Schmittian Challenges to Conflicts-Law Constitutionalism Christian Kreuder-SonnenThe Moment of Schmittian Truth: Conceiving of the State of Exception in the Wake of the Financial Crisis Ming-Sung KuoSection 2: From Social Welfare to Economic Competitiveness through Social Austerity?Chapter 3The Struggle for Union Rights Under the Euro and the Dialectics of Social Integration Florian Rödl & Raphaël CallsenChapter 4Labour Market Governance in Wake of the Crisis: Reflections and Possibilities Kerry RittichSection 3: Political Projects and the Logic of the MarketChapter 5Of Capitalist Nostalgia and Financialisation: Shareholder Primacy in the Court of Justice Harm SchepelChapter 6External Effects and Legal Constraints of the German ‘Energiewende’: A Search for Sound Responses to European Conflict ConstellationsCarola GlinskiChapter 7Re-embedding EU Governance Fields: A Research Agenda Jotte MulderPART II: A Crisis of Europe’s Regulatory Politics: The Turn to Executive FederalismSection 1: Whither the European ‘Regulatory State’?Chapter 8Challenging Executive Dominance in European Democracy Deirdre CurtinChapter 9A Technocracy of Governing: Power Without the State; Power without the Market Michelle EversonChapter 10Deliberative Supranationalism in the Euro Crisis? The European Central Bank and The European Council in Times of Conflict Henning DetersSection 2: Whither ‘Deliberative Supranationalism’?Chapter 11Comitology After Lisbon: What is Left of Comitology as We Have Praised it? Josef FalkeChapter 12Risk Regulation, GMOs, and the Challenges to Deliberation in EU Governance: Politicisation and Scientification as Co-Producing Trends Maria WeimerPart III: Deliberative Qualities of Conflict Resolution Beyond the EUChapter 13Conflict Mediation Through International Agencies: The Case of the UN Specialised Agency for Informationand Communications Technologies Olga BaturaChapter 14Professionalisation Contra Technocracy: Global Governance, Reflective Practice, and the constitutionalisation of the Transnational Sphere Martin HerbergPart IV: Contextualising Conflicts-Law ConstitutionalismChapter 15Experimenting Constitutionalism in the EU: Co-ordinating Legal Difference Through Mutual Recognition, Mutual Law and Mutual Learning Joseph CorkinChapter 16‘Conflicts Law as Europe’s Constitutional Form’ … and the Conflict of Social Norms as its Infrastructure Karl-Heinz LadeurEpilogueHow to Make it More Complicated Again? The European Constitutional Evolution between Kantian and Managerial Mindset Hauke Brunkhorst

At a time when European legal scholars are still wrestling with the theoretical and normative underpinnings of the post-crisis governance architecture, [this book] could not be more necessary.