Making of a European Constitution

Professor Dr. Sonja Puntscher Riekmann is professor for Political Theory and European Integration at the University of Salzburg and Director of the Institute for European Integration Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Professor Dr. Wolfgang Wessels has the Jean Monnet Chair, Research Institute for Political Science and European Affairs at the University of Cologne.

• European Constitutionalism at the Crossroads.- European Constitutionalism at the Crossroads.- The Making of a European Constitution: Processes and Methods.- The Constitutionalisation of the European Union — Without the Constitutional Treaty.- Getting to a European Constitution: From Fischer to the IGC.- The Convention Method: An Institutional Device for Consensus-building.- Deliberation and Compromise in the Shadow of Bargaining.- The Dynamics of the Two-Level Process of Constitution Building.- The Making of a European Constitution: Influences and Perceptions.- The Impact of Constitutional Traditions on the EU-Reform Discourse in Austria, France, Germany and the UK.- Political Elites and the Future of Europe: The Views of MPs and MEPs.- Publicized Discourses on the Post-Nice Process.- The Ratification of the Constitution and the European Public Sphere.

"Insgesamt verdeutlichen die Beiträge die Relevanz der bisherigen verfassungspolitischen Debatten und Anstengungen, die Brauchbarkeit der dabei praktizierten Verfahren sowie die mit einer vollständigen Abkehr vom einmal eingeschlagenen Weg verbundenen Risiken." Das Historisch-Politische Buch, 06/2007