A group of scholars has shown that the theory of constituent power—which seeks to
describe and justify the dismantling of the constitutional order and its replacement with a …

The euro crisis, rising Euroscepticism, and Brexit have once again highlighted the European
Union's unresolved legitimacy deficit. Increasingly, citizens claim to have been illegitimately …

Abstract The Liberal International Order (LIO) is under pressure from various angles. To
account for this phenomenon, a recent trend is to focus on endogenous sources of …

This article draws attention to an aspect that thus far has escaped systematic scrutiny in the
theoretical literature on the political legitimacy of global governance–functions. It does so by …

This paper applies the concept of emergency powers to the crisis politics of international
organizations (IOs). In the recent past, IOs like the UN Security Council, the WHO, and the …

Modern constitutionalism is based on the notion of constituent power. Constituent power
signals that constitutional orders are made, not found, and that their authorship of last resort …

Transnational social movements, campaigns and individual activists have described their
activities in the traditional vocabularies of political dissent: as protest, opposition …

The democratic management of macroeconomic externalities between Members of the
Economic and Monetary Union requires abandoning the legal entrenchment of fiscal rules …

In this article, I elaborate a conceptual innovation that underlies, if only in nascent form,
Jürgen Habermas's notion of pouvoir constituant mixte and could significantly advance …

This article presents a rational reconstruction of the practice of constitutional politics in
supranational polities. In doing so, it seeks to refocus the ongoing debate about constituent …