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From the start of the European integration process, one question has puzzled scholars: what type of political association is the European Union? In absence of an agreed upon response, most scholars have suggested that the European Union is 'sui generis'. This book challenges the sui generisthesis by demonstrating that the EU is not a unique form of association, but rather a federal union of states, or what this book calls a federation. This is a discrete form of political association on par with, though differentiated from, political modernity's two other main forms, namely the stateand the empire.The federation cannot be understood on the basis of the general theory of the state or its concept of sovereignty. The 'statist' imaginary still dominates both the debates on federalism and the EU, meaning that all federal policies are either seen as 'confederal' associations of sovereign states orsovereign federal states. This book challenges this binary by demonstrating that the federation is not a 'super state' but a discrete political form with its own constitutional theory. It is characterized by a double political existence, a lack of internal hierarchy, and the internal absence,contestation, or repression of sovereignty. This book details the key aspects of federal constitutional theory and how this theory accounts for the EU's constitutional form as well as the crises it has faced in recent years.This book is broken into five chapters that cover the introduction to federalism, origins of the EU, state transformation and teleology, unity in diversity, and emergency rule without a sovereign. This book draws on a variety of literatures and historical material to help the reader develop acritical understanding of 'constitutional myths' and the theory of federalism.

Federal government --- Philosophy. --- European Union. --- Division of powers --- Federal-provincial relations --- Federal-state relations --- Federal systems --- Federalism --- Powers, Division of --- Provincial-federal relations --- State-federal relations --- Political science --- Central-local government relations --- Decentralization in government --- Law and legislation --- E.U. --- European Union --- European integration --- political geography --- federal state --- European constitution --- Euroopa põhiseadus --- Constituția Europeană --- costituzione europea --- europeiskt författning --- Euroopan perustuslaki --- konstytucja europejska --- Kostituzzjoni Ewropea --- Kushtetuta Europiane --- Europos konstitucija --- europski ustav --- constitution européenne --- europæisk forfatning --- európai alkotmány --- Constituição Europeia --- Europäische Verfassung --- Европски устав --- európska ústava --- Evropska ustava --- Европейска конституция --- evropská ústava --- Bunreacht na hEorpa --- Europese Grondwet --- ευρωπαϊκό σύνταγμα --- Eiropas Konstitūcija --- Constitución europea --- Euroopa põhiseaduse leping --- Kushtetuta për Europën --- trattato che adotta una Costituzione per l'Europa --- Constitutional Treaty --- Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe --- Ustav Europske unije --- Tratado que estabelece uma Constituição para a Europa --- Уставен договор --- Устав за Европа --- Verfassungsvertrag --- Ustav EU-a --- konstitutionella fördraget --- Vertrag über eine Verfassung für Europa --- forfatningstraktat --- põhiseaduse leping --- Conradh ag bunú Bunreachta don Eoraip --- Устав на ЕУ --- europeiskt fördrag --- Alkotmányszerződés --- Pogodba o Ustavi za Evropo --- traité constitutionnel --- Alkotmányos Szerződés --- Tratatul de instituire a unei Constituții pentru Europa --- Ustavni ugovor --- Trattat Kostituzzjonali --- Tratado Constitucional --- traktat om en forfatning for Europa --- trattato costituzionale --- Sutartis dėl Konstitucijos Europai --- Traktat Kushtetues --- Устав Европске уније --- Договор за Конституция --- Pogodba o Ustavi --- Constitution for Europe --- traité établissant une Constitution pour l'Europe --- traktat konstytucyjny --- Договор за създаване на Конституция за Европа --- az európai alkotmány létrehozásáról szóló szerződés --- συνταγματική συνθήκη --- traktat ustanawiający Konstytucję dla Europy --- perustuslakisopimus --- sopimus Euroopan perustuslaista --- Conradh an Bhunreachta --- συνθήκη για τη θέσπιση Συντάγματος της Ευρώπης --- fördraget om upprättande av en konstitution för Europa --- Konstitucionālais līgums --- Kushtetuta e BE-së --- Устав Европе --- Tratado por el que se establece una Constitución para Europa --- Konstitucijos sutartis --- Verdrag tot vaststelling van een Grondwet voor Europa --- EU Constitution --- līgums par Konstitūciju Eiropai --- Tratat constituțional --- Нацрт-договор за воспоставување Устав за Европа (не е ратификуван) --- Constitutioneel Verdrag --- Ugovor kojim se uspostavlja europski ustav --- Traktati Themelues i Kushtetutës për Europën --- ústavná zmluva --- ústavní smlouva --- Договорот за воспоставување Устав за Европа --- zvezna država --- liitriik --- forbundsstat --- федерална држава --- federatīva valsts --- ομοσπονδιακό κράτος --- liittovaltio --- stat federal --- federace --- Stat federali --- Stato federale --- szövetségi állam --- savezna država --- państwo federalne --- federatívny štát --- федерална държава --- савезна држава --- federale staat --- Bundesstaat --- federacinė valstybė --- förbundsstat --- Estado federal --- Shtet federal --- État fédéral --- неунитарна држава --- сложена држава --- Föderativstaat --- сојузна држава --- spolkový stát --- föderativer Staat --- föderatív állam --- federalna država --- federální stát --- federativní republika --- federativní stát --- politický zemepis --- geografía política --- politinė geografija --- geografia polityczna --- poliitiline geograafia --- gjeografi politike --- politisk 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Europäische Integration --- integrazione europea --- integrare europeană --- Euroopan integraatio --- non Europa --- Euroopa lõimimine --- unificazione europea --- Eiropas apvienošana --- Europos vienijimas --- unificare europeană --- zjednotenie Európy --- European unification --- europeisk konvergens --- integrazione della CE --- evropské sbližování --- sjednocení Evropy --- integrazione comunitaria --- интеграција во Европската Унија --- Europese convergentie --- convergência europeia --- convergence européenne --- европско обединување --- σύγκλιση ευρωπαϊκών πολιτικών --- convergencia europea --- Europäische Konvergenz --- evropská konvergence --- convergenza europea --- unifikim europian --- europæisk konvergens --- európai egységesülési folyamat --- Union européenne --- Europese Unie --- Europska unija --- União Europeia --- Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση --- Európska únia --- Európai Unió --- Europäische Union --- Europos Sąjunga --- Evropská unie --- Европска унија --- Unjoni Ewropea --- 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