Polity and crisis : reflections on the European odyssey / edited by Massimo Fichera, University of Helsinki, Finland; Sakari Hänninen, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland; Kaarlo Tuori, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Eurozone crisis as a constitutional crisis / Kaarlo Tuori -- The European crisis - paradoxes of constitutionalizing democractic capitalism / Hauke Brunkhorst -- The economics of constitutional renewal / Emilios Christodoulidis -- Finding our way back to Europe? / Michelle Everson -- Thomas Hobbes reading the EU as a polity / Sakari Hänninen -- Reinventing European democracy : democratization and the existential crisis of the EU / Ari Hirvonen -- Which democracy for which demos? / R.B.J. Walker -- Law, community and ultima ratio in transnational law / Massimo Fichera -- Nordic democracy facing the EU : traditions, myths and challenges / Pia Letto-Vanamo -- Governance networks as a means to enchance European democracy / Eva Sørensen and Tore Vincents Olsen -- Patterns of post-national Europe : the future of integration after the crisis of monetary union / Giandomenico Majone -- Sovereignty, organinized hypocrisy, the paradox of post-9/11 international relations / Patricia Springborg.