Prologue Chapter 1. Introduction, Chapter 2. Why Europe Needs a Constitution, Chapter 3. On the Right to Self-Government, Chapter 4. Human Rights, Constitutionalism and Integration: Iconography and Fetishism, Chapter 5. Treaty or Constitution? The legal basis of the European Union after Maastricht Chapter 6. A Policy without a State? European Constitutionalism between Evolution and Revolution, Chapter 7. Three Conceptions of the European Constitution Chapter 8. The Politics of Law and the Law of Politics: Two Constitutional Traditions in Europe Chapter or the Constitutional State in Europe Chapter 10. Law, Economics and Politics in the Constitutionalisation of Europe Chapter 11. The Convention Method and the Transformation of EU Constitutional Politics Chapter 12. Deliberation or Bargaining? Coping with Consititional Conflicts in the Convention on the Future of Europe Chapter 13. Still a Union of Deep Diversity? The Convention and the Constitution for Europe.

Erik O. Eriksen is Professor of Political Science at University of Oslo and Professor II at The University College of Oslo. John Erik Fossum is Senior Researcher at ARENA, University of Oslo, and Associate Professor at the University of Bergen. Agustín José Menéndez is Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Universidad de León, Professor at the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset and CIDEL fellow at ARENA, University of Oslo.

The European Union is currently in the midst of a comprehensive process of reform and the aim of this book is to address the challenge of forging a legitimate Constitution for the EU. These authors clarify the constitutional status of the EU, to take stock of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights and Convention of the Future of Europe as vehicles to foster and create a European constitution.