Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers 'demoicracy' as the cure.

Introduction: democratic legitimacy and international institutions ¿ republican intergovernmentalism, cosmopolitan statism, and the demoicratic reconnection of the EU; Part I. Cosmopolitanism, Statism and Republicanism: Democracy, Legitimacy and Sovereignty: 1. Cosmopolitism and statism: global interdependence and national self-determination; 2. Justice, legitimacy and republicanism: non-domination and the global circumstances of legitimate politics; 3. Sovereignty, republicanism and the democratic legitimacy of the EU; Part II. A Republican EU of Sovereign States: Republican Intergovernmentalism, Demoicracy and Non-Domination: 4. Representing the people's of Europe: addressing the demoicratic disconnect; 5. Union citizenship ¿ supra- and post-national, trans-national or inter-national?; 6 Differentiated integration and the demoicratic constitution of the EU; Conclusion: the global trilemma, the future of the EU and Brexit.

Richard Bellamy is Director of the Max Weber Programme at the EUI and Professor of Political Science, University College London (UCL), University of London. Recent publications include Liberalism and Pluralism: Towards a Politics of Compromise (Routledge, 1999), Rethinking Liberalism (Continuum, 2000, 2005), Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Citizenship: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2008), Croce, Gramsci, Bobbio and the Italian Political Tradition (ECPR Press, 2014) and (as co-editor) The Cambridge History of Twentieth Century Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Lineages of European Citizenship (Palgrave, 2004) and Making European Citizens (Palgrave, 2006). His A European Republic of Sovereign States is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.