A book about the nature and purpose of the EU in times of crisis.

What is it about?

In this insightful book, Massimo Fichera provides an original account of European integration as a process. He argues that European constitutionalism has been informed from its earliest stages by the meta-constitutional rationale of security, which has existential features and is expressed by security and fundamental rights as discourses of power. Security is viewed as a form of political morality underpinning the EU. Employing this descriptive and normative conceptual framework to analyse the development of the EU as a polity, chapters cover significant recent events such as the Eurozone crisis, the refugee crisis, the rule of law crisis, Brexit and the constitutional identity crisis.

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Why is it important?

This book provides an account of the development of the EU through an original concept (i.e. security as a form of political morality that lies in the background of EU integration). It offers therefore a unique theoretical analysis of the multiple crises of the EU in the last decade.