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Improvising, Acting and Taking Back Control: Towards a Political Europe? - Luuk Van Middelaar, De Nieuwe politiek van Europa (Historische Uitgeverij2017) 371 pp. French: Quand l’Europe improvise: dix ans de changements politiques (Gallimard 2018). To appear in English in 2019 (Agenda Publishing).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2018

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PhD researcher at the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance (ACELG), University of Amsterdam.

References

1 Van Middelaar, L., De Nieuwe Politiek van Europa (Historische Uitgeverij 2017) p. 343Google Scholar.

2 Van Middelaar, supra n. 1, p. 17-18.

3 Van Midelaar, supra n. 1, p. 6.

4 Van Middelaar, L., Politicide: De Moord op de politiek in de Franse filosofie (Historische Uitgeverij 2011)Google Scholar, originally published by Van Gennep in 1999.

5 Van Middelaar, L., The Passage to Europe: How a Continent Became a Union (Yale University Press 2013)Google Scholar.

6 Van Middelaar, supra n. 5, p. 11-25.

7 Van Middelaar, L. and van Parijs, P. (eds.), After the Storm: How to Save Democracy in Europe (Lannoo 2015)Google Scholar.

8 L. Van Middelaar, ‘Europe and the Return of Politics’, in Van Middelaar and Van Parijs, supra n. 7, p. 229 at p. 242.

9 Van Middelaar, supra n. 1, p. 156-158.

10 Pocock, J.G.A., The Machiavellian Moment. Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Tradition (Princeton 1975)Google Scholar.

11 Quoted in Skinner, Q., Machiavelli: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2000) p. 31Google Scholar.

12 Van Middelaar, supra n. 1, p. 98.

13 Van Middelaar, supra n. 1, p. 15-16.

14 Van Middelaar, supra n. 1, p. 42.

15 Van Middelaar, supra n. 1, p. 247.

16 Van Middelaar, supra n. 1, p. 232.

17 Van Middelaar, supra n. 1, p. 233.

18 European Commission, Proposal for a regulation COM(2018)324.

19 See for example Vauchez, A., Democratiser l’Europe (Seuil 2014)Google Scholar or even Habermas, J., Zur Verfassung Europas. Ein Essay (Suhrkamp 2011)Google Scholar.

20 And has even defended this situation as beneficial: Van Middelaar, supra n. 5, p. 41.

21 Van Middelaar, supra n. 1, p. 315-343.