Sovereignty in Conflict - Political, Constitutional and Economic Dilemmas in the EU

This edited volume brings together leading international researchers in an attempt to disentangle and understand the multiple conflicts of sovereignty within the European polity in the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis. While most research on sovereignty focuses on its international dimensions, what makes this volume distinctive is the focus on the mobilization of sovereignty discourses in national politics. Contrary to tired paradigms studying clashes between national and supranational sovereignty, the various chapters of the volume offer a provocation for the readers - what if these old vertical conflicts of sovereignty are increasingly complemented by horizontal conflicts between executives and parliaments at both the national and international level?


Julia Rone is a postdoctoral researcher at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at CRASSH, University of Cambridge, UK. Her research focuses on the dilemmas of digital sovereignty and the democratization of trade and tech governance. She is the author of Contesting Free Trade and Austerity in the EU: Protest Diffusion in Complex Media and Political Arenas (2021).
Nathalie Brack is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium She recently authored Opposing Europe in the European Parliament. Rebels and Radicals in the Chamber (2018) and co-edits Theorising the Crises of the European Union (2020).

Ramona Coman is Professor in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles and President of the Institute for European Studies, Belgium. She is the author of The Politics of the Rule of Law in the EU Polity: Actors, Tools and Challenges (2022) and the co-editor of Politics and Governance in the Post-Crisis European Union (2020).

Amandine Crespy is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Belgium. She recently authored The European Social Question. Tackling Key Controversies (2022) and co-edited Understanding Conflicts of Sovereignty in the EU (together with N. Brack and R. Coman, 2021).