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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2026

Edited by
Jan Komárek ,
Birgit Aasa ,
Marina Bán  and
Michał Krajewski
Jan Komárek
Affiliation:
University of Copenhagen/Charles University in Prague
Birgit Aasa
Affiliation:
European Parliament
Michał Krajewski
Affiliation:
European Ombudsman

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European Constitutionalism the Other Way Round
From the Periphery to the Centre
 , pp. v - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2026
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Contents

  1. List of Contributors

  2. Acknowledgements

  3. 1Imagining Statehood and Constitutionalism in Europe: Introduction

    Jan Komárek, Birgit Aasa, Marina Bán and Michał Krajewski

  4. Part INation States, Member States and Their Others

    1. 2Vicarious Sovereignty: Becoming European the Estonian Way

      Maria Mälksoo

    2. 3From Federation to External Constraint: Europe in the Italian Constitutional Imagination

      Marco Goldoni

    3. 4Sovereignty and the Misery of Small Eastern European Nations

      Hent Kalmo

    4. 5Ruling Britannia

      Martin Loughlin

    5. 6The Power of Concepts: From ‘Self-Management’ to ‘Sovereignty’ in Soviet Estonia (1987–1988)

      Juhan Saharov

    6. 7European Integration: Ineffable Aspiration or the Object of Concern? About the Ambiguity of Europe in the Polish Constitutional Imaginary

      Aleksandra Kustra-Rogatka

    7. 8The Constitutionalised Image of Enemy in the Hungarian Fundamental Law

      Attila Antal

  5. Part IIBringing Back the Past (to Serve or Understand the Present?)

    1. 9Political Integration through Constitutional Memory? Historical Constitution and Community Building in Hungary

      Kálmán Pócza

    2. 10The Constitutional Concept of the Historical Constitution and Illiberalism: The Case of Hungary

      Tímea Drinóczi

    3. 11Estonians’ European Imaginaries: The Soviet and Pre-Soviet Legacy

      Epp Annus

    4. 12Czechoslovakia: Remembering and Forgetting the Failures of a State

      Mary Heimann

    5. 13A Constitution without Qualities? Three Narratives about Austrian Constitutional Law

      Ulrich Wagrandl

  6. Part IIIThe Varieties of Liberalism in Europe

    1. 14Rule of What Law? Authoritarian Pasts, Liberal Politics and Constitutional Imagination in Early Post-Communist East Central Europe

      Michal Kopeček

    2. 15From the Façade to Solid Foundation? The Evolution of the Polish Constitutional Law Discourse in 1944–1989

      Wojciech Zomerski

    3. 16Nordic Democratic Exceptionality after the End of History: A Neoliberalized Constitutional Imaginary?

      Johan Strang

    4. 17Fifty Years of Democratic Constitutionalism in Portugal: Between Constitutional Aspirations and the European Path

      Mariana Canotilho

    5. 18Constitutional Drift: Exploring the Deeper Roots of Polish Constitutional Crisis

      Karol Muszyński and Paweł Skuczyński

    6. 19On the French Constitutional Imaginary: The Erosion of the Long-standing Republican Tradition

      François-Xavier Millet

    7. 20From Legal Impossibilism to the Rule of Law Crisis: Transitional Justice and Polish Counter-Constitutionalism

      Michał Krotoszyński

  7. Index

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