Examines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and

Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.

Compiled by a group of distinguished international scholars including John Pocock, Diana Pinto, Thomas Maissen, and Fania Oz-Salzberger, this volume conjoins Is

Republican legal theory developed out of the jurisprudential and constitutional legacy of the Roman res publica as interpreted over two millennia in Europe and