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Hello, my name is Oliver Garner. I'm the editor of the Rule of Law section of the C EU Democracy Institute's Live Platform, The Review of Democracy. These are my top five Rule of Law books of 2023. My first choice is the abuse of constitutional identity in the European Union by Julian Scholtes, published by Oxford University Press. This year, I had the pleasure of interviewing Julian about his work in autumn for RevDem. His book impressively categorizes the manners in which constitutional identity may be abused by a liberal actor into generative substantive and relational aspects. This work can provide a rejoinder to claims that constitutional identity is an unmitigated danger to liberal democracy. And instead, it may help us to preserve a concept that can usefully delimit the spheres of sovereign autonomy within our globalized world. My second choice is the book Against Constitutionalism by Martin Loughlin, published by Harvard University Press in 2022. The polemic title sets out the author's stall as an academic who is always willing to challenge the prevailing consensus within a field. Our fellow RevDem editor Kasia Krzyzanowska' interview with Professor Loughlin this year teased out the heart of his argument as one that seeks to privilege the power of politics to change society over what he perceives to be the ideology of constitutionalism that may ossify progress through rarely legality. My third choice is the book European Disunion, Democracy, Sovereignty, and The Politics of Emergency by Stefan Auer, published by Hurst in 2022. This monograph provides another challenge to one of the prevailing notions in liberal Western academia that the empty seat of power in supranational integration within Europe is a desirable feature of modernity. Instead, such over bureaucratization may be a causative factor in the democratic irritations of populism and the liberalism. As Auer argues in this book, a full symposium on the monograph with contributions from Peter J. Verovšek, Gábor Halmai, and Petr Agha is available on RevDem. My fourth choice is the book, The Jurisprudence of Constitutional Conflict in the European Union by Anna Bobek, published by Oxford University Press in 2022. The legal face of the liberal challenge to supranational integration may be regarded as the constitutional conflicts between national apex courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union. Anna Bobek's book provides a rigorous academic treatise on these phenomena from the perspective of an insider within the court of justice. Her development of categories of constructive and destructive constitutional conflict in the European Union may marry well with Scholtz's notions of abusive and genuine constitutional identity claims and both can be very useful tools in the future for such conflicts. My final choice is the research handbook on the politics of constitutional law, edited by Mark Tushnet and the Lead researcher for the rule of law workgroup, Dmitry Kochenov. And this book was published by Edward Elgar in 2023. This, will I believe be an authoritative tone on the interaction between core concepts such as democracy and the rule of law within constitutional systems. The handbook is divided into contributions on foundations, structure rights and futures, which allows both a systematic look into the origins of constitutional politics and valuable reflections upon its development by a wide array of greatvoices within the field. I hope that you have also enjoyed these books if you've also managed to read them this year and I hope you've also enjoyed the content we've put out on RevDem on the rule of law section and our book review section on themes covered in these works and similar. I hope that you will join us again in 2024 when we continue to deliver podcasts and op-eds considering these arguments that are relevant for democracy in Europe.

Here is a double paradox: The European Union's (EU) set of founding principles—its telos, so to speak—are undergoing a two-track inversion. The block was initially designed to slide gently towards federalization whilst remaining a largely toothless actor on the world stage. And yet the opposite has happened: the EU has since grown into a powerful geopolitical player of its own that is internally at peace with the present deadlock of integration. Sometime between the eurozone crisis of the early 2010s and Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, the EU's entire architecture has been turned inside out. Scholars, journalists and analysts in Brussels and European capitals are still at pains to gauge the depth of this compete revolution. Stefan Auer of Hong Kong University may have lost some sleep over it. A former—and likely future—recipient of the prestigious Jean Monnet Chair for EU studies, he's as astute an observer as any of the block's institutional dynamics. He argues in his most recent book that, instead of seeking to transcend the laws of politics, the EU would be well advised to heed them. In this episode he sits down with us and Glyn Morgan, associate professor at Syracuse University's politics department. As always, please rate and review Uncommon Decency on Apple Podcasts, and send us your comments or questions either on Twitter at @UnDecencyPod or by e-mail at undecencypod@gmail.com. And please consider supporting the show through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/undecencypod.

"With the eurozone crisis going back to 2010, the refugee crisis that culminated in 2015, the crisis of the EU-Russia relationship going back to the Ukrainian Maidan revolution of 2013-14, to the Covid-19 crisis in 2020, the EU has struggled to live up to the expectations it raised both in relation to its own people and neighbouring countries. This is not an accident". Could this really be by design? In European Disunion: Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency (Hurst in the UK, OUP in the US, 2022), Stefan Auer argues that the EU's hybrid form – falling somewhere between a multinational state and a multilateral organisation – comes closest to the ideals of Germany, its most powerful member. This attempt to bypass politics has weakened the EU in the many emergencies it has faced over the last 15 years. Today, he says, "Europeans do not have the luxury of living in a politics-less world". Stefan Auer is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, having previously taught in Melbourne and Dublin and twice held Jean Monnet chairs. A prolific contributor to political science journals, he won the 2005 UACES Best Book in European Studies prize for his Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004). *The authors' own book recommendations are: After Europe by Ivan Krastev (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) and Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger (2022). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors (a division of Energy Aspects). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

"With the eurozone crisis going back to 2010, the refugee crisis that culminated in 2015, the crisis of the EU-Russia relationship going back to the Ukrainian Maidan revolution of 2013-14, to the Covid-19 crisis in 2020, the EU has struggled to live up to the expectations it raised both in relation to its own people and neighbouring countries. This is not an accident". Could this really be by design? In European Disunion: Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency (Hurst in the UK, OUP in the US, 2022), Stefan Auer argues that the EU's hybrid form – falling somewhere between a multinational state and a multilateral organisation – comes closest to the ideals of Germany, its most powerful member. This attempt to bypass politics has weakened the EU in the many emergencies it has faced over the last 15 years. Today, he says, "Europeans do not have the luxury of living in a politics-less world". Stefan Auer is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, having previously taught in Melbourne and Dublin and twice held Jean Monnet chairs. A prolific contributor to political science journals, he won the 2005 UACES Best Book in European Studies prize for his Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004). *The authors' own book recommendations are: After Europe by Ivan Krastev (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) and Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger (2022). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors (a division of Energy Aspects). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs

"With the eurozone crisis going back to 2010, the refugee crisis that culminated in 2015, the crisis of the EU-Russia relationship going back to the Ukrainian Maidan revolution of 2013-14, to the Covid-19 crisis in 2020, the EU has struggled to live up to the expectations it raised both in relation to its own people and neighbouring countries. This is not an accident". Could this really be by design? In European Disunion: Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency (Hurst in the UK, OUP in the US, 2022), Stefan Auer argues that the EU's hybrid form – falling somewhere between a multinational state and a multilateral organisation – comes closest to the ideals of Germany, its most powerful member. This attempt to bypass politics has weakened the EU in the many emergencies it has faced over the last 15 years. Today, he says, "Europeans do not have the luxury of living in a politics-less world". Stefan Auer is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, having previously taught in Melbourne and Dublin and twice held Jean Monnet chairs. A prolific contributor to political science journals, he won the 2005 UACES Best Book in European Studies prize for his Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004). *The authors' own book recommendations are: After Europe by Ivan Krastev (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) and Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger (2022). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors (a division of Energy Aspects). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

"With the eurozone crisis going back to 2010, the refugee crisis that culminated in 2015, the crisis of the EU-Russia relationship going back to the Ukrainian Maidan revolution of 2013-14, to the Covid-19 crisis in 2020, the EU has struggled to live up to the expectations it raised both in relation to its own people and neighbouring countries. This is not an accident". Could this really be by design? In European Disunion: Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency (Hurst in the UK, OUP in the US, 2022), Stefan Auer argues that the EU's hybrid form – falling somewhere between a multinational state and a multilateral organisation – comes closest to the ideals of Germany, its most powerful member. This attempt to bypass politics has weakened the EU in the many emergencies it has faced over the last 15 years. Today, he says, "Europeans do not have the luxury of living in a politics-less world". Stefan Auer is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, having previously taught in Melbourne and Dublin and twice held Jean Monnet chairs. A prolific contributor to political science journals, he won the 2005 UACES Best Book in European Studies prize for his Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004). *The authors' own book recommendations are: After Europe by Ivan Krastev (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) and Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger (2022). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors (a division of Energy Aspects). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"With the eurozone crisis going back to 2010, the refugee crisis that culminated in 2015, the crisis of the EU-Russia relationship going back to the Ukrainian Maidan revolution of 2013-14, to the Covid-19 crisis in 2020, the EU has struggled to live up to the expectations it raised both in relation to its own people and neighbouring countries. This is not an accident". Could this really be by design? In European Disunion: Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency (Hurst in the UK, OUP in the US, 2022), Stefan Auer argues that the EU's hybrid form – falling somewhere between a multinational state and a multilateral organisation – comes closest to the ideals of Germany, its most powerful member. This attempt to bypass politics has weakened the EU in the many emergencies it has faced over the last 15 years. Today, he says, "Europeans do not have the luxury of living in a politics-less world". Stefan Auer is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, having previously taught in Melbourne and Dublin and twice held Jean Monnet chairs. A prolific contributor to political science journals, he won the 2005 UACES Best Book in European Studies prize for his Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004). *The authors' own book recommendations are: After Europe by Ivan Krastev (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) and Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger (2022). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors (a division of Energy Aspects). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

"With the eurozone crisis going back to 2010, the refugee crisis that culminated in 2015, the crisis of the EU-Russia relationship going back to the Ukrainian Maidan revolution of 2013-14, to the Covid-19 crisis in 2020, the EU has struggled to live up to the expectations it raised both in relation to its own people and neighbouring countries. This is not an accident". Could this really be by design? In European Disunion: Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency (Hurst in the UK, OUP in the US, 2022), Stefan Auer argues that the EU's hybrid form – falling somewhere between a multinational state and a multilateral organisation – comes closest to the ideals of Germany, its most powerful member. This attempt to bypass politics has weakened the EU in the many emergencies it has faced over the last 15 years. Today, he says, "Europeans do not have the luxury of living in a politics-less world". Stefan Auer is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, having previously taught in Melbourne and Dublin and twice held Jean Monnet chairs. A prolific contributor to political science journals, he won the 2005 UACES Best Book in European Studies prize for his Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004). *The authors' own book recommendations are: After Europe by Ivan Krastev (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) and Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger (2022). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors (a division of Energy Aspects). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

"With the eurozone crisis going back to 2010, the refugee crisis that culminated in 2015, the crisis of the EU-Russia relationship going back to the Ukrainian Maidan revolution of 2013-14, to the Covid-19 crisis in 2020, the EU has struggled to live up to the expectations it raised both in relation to its own people and neighbouring countries. This is not an accident". Could this really be by design? In European Disunion: Democracy, Sovereignty and the Politics of Emergency (Hurst in the UK, OUP in the US, 2022), Stefan Auer argues that the EU's hybrid form – falling somewhere between a multinational state and a multilateral organisation – comes closest to the ideals of Germany, its most powerful member. This attempt to bypass politics has weakened the EU in the many emergencies it has faced over the last 15 years. Today, he says, "Europeans do not have the luxury of living in a politics-less world". Stefan Auer is an Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, having previously taught in Melbourne and Dublin and twice held Jean Monnet chairs. A prolific contributor to political science journals, he won the 2005 UACES Best Book in European Studies prize for his Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe (Routledge, 2004). *The authors' own book recommendations are: After Europe by Ivan Krastev (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017) and Time of the Magicians: The Great Decade of Philosophy, 1919-1929 by Wolfram Eilenberger (2022). Tim Gwynn Jones is an economic and political-risk analyst at Medley Advisors (a division of Energy Aspects). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In conversation with RevDem editor Kasia Krzyżanowska, Stefan Auer discusses his new book European Disunion. Democracy, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Emergency (Hurst&Company 2022). In a conversation, he points out to the EU hubris, discusses crises that hit the EU recently, puts into a broader context Russian invasion of Ukraine, and shares his scepticism on the future of Europe.

Brussels-based reporter Finbarr Bermingham and the Post’s Mai Jun from Beijing detail the diplomatic tensions between the EU and Beijing. Sino-Russian affairs expert Dr Stefan Auer analyses the end of “soft power” in Europe and how 50 years after Nixon played the “China card” against the USSR, Putin has done the same against the US. Taiwan-based academic Weng-Ti Sung analyses Russia’s actions and the response on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. Get our podcast newsletter: sc.mp/c56a65

Dr. Stefan Auer joined us to discuss how the rule of law debate between Poland and the European Court of Justice has reopened old questions about legal supremacy. The Europe Desk is a podcast from the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. It brings together leading experts working on the most pertinent issues facing Europe and transatlantic relations today. Music by Sam Kyzivat and Breakmaster Cylinder Production by Mason Kane and Jonathan Meilaender Communications by Iris Thatcher, Shelby Emami, Mason Kane, Colleen Dougherty, and Flora Adamian Design by Sarah Diebboll https://cges.georgetown.edu/podcast Twitter and Instagram: @theeuropedesk If you would like a transcript of this episode, more information about the Center's events, or have any feedback, please email: theeuropedesk@georgetown.edu.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) and Nicole Scicluna (European Studies, La Trobe University) debate what is to come for the European Union. Chaired by John Hirst. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Quiz 5, covering week 11 to 13. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on the EU as a global player in the 21st Century. Copyright 2012 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) talks to Professor Dieter Grimm (former German Constitutional Court Judge) about the legal and political nature of sovereignty within the European Union. The discussion explores the tensions between EU treaties and current EU actions taken to address the economic and financial crisis of the Eurozone. The conversation also deals with the future of the European Union, the idea of a European federation and whether it is possible and desirable to create a European demos. Recorded at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin. Copyright 2011 La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Nicole Scicluna (European Studies, La Trobe University) on legal dimensions in the EU, specifically constitution and democracy. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) talks to H.E. Hynek Kmonicek (Czech ambassador to Australia) about the Czech Republic and the EU, the post-communist transformation of Central Europe and ‘return' to Europe, and Central Europe and the Eurozone crisis. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Quiz 4, covering week 8 to 10. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on issues of citizenship, diversity and migration in the European Union. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University)interviews H.E. Stephane Romatet (French ambassador to Australia) about the French presidential elections, and the French position on the Eurozone crisis. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) talks to Professor Norman Davies (University of Oxford) about Poland, Central Europe, but also the Eurozone crisis and the possibility of the EU becoming the next 'Vanished Kingdom'. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on Europe after the Cold War: The end of central Europe's tragedy. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on the desired and realistic effect of the Eurozone. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Quiz 3, covering weeks 6 and 7. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Ben Wellings (Convenor of European Studies at the ANU) talks to Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on Britain and the EU; English nationalism and Euroscepticism; and the Cameron government's EU policies. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on the issues that the UK has had with Europe, and how they've varied over time. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Sven Olof-Petersson (Swedish Ambassador to Australia) talks to Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on Sweden and the EU, the Swedish position on the Euro, and the current crisis (as a country outside the Eurozone). Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on the role of Germany and France in European integration. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Quiz 2, covering weeks 3 - 5. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr. Daniel Naurin (Director, Centre for European Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) talks to Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) about European Union governance and democracy. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on the the unification and growth of the European Union. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Oliver Hartwich (Centre for Independent Studies, Sydney) talks to Dr Stefan Auer (La Trobe University) about about Germany's role in the European Union, the Eurozone, and the financial crisis. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on the origins of the European Union. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on building towards European unity. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on building towards European unity. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Quiz 1, covering weeks 1 - 2. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Nicole Scicluna (European Studies, La Trobe University) on how the European Union works. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Nicole Scicluna (European Studies, La Trobe University) on how the European Union works. Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on what is Europe? Can Europe be equated with the European Union? Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.

Dr Stefan Auer (European Studies, La Trobe University) on what is Europe? Can Europe be equated with the European Union? Copyright 2012 Stefan Auer / La Trobe University, all rights reserved. Contact for permissions.