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1. State Territoriality and European Integration

   Edited by Michael Burgess, Hans Vollaard

   Series: Europe and the Nation State

   The European nation state is now placed between the interconnected processes of globalization and European integration. This new book examines these evolving relationships, showing how the conventional territorial basis of the state is being reappraised. Bringing together leading thinkers on the...

   Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
2. Multinational Federations

   Edited by Michael Burgess, John Pinder

   Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

   This is the first comparative volume available on multinational federations, bringing together an international range of experts on federalism. Multinational federations are federal states intended to provide a framework that can accommodate, manage and resolve some of the most intractable...

   Published February 1st 2011 by Routledge
3. Federal Democracies

   Edited by Michael Burgess, Alain-G. Gagnon

   Series: Routledge Series in Federal Studies

   Federal Democracies examines the evolution of the relationship between federalism and democracy. Taking the late 18th century US Federal Experience as its starting-point, the book uses the contributions of Calhoun, Bryce and Proudhon as 19th century conceptual prisms through which we can witness...

   Published February 17th 2010 by Routledge
4. Comparative Federalism

   Theory and Practice

   By Michael Burgess

   A new examination of contemporary federalism and federation, which delivers a detailed theoretical study underpinned by fresh case studies. It is grounded in a clear distinction between 'federations', particular kinds of states, and 'federalism', the thinking that drives and promotes them. It also...

   Published January 11th 2006 by Routledge
5. Federalism and the European Union

   The Building of Europe, 1950-2000

   By Michael Burgess

   A revisionist interpretation of the post-war evolution of European integration and the European Union (EU), this book reappraises and reassesses conventional explanations of European integration. It adopts a federalist approach which supplements state-based arguments with federal political ideas,...

   Published January 19th 2000 by Routledge
6. Federalism and European Union

   Political Ideas, Influences, and Strategies in the European Community 1972-1986

   By Michael Burgess

   One of the most frequent criticisms levelled at the European Community is the discrepancy between federalist rhetoric and the intergovernmental response: between its ideological aspirations and contemporary political reality. The federalist heritage of the European Community has become discredited...

   Published July 5th 1989 by Routledge