Joseph DREW: Introduction: Redefining Europe Maiken UMBACH: Federalism in Europe: History and Future Options Isabel DAVID: From Dialectics to Political Theology: Rethinking Complexity in Federalism Xenophon CONTIADES: The Democratic Principle as an Organisational Basis of the European Union Fausto CAPELLI: The European Union’s Institutional System as the Basis of a New form of Democracy Mark GYANDOH: Incorporating the Principle of Co-Equal Branches into the European Constitution: Lessons to be Learned from the United States Joelle Anne SCHMITZ: Institutional Redress of the Democratic Deficit: Federalism within the Democracy-efficiency Continuum Zoran OKLOPČIĆ: Constituent Power and Polity Legitimacy in the European Context: A Theoretical Sketch David Adam LANDAU and Lisa VANHALA: Circumventing the State? The Demands of Stateless Nations, National Minorities, and the European Constitution Mirella EBERTS: The Catholic Church and Poland’s Accession to the European Union Julia M. WHITE: Inclusive Education as a Human Right and the Slovakia’s Accession to the European Union Tom HUDGENS: The US Must Merge with the EU Joseph DREW: Conclusion Contributors