International Legitimacy Seminar - A Republican Europe of States - Richard Bellamy

About the speaker
Richard Bellamy joined UCL in October 2005 as the first Professor of Political Science. He was founding Head of the new Department and Director of the School of Public Policy from 2005-2010 and Director of UCL’s European Institute, which he also set up, from 2010-13. Richard Bellamy took up the Directorship of the Max Weber Programme on the 1st of May 2014, on exceptional leave from his position as Professor of Political Science at University College, London (UCL) – where he will return in September 2019.
Richard’s main research interests are in the History of European Social and Political Theory post-1750 and Contemporary Analytical Legal and Political Philosophy. He has written extensively on the history of both Italian political thought and European liberalism, on Pluralism, Compromise and Public Ethics; Constitutionalism, Rights and the Rule of Law; and Citizenship, Representation and Democracy (for publications please see below).
He has recently completed a monograph exploring the democratic legitimacy of Global Governance, with particular attention to the European Union. This book is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press and entitled A European Republic of States: Cosmopolitan Statism, Republican Intergovernmentalism and the Demoicratic Legitimacy of the EU. Richard is currently engaged on a book on The Democratic Constitution for Oxford University Press and a study of Political Leadership, provisionally entitled The Democratic Prince.

More information can be found at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/political-science/people/professor-richard-bellamy

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