Contents -- Introduction. The European Union: Challenge and Opportunity -- PART I. UNITY AND DIVERSITY -- 1. The possibility of political order -- 2. The legacy: nationalization of political life -- 3. 'Europeanization': a fashionable and contested term -- 4. A prelude to an institutional account -- PART II. CITIZENS AND THEIR HELPERS -- 5. What role for Euro-citizens? -- 6. '. . . to serve the citizens of Europe' -- PART III. DEMOCRATIC DESIGN AND HISTORICAL DRIFT -- 7. Institutions of governance: can democracies choose them? -- 8. Reformers as pawns, engineers and gardeners -- 9. Coping with conflict at constitutional moments -- PART IV. NEW AND OLD POLITICAL ORDERS -- 10. The Europeanization of the territorial state? -- 11. Towards a European administrative space? -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.