Cambridge University Press will publish our book European Constitutionalism the Other Way Round: From the Periphery to the Centre in October 2025. It will be available open access.

All its chapters were published as working papers. To make the content of the book available, we have provided links to all of them in the table of contents:

1. Imagining statehood and constitutionalism in Europe: introduction by Jan Komárek, Birgit Aasa, Marina Bán and Michał Krajewski – IMAGINE WP No. 45

Part I. Nation States, Member States and Their Others:
2. Vicarious sovereignty: becoming European the Estonian way by Maria Mälksoo – IMAGINE WP No. 28 
3. From federation to external constraint: Europe in the Italian constitutional imagination by Marco Goldoni – IMAGINE WP No 30
4. Sovereignty and the misery of small eastern European Nations by Hent Kalmo – IMAGINE WP No 42
5. Ruling Britannia by Martin Loughlin – IMAGINE WP No 27
6. The power of concepts: from ‘self-management’ to ‘sovereignty’ in Soviet Estonia (1987–88) Juhan Saharov  – IMAGINE WP No 35
7. European integration-ineffable aspiration or the object of concern? About the ambiguity of Europe in the Polish constitutional imaginary by Aleksandra Kustra-Rogatka – IMAGINE WP No 26
8. The constitutionalised image of enemy in the Hungarian fundamental law by Attila Antal – IMAGINE WP No 29

Part II. Bringing Back the Past (To Serve or Understand The Present?):
9. Political integration through constitutional memory? Historical constitution and community building in Hungary Kálmán Pócza – IMAGINE WP No 41
10. The constitutional concept of the historical constitution and illiberalism: the case of Hungary Tímea Drinóczi – IMAGINE WP No 32
11. Estonians’ European imaginaries: the Soviet and pre-Soviet legacy by Epp Annus – IMAGINE WP No 31
12. Czechoslovakia: Remembering and forgetting the failures of a state by Mary Heimann- IMAGINE WP No 44
13. A constitution without qualities? three narratives about Austrian constitutional law by Ulrich Wagrandl – IMAGINE WP No 37

Part III. The Varieties of Liberalism in Europe:
14. Rule of what law? Authoritarian pasts, liberal politics and constitutional imagination in early post-communist East Central Europe by Michal Kopeček – IMAGINE WP No 38
15. From the facade to solid foundation? the evolution of the polish constitutional law discourse in years 1944–1989 Wojciech Zomerski – IMAGINE WP No 24
16. Nordic democratic exceptionality after the end of history: a neoliberalized constitutional imaginary? by Johan Strang – IMAGINE WP No 36
17. 50 years of democratic constitutionalism in Portugal – between constitutional aspirations and the European path by Mariana Canotilho – IMAGINE WP No 43
18. Constitutional drift – exploring the deeper roots of Polish constitutional crisis by Karol Muszyński and Paweł Skuczyński – IMAGINE WP No 33
19. On the French constitutional imaginary: the erosion of the long-standing Republican tradition François-Xavier Millet – IMAGINE WP No 40
20. From legal impossibilism to the rule of law crisis: transitional justice and polish counter-constitutionalism by Michał Krotoszyński – IMAGINE WP No 25