Revolutionary Constitutions Symposium, Afterword: Multiple Identities

Abstract

In writing Revolutionary Constitutions, I wasn't aiming to provide innovative "solutions" to the EU's current crisis. I was trying to ask new questions - questions that could provoke a conversation permitting constitutionalists to frame more constructive proposals for reform over the coming decades. I hope that the dynamic conversation begun in this Symposium is a harbinger of further engagement with the issues raised by my "three pathways" approach.

To further encourage debate, these closing remarks invite my readers to reflect on a fundamental limitation of the "three pathways" framework. In response to this limitation, I will introduce a second perspective that can help compensate for that deficiency.

I will call it "multiple identities" analysis. I suggest that, in future work, it should complement the "three pathways" approach that served as the basis for this Symposium.