Part 1: Squaring the circle on rationality and acceptability 1. Introduction: The rationality/acceptability gap
2. The right-making force of public reason
3. Rational irrationality: On bargaining and arguing
4. Deliberative inquiry: Probing the conditions for legitimate solutions
5. Rational acceptability and its limitations
6. Deliberative decision-making
7. Claims-making, justification, and learning Part 2: European integration: Autonomy and heteronomy 8. European integration: the force of democracy
9. The European parliament puzzle: from disagreement to agreement
10. Differentiation, segmentation, and the spectre of dominance
11. Habermas versus Habermas on European democracy
12. Regional cosmopolitanism and hierarchical self-intervention. Postscript