Gerard Delanty is Professor of Sociology and Social & Political Thought, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. His books include The Cosmopolitan Imagination (Cambridge University Press 2009), Formations of European Modernity: A Historical and Political Sociology of Europe, 2nd edition (Palgrave 2018), The European Heritage: A Critical Re-interpretation (Routledge 2018) and Community, 3rd edition (Routledge 2018).