Crisis and Politicisation
This book explores the links between the politics of a now seemingly permanent crisis in Europe and the politicisation of the process of European integration. Looking at the epistemic dimension of crisis, it suggests that the way in which a crisis is framed and contested determines its potential impact on the level of politicisation of processes such as European integration.
Europe is more challenged and contested today than it has even been, facing crises of an almost existential kind. Yet, political crises are manufactured and narrated, so Europe has the possibility to intervene to bring about her recovery, instead of letting these crises prove terminal. This book explores the political process in and through which certain events come to be framed as constitutive of a moment that requires a decisive intervention. It shows that crises require a double framing: a situation needs to be identified as one of crises in the first place and, subsequently, the nature and character of the crisis need to be specified. By examining a wide range of policy areas, the book demonstrates that the framing of crises, i.e., the identification of a situation as both a crisis and a crisis of a particular kind, contributes to the politicisation (or depoliticisation) of the process of European integration.
The chapters in this book were originally published as special issue of Journal of European Integration.
Benedetta Voltolini is Lecturer in European Foreign Policy in the Department of European and International Studies at Kings College London, UK. Her research focuses on the foreign policy of the EU and its member states towards the Middle East and North Africa, on lobbying and framing in European external relations.
Michal Natorski is Assistant Professor in Public Policy Analysis and Governance at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance/United Nations University-MERIT at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. His research interests include the diffusion of public policies, international practices, the governance of disruptive phenomena and EU foreign policy.
Colin Hay is Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies in Political Science at Sciences Po, Paris, France, and Founding Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is lead editor of New Political Economy and founding co-editor of Comparative European Politics and British Politics. He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Science and, until recently, President of the European University Institutes Research Council.
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Benedetta Voltolini
, Michal Natorski
and Colin Hay
ABSTRACT
Taking stock of the numerous crises that have confronted Europe in the last decade, this special issue investigates the relationship between crisis and the politicisation of the process of European integration. It draws attention in so doing to the epistemic construction of crises. In this conceptual overview, we discuss first, how crises are framed and reframed in relation to the constitutive elements of a political community. Second, we explore the extent to which, and how, the emergence of different understandings of crisis and the ensuing frame competition between them contribute to such politicisation. By elucidating the link between the politics of a now seemingly permanent crisis in Europe and the politicisation of European integration, this introduction sets the framework informing all of the articles in this special issue.
