Europes Union in Crisis
The European Union faces a set of inter-related crises that it struggles to contain and address. By exploring how the EU responds to crises and conflict, this volume addresses both its resilience and vulnerability. The EU faces significant challenges: European integration is increasingly politicised; democratic politics within member states are increasingly volatile; challenger parties threaten the status quo; and party systems are shifting throughout Europe. These crises test both the EU and individual states, especially those that had to exchange interdependence in the Union for dependence on the Troika. Despite the tension of hard times, this volume points to patterns of continuity and change as the single market, somewhat side-lined and forgotten in the heat of crises, retains its role as the hard core of the Union and the EUs most significant achievement.
This book was originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.
Brigid Laffan is Director and Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI), Florence. She has published widely on European Integration including Core-periphery Relations in the European Union (London: Routledge, 2016), Ireland and the European Union (2008), Renovation or Revolution: new territorial politics in Ireland and the United Kingdom, (2005), Europes Experimental Union. Re thinking Integration (1999) and The Finances of the Union (1997).
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Europes Union in Crisis
Tested and Contested
Edited by Brigid Laffan
Europes Union in Crisis
Tested and contested
Edited by
Brigid Laffan
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in West European Politics, volume 39, issue 5 (September 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Europes union in crisis: tested and contested
Brigid Laffan
West European Politics, volume 39, issue 5 (September 2016) pp. 915932
Chapter 2
Politicisation and integration through law: whither integration theory?
Sabine Saurugger
West European Politics, volume 39, issue 5 (September 2016) pp. 933952
Chapter 3
The EUs problem-solving capacity and legitimacy in a crisis context: a virtuous or vicious circle?
Gerda Falkner
West European Politics, volume 39, issue 5 (September 2016) pp. 953970
Chapter 4
Fleeing the centre: the rise of challenger parties in the aftermath of the euro crisis
Sara B. Hobolt and James Tilley
West European Politics, volume 39, issue 5 (September 2016) pp. 971991
Chapter 5
After the Spitzenkandidaten: fundamental change in the EUs political system?
Thomas Christiansen
West European Politics, volume 39, issue 5 (September 2016) pp. 9921010
Chapter 6
The Commission: boxed in and constrained, but still an engine of integration
Stefan Becker, Michael W. Bauer, Sara Connolly and Hussein Kassim
West European Politics, volume 39, issue 5 (September 2016) pp. 10111031
Chapter 7
Reinterpreting the rules by stealth in times of crisis: a discursive institutionalist analysis of the European Central Bank and the European Commission
Vivien A. Schmidt
West European Politics, volume 39, issue 5 (September 2016) pp. 10321052
Chapter 8
Europes crises and the EUs big three
Ulrich Krotz and Richard Maher
West European Politics, volume 39, issue 5 (September 2016) pp. 10531072
Chapter 9
EU experimentalist governance in times of crisis
