The Crisis Of The European Union: Challenges, Analyses, Solutions

Cover......Page 1
Half Title......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
List of figures......Page 9
List of tables......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Introduction: the many challenges of the European Union......Page 14
Part I Perspectives on a troubled project......Page 24
1 Understanding European Union governance: political challenges of the integration project......Page 26
2 Europe’s unfinished community of law: legal challenges of the integration project......Page 39
3 The design of the EMU at the heart of the EU’s crisis? Economic challenges of the integration project......Page 54
4 Uneven development, partial Europeanization and nationalist retreat: societal challenges of the integration project......Page 68
Part II The many faces of the European Crisis......Page 82
5 The hegemony of disorder: the persistence of financial turmoil in the EU......Page 84
6 Nationalism, populism and the rebirth of statehood in Europe......Page 104
7 Independence and separatist movements: Europe between integration and disintegration......Page 117
8 Is the migration crisis a solidarity crisis?......Page 129
9 A Europe of dropouts? Brexit and the question of European solidarity......Page 142
10 Social Europe still missing? Flaws of the spill-over process as the motor of integration......Page 154
Part III How to improve the EU’s problem-solving capacities......Page 170
11 When there are no winners, only losers: the European crisis and the interest paradigm......Page 172
12 Intergovernmental method, community method and open method of coordination: the resilience, efficiency and legitimacy of the EU’s modes of governance......Page 186
13 Segmentation, differentiation and the aims of European integration......Page 198
14 Democratic innovations beyond the state......Page 212
15 The EU’s model of regional integration in a functionally differentiated world society......Page 228
Epilogue: there’s life in the old dog yet! Challenges as catalyst for European integration......Page 239
Bibliography......Page 249
Index......Page 282