The Contemporary Crisis of the European Union: Prospects for the Future

ISBN-13: 9780367667986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 170 str.

Ivan T. Berend

Opis

For the first time, after more than half a century, some countries were almost forced to step out of the Union. History’s most frightening migration crisis shocked Europe and led to the strengthening of several anti-integration parties in various countries. This pioneering book discusses the nine crisis elements that may lead to disintegration o

Recenzje

'For those interested in the EU’s present and future, this timely book explores the multitude of crises circulating from a variety of economic, political and societal forces from both internal and external directions.' — Dr Mark Baimbridge, University of Bradford

Spis treści

Introduction

PART I

Inside economic and political factors of the crisis

1 Britain: from outsider to inside-outsider and outsider again. Joining late, stepping out early

2 The crisis of the common currency, the euro

3 The tragicomedy of the Greek debt crisis

4 Dangerous demography: lack of reproduction

5 Suicidal enlargement of the European Union?

6 The state of transforming Eastern Europe

PART II

International factors and outside challenges

7 Malaise of modern capitalism: speculative crises, unemployment, and inequality

8 The Russian challenge: the EU’s security and energy independence

9 The immigration crisis and its explosive consequences

 

Conclusion: further integration or disintegration?

Index

O autorze

Ivan T. Berend is Distinguished Research Professor at the Department of History, University of California, USA. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the British Academy, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europea, and three other European Academy of Sciences and has published more than 30 books and 200 studies.