Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union

Cambridge University Press, 8/27/2020
EAN 9781108711777, ISBN10: 1108711774

Paperback, 444 pages, 24.8 x 19 x 2.5 cm
Language: English

The European Union of today cannot be studied as it once was. This original new textbook provides a much-needed update on how the EU's policies and institutions have changed in light of the multiple crises and transformations since 2010. An international team of leading scholars offer systematic accounts on the EU's institutional regime, policies, and its community of people and states. Each chapter is structured to explain the relevant historical developments and institutional framework, presenting the key actors, the current controversies and discussing a paradigmatic case study. Each chapter also provides ideas for group discussions and individual research topics. Moving away from the typical, neutral account of the functioning of the EU, this textbook will stimulate readers' critical thinking towards the EU as it is today. It will serve as a core text for undergraduate and graduate students of politics and European studies taking courses on the politics of the EU, and those taking courses in comparative politics and international organizations including the EU.

Foreword
Chronology
Glossary
Abbreviations
1. The European Union as a political regime, a set of policies and a community after the crisis
an overview Ramona Coman, Amandine Crespy and Vivien Schmidt
Part I. The EU's political regime
2. European regional integration from the 20th to the 21st century Kiran Klaus Patel
3. Institutions and decision-making in the European Union Sergio Fabbrini
4. Regulatory networks and policy communities Jacob Hasselbalch and Eleni Tsingou
5. Old and new concepts of EU governance
intergovernmentalism, supranationalism, and parliamentarism Vivien A. Schmidt
Part II. Key policy areas in flux
6. Cohesion and the EU budget
is conditionality undermining solidarity? John Bachtler and Carlos Mendez
7. Agriculture and environment
greening or greenwashing? Gerry Alons
8. The internal market
increasingly differentiated? Michelle Egan
9. The European Monetary Union
how did the Euro area get a lender of last resort? Cornel Ban
10. Social policy
is the EU doing enough to tackle inequalities? Amandine Crespy
11
Labour markets and mobility
how to reconcile competitiveness and social justice László Andor
12
Managing the refugee crisis
a divided and restrictive Europe? Sarah Wolff
13
Security in the Schengen Area
limiting rights and freedoms? Julien Jeandesboz
14
Trade policy
which gains for which losses? Ferdi De Ville
15. Global tax governance
is the EU promoting tax justice? Rasmus Corlin Christensen and Len Seabrooke
16. The common security and defence policy in transition
towards 'strategic autonomy'? Jolyon Howorth
Part III
Existential debates
17. North and south, east and west
is it possible to bridge the gap? Kristin Makszin, Gergő Medve-Bálint and Dorothee Bohle
18. Democracy and the rule of law
how can the EU uphold its common values? Ramona Coman
19. Democracy and disintegration
does the state of democracy in the EU put the integrity of the Union at risk? Joseph Lacey and Kalypso Nicolaïdis
Appendices
Index.