Overview
- Reassesses the challenges and prospects of the European integration process
- Highlights topical and troubling issues, such as the success of populist and strongly Eurosceptic parties
- Includes an analysis of the Brexit and the Euro crisis
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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The External Dimension of the European Union: European Development Aid, Enlargement Process in the Balkans, and the External Sanctions System
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Institutional Change in the EU: The Rule of Law Crisis and Differentiated Integration as a Possible Solution
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Populism and Nationalism in the EU: The Role of Institutions and Civil Society, Tensions in Central and Eastern Europe and Brexit
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Between Economic Divide and Social Cohesion: Features that Bond the EU Together and Centrifugal Forces
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About this book
In light of Europe’s prolonged state of crisis, this book reassesses the challenges and prospects of the European integration process. Scholars from diverse disciplines reflect on various types of integration by analyzing political, economic and sociological variables, while also taking legal and cultural constraints into account. Readers will learn about the dilemmas and challenges of the European transformation process as well as political reforms to overcome these challenges.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Luigi Bonatti (“Laurea” in philosophy Pisa, Diploma Scuola Normale Superiore, PhD in economics Columbia) is Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Trento. In recent years, he published on China’s growth and its impact on the world economy, the crisis of the Eurozone and the German standpoint toward it, the Italian persistent stagnation, the socio-economic features underlying the US financial crisis, the structural causes of anemic economic growth in the advanced economies.
Carlo Ruzza (MA SUNY, PhD Harvard) is Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Trento where he teaches courses on European and International Politics. His research interests focus upon European Union studies, the populist radical right in Europe and political movements. He is also interested in advocacy processes at European level, which include a focus on the efforts of civil society groups to affect policy-making in areas such as EU anti-discrimination policy and environmental policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Highs and Lows of European Integration
Book Subtitle: Sixty Years After the Treaty of Rome
Editors: Luisa Antoniolli, Luigi Bonatti, Carlo Ruzza
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93626-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93625-3Published: 13 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06696-3Published: 31 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93626-0Published: 03 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 256
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Union Politics, European Integration, European Law, European History, European Politics