Reframing Europe’s Future. Challenges and failures of the European construction

The global financial crisis which erupted in 2008 had an astounding yet varied impact on the European Union (EU), with some countries benefiting from the crisis while others suffered. Today many more and varied voices articulate increasing frustration, dissatisfaction, distrust and cynicism with the current state of affairs in Europe.

This book addresses the challenges and failures of the European construction today from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to identify the deeper, structural causes of the failure of the European project by investigating a variety of aspects, placing Europe in a historical perspective and interpreting its trajectory in a global context. In doing so it argues that the EU, the unfinished European polity, the single European market, and the set of supranational institutions, are not sustainable in their present forms.

This text will be of key interest to students and practitioners of international relations, economics, European studies, democracy and contemporary European and global challenges.

Contents:
+ Introduction - Jody Jensen and Ferenc Miszlivetz
Part 1: Landscape During Crisis: Reframing Interpretations and Expectations
1. Europe: An Epistemological Crisis - György Schöpflin
2. Geopolitical Scenarios for European Integration: The Decades to Come - József Böröcz
3. Like a Phoenix from the Ashes: Looking for a Constitutional Moment in Crisis - Doris Wydra and Sonja Puntscher Riekmann
4. Disruption or Consolidation? Ideological Orthodoxies and Heresies - Jody Jensen

Part 2: Economic, Financial and Monetary Aspects of the EU Crisis
5. The Cost of Fiscal Disunion in Europe and the New Model of Fiscal Federalism - Guido Montani
6. From Democratic Dissatisfaction to Financial Crisis - Dóra Győrffy
7. The Origin and Characteristics of the Euro Crisis and Solutions - Tibor Palánkai

Part 3: Landscape in the ‘Peripheries’: Inside and Outside the EU
8. Anatomy of the Euro-crisis - Annamaria Artner
9. Does Austerity Prevail Over Democracy? Two Bad Models: Italy and Greece - Federico Rampini
10. Yugoslav and EU Decline: The Dynamics of Dissolution and Sovereignty Reframed - Stefano Bianchini

Part 4: Citizenship and Democracy in Europe
11. The Crisis of the Euro, the Crisis of the European Union, and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe - Philippe C. Schmitter
12. The Life and Death of Democracies - Stuart Holland
13. Freedom, Citizenship, Culture and the Changing Role of the Intellectual Class: A European Perspective - Steve Austen

Part 5: The Future of Europe: Navigating between National Sovereignty and Democratic Cosmopolitanism
14. The EU and the Quest for Political Union - Jaap Hoeksma
15. Europe Between Two Worlds - Elemér Hankiss
16. The Post-Euromaidan Future for Europe - Ferenc Miszlivetz