Ivan T Berend

Against European Integration

The European Union and its Discontents

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a concise picture of the existential conflicts that endanger the European Union, namely the various types of discontents, both inside and outside the EU, and presents several proposals as to how we can emerge from the crisis and look to the future of the Eurozone.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780367191078
• ISBN-10: 0367191075
• Artikelnr.: 56924094

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Existential crisis, the possibility of disintegration and the European
Union in the 2010s
The rise of an existential crisis: the economic factors. Migration crisis
and its connection with Europe's demographic crisis. Muslim terror atacks.
Populist attacks against the EU. Recognition of the existential crisis. The
outside factor: loosening and hostile neighbors. Deep crisis is over, but
are new ones coming? Escaping forward?
2. Inequality within and among member countries undermined homogenization
and became a source of discontents
Capitalism and inequality. Increasing inequality within the EU countries.
Inequality among member countries of the EU.
3. The political representation of discontent: disappearing traditional
political parties and rising populism
From class to national parties. Old mass parties are disappearing. Melting
down of the social democratic parties. Rising populist parties. Central
political issues for populists.
4. Brexit and its possible impact
Joining late-leaving early. 'Hard' or 'soft' landing? The Chequers plan.
The consequences of Brexit.
5. Anti-European Union Populism in Western and Southern Europe
Liberal democracy and its multi-ethnic culture. Why became populism triumph
in Britain? Wilders, Le Pen and others. Populist defeats and victories,
2017-2018.
6. Populism flooded Eastern Europe and the Balkans-undermining the EU
Real home for populism. The eastern part of Germany. The region left
behind. The reverse migration crisis of the region. The crisis of 2008 and
austerity policy-authoritarian nationalism.
7. Christian Europe? The use and abuse of Christian values and the populist
debate
Populism and Christianity. The special feature of East European nationalist
interpretations of Christianity. Christian values and how they influence
European life? Pope Francis's differing interpretation of Christian Europe.
8. The demonization of George Soros and its real meaning in Central and
Eastern Europe
Right-wing anti-Soros hysteria all over. Putin's Russia gave the signal.
"Let's not leave Soros the last laugh". Anti-Soros mania in Eastern Europe.
Soros's view on immigration in Europe. The "Secret Message" of anti-Soros
hysteria.
9. Is the European Union a neoliberal construction that deserves to be
destroyed? A debate with left-wing attacks
Does attacking the EU equate to anti-neoliberalism? Globalization or
regionalization? End of globalization? the increasing importance of
regionalization. Austerity policy as exploitation of peripheral countries?
Serving the oligarchs? The straitjacket of euro and national sovereignty.
Real causes of revolt: social shock caused by complex societal changes.
10. Outside discontents on the outside: the weakening alliance with the US,
a hostile Russia, and Turkey and China at the borders
A loosening alliance with the US. The failure to keep Turkey in the EU's
orbit. The failure of the Balkans' policy towards the EU. The failure of
the EU's southern and eastern neighborhood policies. Russia against the EU:
its counter attacks and provocations. Europe's dangerous oil dependence on
Russia and the EU's plans to eliminate it. China is entering the ring: the
Balkan Silk Road.
11. Out from crisis or between crises? The EU of the future
Steps of further integration: the road towards a fiscal and banking union.
First steps towards a European army. Alternatives for further integration.
Plans for the future of Europe.
Index