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Theorising the Crises of the European Union

Introduction Crisis of European integration: exceptional times or permanent state?What is a crisis?Contextualizing EU's crises Distinctive features of the crisis context since 2009 Understanding the polycrisis Presentation of the book Notes References Legitimacy crisis in the European Union Introduction The EU as an object of legitimation A: Encompassing powers B: Monopoly powers C: Final powers D: Exit powers E: Coercive powers Types of legitimacy crisis Crisis tendencies Conclusion References Sovereignty conflicts in the European Union Introduction: sovereignty, an elusive concept Grand theories of EU integration and sovereignty Neo-functionalism Intergovernmentalism Neo-functionalist and intergovernmentalist accounts of the EU's contemporary crises The rise of contestation, democracy, and sovereignty in the EU Renewed approaches: post-functionalism and new intergovernmentalism Problematic parliamentarism in the EU multi-level politics The rise of popular sovereignty claims The multi-crises of the EU as conflicts of sovereignty A constructivist and multidimensional approach Claims to sovereignty in the EU's multiple crises Conclusion Acknowledgements References Cleavage politics and European integration Introduction A dynamic understanding of cleavage formation European integration and the new integration-demarcation cleavage Europe's crises and the restructuring of political conflict Northwestern Europe Southern Europe Central-Eastern Europe Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes References The new intergovernmentalism and the Euro Crisis: a painful case?Introduction Problems of preference formation A crisis of consensus-seeking and deliberation Supranational preferences Delegation and de novo bodies Magnifying Europe's disequilibrium The new intergovernmentalism and the European refugee crisis Conclusion Acknowledgement Notes References Neofunctionalism in the decade of crises Introduction Neofunctionalism and politicization The role of European integration in "ordinary" Europeans' life prior to the crises An emerging European party system?2 Populist efforts to mobilize against the EU during the crises Citizen mobilization for/against the EU and its policies during the crises How different this time?The Brexit trigger?Acknowledgment Notes References Between neo-functionalist optimism and post-functionalist pessimism: integrating politicisation into integration theory Introduction Grand theories of European integration and public EU politicisation Insights from the literature on EU politicisation Conclusions: integrating politicisation into the integration theory?Acknowledgements Notes References Sociological approaches to the crisis Introduction What are sociological approaches?EU sociology of everyday practices Power as relation Actor-centred constructivism The economic and financial crises: a norm-creating process Implementation and adjustments European semester Bailouts How classical theories explain the economic and financial crisis?Liberal intergovernmentalism Neo-functionalism Constructivism Sociological approaches in understanding the economic and financial crisis Framing through actor-centred constructivism The society-EU relationship under scrutiny in times of crisis Conclusion Acknowledgements References European communion and planetary organic crisis Introduction: European communion theory of crisis Neoliberal crisis of economy through inequality European communion and neoliberal economic crisis Demographic crisis of society through injustice European communion and demographic social crisis Climatic crisis of ecology through unsustainability European communion and climatic ecological crisis Proxy crisis of conflict through insecurity European communion and proxy conflict crisis Ethno-nationalist crisis of politics through irresilience European communion and ethno-national politics crisis Conclusion: European communion and the planetary organic crisis Bibliography The limits of the Europeanization research agenda: decoding the reverse process in and around the EU Introduction (De-)Europeanization research agenda: achievements and shortcomings Domestic context as the driver of (de-) Europeanization: Hungary and Turkey De-Europeanization and autocratization Tracing autocratization and de-Europeanization in Hungary Tracing autocratization and de-Europeanization in Turkey Conclusion: rethinking the role of the EU in (de-)Europeanization in a crisis context Notes References ASEAN and the EU in times of crises: critical junctures from the perspective of comparative regionalism Introduction Conceptualising comparative regional integration and critical juncture analysis Regional core states and external hegemons External and internal institutional environment External normative environment and ideas of regionalism Applying the critical junctures approach to ASEAN and the EU in times of crisis ASEAN and East Asia Europe and the EU Analysis — drivers, spoilers, and dissolvers of regional institutions Regional core states and external hegemons External and internal institutional environment External and internal norms, beliefs, and ideas Conclusion Notes References Differentiation as a response to crises?Introduction Defining differentiation Understanding supply and demand for differentiation Differentiation and European crises Denmark and Sweden: between de facto and de jure differentiation Greece and Iceland after the great recession: two diverging patterns of differentiation Brexit, disintegration and the future of Europe Conclusion References Understanding and explaining the European Union in a crisis context: concluding reflections Introduction Main findings Theoretical findings Empirical findings Methodological findings Concluding reflections: the EU and the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic Understanding the EU's initial response to the Coronavirus pandemic An assessment of the EU's early response: just another crisis? Or the beginning of the end?Conclusion References

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