Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. List of authors ix
4. Part I: Contextualising the EU and crises
5. 1 Introduction: The EU under strain 1
6. 2 Polity attacks and policy failures: The EU polycrisis and integration theory 27
7. Part II: The legal and democratic fundaments of the EU
8. 3 Crisis-driven EU reforms in and beyond treaty limits: Is it time for a treaty change? 51
9. 4 What happened to the idea of ‘Ever Closer Union’? Differentiation as a persistent feature of European integration 77
10. 5 The difficulty of upholding the rule of law across the European Union: The case of Poland as an illustration of problems the European Union is facing 95
11. 6 Representation in polycrisis: Towards a new research agenda for EU citizens 115
12. Part III: The EU in a changing world
13. 7 After the deluge: Europe, the European Union and crisis in the world arena 133
14. 8 EU enlargement in times of crisis: Strategic enlargement, the conditionality principle and the future of the “Ever-Closer Union” 155
15. 9 The EU after Brexit: EU-UK relations and the latent crisis of withdrawal 173
16. 10 A strained partnership? A typology of tensions in the EU-US transatlantic relationship 191
17. Part IV: European policy fields shaped by crisis
18. 11 Consolidating the fortress Europe: Conceptualizations of solidarity in the EU Asylum System governance post-2015 211
19. 12 EU Health: From pandemic crisis management to a European Health Union? 233
20. 13 Leader or laggard? Diversity and minority rights in a union under strain 253
21. 14 The slow-burning climate emergency and the European Green Deal: Prospects and pitfalls in the polycrisis era 275
22. 15 European economic governance in times of crisis: Solidarity, responsibility, and legitimacy in EU debt mutualisation 293
23. Index 319