European Disunion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Jack Hayward, Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel

      Pages 1-4

3. Union without Consensus

   1. Union without Consensus

      • Jack Hayward

      Pages 5-14

4. Enfeebled Democratic Legitimacy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. The Difficult Emergence of a European People

      • Michael Bruter

      Pages 17-31

   3. A Nascent Transnational Civil Society

      • Elizabeth Monaghan

      Pages 32-47

   4. An Obdurately National Party Politics

      • Robert Ladrech

      Pages 48-62

5. Institutional Deadlock: A Surfeit of Would-be Leaders

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. National Governments, the European Council and Councils of Ministers: A Plurality of Sovereignties. Member State Sovereigns without an EU Sovereign

      • Jack Hayward

      Pages 65-81

   3. The European Commission Bureaucracy: Handling Sovereignty through the Back and Front Doors

      • Edward C. Page

      Pages 82-98

   4. The Empowerment of Parliaments in EU Integration: Victims or Victors?

      • Maja Kluger Rasmussen

      Pages 99-114

   5. National Courts and European Union Courts

      • Patrick Birkinshaw

      Pages 115-130

   6. Defending the Euro: Unity and Disunity among Europe’s Central Bankers

      • David Howarth

      Pages 131-145

   7. Territorial Flexibility

      • Michael Keating

      Pages 146-161

6. Policy Divergences and Convergences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. Foreign and Defence Policy: The Sovereignty Obsession and The Quest for Elusive Solidarity

      • Anand Menon

      Pages 165-180

   3. Economic and Monetary Disunion?

      • Kenneth Dyson

      Pages 181-199

   4. Social and Labour Market Policy: The (Re-)Emergence of Competitive Tensions

      • Nick Parsons

      Pages 200-214

   5. From Environmental Disunion towards Environmental Union?

      • Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel

      Pages 215-232

7. Adjusting to the Receding Sovereignty of Member States

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233

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The Euro crisis catapulted the EU into its most serious political crisis since its inception, leaving it torn between opposing demands for more sovereignty and solidarity. This volume focuses on the key themes of disunion, sovereignty and solidarity. It assesses the main EU institutions: member states, civil society actors and policy areas. 

• EU Institutions
• Euro
• European Commission
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• government
• Institution
• labor market
• parliament
• Policy
• sovereignty
• european union politics
• us politics

'The book could not have been published at a more timely moment, with the members of the eurozone seeking further and deeper integration to overcome the crisis of the common currency, while the United Kingdom contemplates whether it wishes to remain a member at all [It] provides both an excellent introduction for new students of the EU, as well as an informative and highly topical overview for scholars interested in the various sub-fields of the discipline.' - Common Market Studies

"The European Union is undergoing a profound crisis. This book provides unrivalled insight into the nature of this crisis and a powerful, sustained analysis of the growing tensions between the demands of national sovereignty and the imperatives of solidarity in many different arenas and institutions, which together are threatening the Union with fragmentation and decline." - Andrew Gamble, Prof of Politics, Department of Politics and Internationa Studies, University of Cambridge

"European Disunion: Between Sovereignty and Solidarity identifies and dissects the weaknesses and contradictions in European integration. Editors Jack Hayward and Rüdiger Wurzel bring together leading specialists to assess how the European Union has fared in balancing sovereignty and solidarity. The verdict is nuanced, but the weight of the evidence that the authors uncover suggests a future of disunion rather than union. The book provides an indispensable guide as the Eurozone endgame unfolds." -Liesbet Hooghe, W.R. Kenan Professor, UNC- Chapel Hill and Chair in Multilevel Governance, VU University Amsterdam

"Jack Hayward, Rudi Wurzel and their collaborators have produced a fine, timely and accessible study of the recent history, current state and future prospects of the European project. No one who wants to understand the deeper forces behind the upheavals that have plagued the European Union in the last few years can afford not to read it." - Professor David Marquand, University of Oxford.

• Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Hull, UK

  Jack Hayward, Rüdiger Wurzel

PATRICK BIRKINSHAW Professor of Public Law and Director of the Institute of European Public Law at Hull University, UK MICHAEL BRUTER Reader in Political Science, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK MARTIN BULL Professor of Politics, University of Salford, UK and Academic Director of the European Consortium of Political Research. VESSELIN DIMITROV Reader in the Department of Government, the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK KENNETH DYSON Research Professor in European Political Studies at Cardiff University, UK, Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales JACK HAYWARD Research Professor of Politics, Hull University, UK, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Oxford University, UK and Fellow of the British Academy DAVID HOWARTH Senior Lecturer and Jean Monnet Chair in European Political Economy, University of Edinburgh, UK MICHAEL KEATING Professor of Politics, University of Aberdeen, UK ROBERT LADRECH Professor of European Politics, Keele University, UK PHILIP NORTON (Lord Norton of Louth) Professor of Government and Director of the Centre for Legislative Studies, University of Hull, UK ANAND MENON Professor of West European Politics, University of Birmingham, UK ELIZABETH MONAGHAN Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull, UK EDWARD C PAGE Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK NICKPARSONS Reader in French, School of European Studies, Cardiff University, UK WILLIAM PATERSON Honorary Professor for German and European Politics, Aston Centre for Europe, Aston University, UK MAJA KLUGER RASMUSSEN Doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK RÜDIGER WURZEL Reader and Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Studies at the University of Hull, UK

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