Against European integration : the European Union and its discontents /
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group,
2019.
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| Series: | Economics in the real world ;
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Existential crisis, the possibility of disintegration, and the European Union in the 2010s
- rise of an existential crisis: the economic factors
- Migration crisis and its connection with Europe's demographic crisis
- Terror attacks
- Populist attacks against the EU
- Recognition of the existential crisis
- outside factor: loosening alliances and hostile neighbors
- Deep crisis is over, but are new ones coming?
- Escaping forward?
- 2. Inequalities 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. 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
- consequences of Brexit
- 5. Anti-European Union populism in Western and Southern Europe
- Liberal democracy and its multiethnic culture
- Why populism became triumphant in Britain
- Wilders, Le Pen, and others
- Populist defeats and victories, 2017---18
- 6. Populism flooded Eastern Europe and the Balkans--- undermining the EU
- real home for populism
- eastern part of Germany
- region left behind
- reverse migration crisis of the region
- 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
- special feature of East European nationalist interpretations of Christianity
- What are Christian values, and how do they influence European life?
- Pope Francis's differing interpretation of Christian Europe
- 8. 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
- "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?
- straitjacket of euro and national sovereignty
- Real causes of revolt: social shock caused by complex societal changes
- 10. Outside discontents: the weakening alliance with the US, a hostile Russia, and Turkey and China at the borders
- loosening alliance with the US
- failure to keep Turkey in the EU's orbit
- failure of the Balkans' policy toward the EU
- 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 toward a fiscal and banking union
- First steps toward a European army
- Alternatives for further integration
- Plans for the future of Europe.