The European Union at an Inflection Point : (Dis)integrating or the New Normal?

This volume analyses different facets of the European Union: closer integration among the member states; policy making within a ‘normal’ political system; and the implications of European integration for its member states. It also considers whether the challenges currently confronting the EU mark an inflection point for the Union and for the study of the EU. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

The cutting-edge contributions to this book analyse different facets of the European Union (EU): closer integration among the member states, policymaking within a ‘normal’ political system, and the implications of European integration for its member states. This book also considers whether the challenges currently confronting the EU – the lingering Eurozone debt crises, the migrant/refugee crisis, the British decision to leave the EU, and terrorist attacks in Belgium, France and Germany – mark an inflection point for the Union and for the study of the EU. For the first time, ‘less Europe’, rather than closer integration, has emerged as a serious option in response to crisis. This possibility reignites questions of (dis)integration and calls into question the assumption of the EU as a ‘normal’ political system. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.