1st Edition

Coping with Crisis: Europe’s Challenges and Strategies

Edited By Jale Tosun, Anne Wetzel, Galina Zapryanova Copyright 2015
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

How has the economic and financial crisis that started in 2007 affected European integration? Observers have been speculating about whether the crisis will ultimately lead to a strengthening or weakening of the European Union. This book studies the effects of the crisis on EU policy-making and institutional arrangements on one hand, and citizens’ EU attitudes and political parties’ electoral... Read more

1. The EU in Crisis: Advancing the Debate  2. The Unexpected Winner of the Crisis: The European Commission’s Strengthened Role in Economic Governance  3. The Impact of the Euro Crisis on Citizens’ Support for the European Union  4. ‘We No Longer Love You, But We Don’t Want To Leave You’: The Eurozone Crisis and Popular Euroscepticism in Greece  5. Politicizing Europe in Hard Times: Conflicts over Europe in France in a Long-term Perspective, 1974–2012  6. ‘Beggars can’t be Choosers’: The European Crisis and Chinese Direct Investment in the European Union  7. Crisis and Citizens’ Trust in the European Central Bank — Panel Data Evidence for the Euro Area, 1999–2012  8. European Integration in the Euro Crisis: The Limits of Postfunctionalism

Biography

Jale Tosun holds a PhD in Social Science from the University of Konstanz. She is currently an Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy at the University of Heidelberg.

Anne Wetzel received her PhD at ETH Zurich and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).

Galina Zapryanova holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MZES.