1st Edition

Crisis and Politicisation The Framing and Re-framing of Europe’s Permanent Crisis

Edited By Benedetta Voltolini, Michal Natorski, Colin Hay Copyright 2021
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

This book elucidates the link between the politics of a now seemingly permanent crisis in Europe and the politicisation of European integration. Looking at the epistemic dimension of crises, it suggests that the way in which a crisis is framed and contested determines its potential impact on the level of politicisation of European integration. Europe is more challenged and contested today than... Read more

Introduction: the politicisation of permanent crisis in Europe, Benedetta Voltolini

Michal Natorski and Colin Hay

1. Politicizing support and opposition to migration in France: the EU asylum policy crisis and direct social activism

Pietro Castelli Gattinara and Lorenzo Zamponi

2. ‘Push or pull’? Framing immigration in times of crisis in the European Union and the United States

Leila Hadj Abdo

3. Construction of the Eurozone crisis: re- and depoliticising European economic integration

Amelie Kutter

4. The Troika in its own words: responding to the politicisation of the southern European crises

Tiago Moreira Ramalho

5. Half-full or half-empty? Framing of UK–EU relations during the Brexit referendum campaign

Tatiana Coutto

6. A "Europe des Nations": far right imaginative geographies and the politicization of cultural crisis on Twitter in Western Europe

Bharath Ganesh and Caterina Froio

7. United we stand in metaphors: EU authority and incomplete politicisation of the crisis in Ukraine

Michal Natorski

8. Ontological crises, framing and the (de)politicisation of EU foreign policy: the case of EU-Israel relations

Benedetta Voltolini

9. European foreign policy in times of crisis: a political development lens

Nikki Ikani

Biography

Benedetta Voltolini is Lecturer in European Foreign Policy in the Department of European and International Studies at King’s College London, UK. Her research focuses on the foreign policy of the EU and its member states towards the Middle East and North Africa, on lobbying and framing in European external relations.

Michal Natorski in Assistant Professor in Public Policy Analysis and Governance at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance/United Nations University-MERIT at the Maastricht University, Netherlands. His research interests include the diffusion of public policies, international practices, the governance of disruptive phenomena and EU foreign policy.

Colin Hay is Professor and Director of Doctoral Studies in Political Sciences at Sciences Po, Paris, France, and founding Director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is lead editor of New Political Economy and founding co-editor of Comparative European Politics and British Politics. He is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Science and, until recently, President of the European University Institute’s Research Council.