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Differentiation and Dominance in Europe’s Poly-Crises
Against the backdrop of a more differentiated European Union, this book discusses the relationship between differentiation and domination in the EU in relation to how it has been transformed through the financial and refugee crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in general, a more volatile and less rule-bound global context.
In doing so, it assesses to what extent these adaptations represent significant change, generating new problems and challenges, or on the other hand, providing an opportunity for new solutions or even signalling a new approach to governance that can mitigate problems associated with domination. Differentiation is discussed not only from a legal perspective, but with special attention to structural and institutional arrangements, which includes patterns of path dependence and built-in biases.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of public sector crisis management, international organisations, and EU politics and studies.
1. Introduction
Jozef Bátora and John Erik Fossum
2. Conceptualising Differentiation and Dominance
John Erik Fossum and Jozef Bátora
3. Differentiating Shock
John Erik Fossum
4. Eurozone Economic Management after Three Crises: Have Discretionary Measures Created Too Much Space for Domination?
Simona Piattoni and Ton Notermans
5. COVID-19 Recovery and New Forms of Intra-EU Conditionality: The Case of Slovakia
Jozef Bátora
6. Arbitrariness and Technocracy: The European Central Bank through Multiple Crises
Ingrid Hjertaker and Bent Sofus Tranøy
7. The Status of Dominance in the EU System of Economic Governance: Drawing upon the Greek Case
Filippa Chatzistavrou
8. Differentiation and the Unpicking of the EU’s Asylum System from within: Greek Perceptions and Policies before and after the 2015 Migration Crisis
Dia Anagnostou
9. Differentiated Integration and Unequal Personal Statuses in the EU
Espen D.H. Olsen
10. “United, we Tweet”: Belonging, Solidarity in German and Greek Twitter Spheres
Martin Moland and Asimina Michailidou
11. From Division towards Convergence? Comparing Crises Discourse on Migration in the Polish Parliament
Elodie Thevenin
12. The Ukraine Crisis (2014) and the EU’s Foreign Policy Apparatus: A Differentiating Shock?
Viliam Ostatník
13. Is the Differentiated EU Facing up to Chinese Influence?
Cécile Pelaudeix
14. The Implications of Governance Differentiation in the EU: Comparing the Sovereign Debt and the Pandemic Crises
Sergio Fabbrini
15. No Solidarity without Norm Conformity: Democratic Backsliding Reduces Solidarity and Increases the Desire for Punishment amongst EU Citizens
Max Heermann and Dirk Leuffen
16. Conclusion
John Erik Fossum and Jozef Bátora
Biography
Jozef Bátora is Professor in the International Relations Department at Webster Vienna Private University in Austria, and at the Department of Political Science, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
John Erik Fossum is Professor, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.
