1st Edition

Differentiation and Dominance in Europe’s Poly-Crises

Edited By Jozef Bátora, John Erik Fossum Copyright 2023
430 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

430 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

430 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.