1st Edition

European Integration in Times of Crisis Theoretical perspectives

Edited By Demosthenes Ioannou, Patrick Leblond, Arne Niemann Copyright 2016
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Few events over the past few decades have given rise to an amount of debate and speculation concerning the state of the European Union (EU) and the future of European integration as the economic and financial crisis that began in 2007. In spite of substantial media, policy-making and academic attention, the fundamental questions of why and how the euro area (EA) has remained not only intact but... Read more

1. European integration and the crisis: practice and theory  Demosthenes Ioannou, Patrick Leblond and Arne Niemann

2. Liberal intergovernmentalism and the euro area crisis  Frank Schimmelfennig

3. European economic integration in times of crisis: a case of neofunctionalism?  Arne Niemann and Demosthenes Ioannou

4. A historical institutionalist explanation of the EU’s responses to the euro area financial crisis  Amy Verdun

5. Public opinion and the crisis: the dynamics of support for the euro  Sara B. Hobolt and Christopher Wratil

6. Political legitimacy and European monetary union: contracts, constitutionalism and the normative logic of two-level games  Richard Bellamy and Albert Weale

7. Europe’s ordoliberal iron cage: critical political economy, the euro area crisis and its management  Magnus Ryner

Biography

Demosthenes Ioannou is Principal Economist in the Directorate General International and European Relations of the European Central Bank.

Patrick Leblond is Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Research Associate at CIRANO.

Arne Niemann is Professor of International Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at the University of Mainz.