1st Edition
Towards a Segmented European Political Order The European Union's Post-crises Conundrum
1. Introduction
Jozef Bátora and John Erik Fossum
2. The Institutional Make-up of Europe’s Segmented Political Order
John Erik Fossum
3. Illusions of Convergence: The Persistent Simplification of a Wicked Crisis
Bent Sofus Tranøy and Herman Schwartz
4. Epistemic Worries about Economic Expertise
Cathrine Holst and Anders Molander
5. What Kind of Crisis and How to Deal with it? The Segmented Border Logic in the European Migration Crisis
Espen D.H. Olsen
6. Toxic Neoliberalism on the EU’s Periphery: Slovakia, the Euro and the Migrant Crisis
John Gould and Darina Malová
7. European Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Towards Differentiated Integration
Asimina Michailidou and Hans-Jörg Trenz
8. Interstitial Organisations and Segmented Integration in EU Governance
Jozef Bátora
9. Undermining the Standards of Liberal Democracy within the European Union: The Polish Case and the Limits of Post-Enlargement Democratic Conditionality
Rafal Riedel
10. Newspaper Portrayal of the EU in Crises in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary: The Union’s Imagined Linearity
Max Steuer
11. European Crises and Foreign Policy Attitudes in Europe
Michal Onderco
12. Integration through Differentiation and Segmentation: The Case of one Member State from 1950 to Brexit (and Beyond)
Christopher Lord
13. Conclusion: A Segmented Political Order and Future Options
Jozef Bátora and John Erik Fossum
Biography
Jozef Bátora is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, and at the International Relations Department, Webster Vienna Private University, Austria.
John Erik Fossum is Professor at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.
This collection foregrounds the institutional fault lines, ideas and ideologies that make today's EU a uniquely "segmented" political order. Its thought-provoking contributions help us see that different aspects of European governance are simultaneously moving in several different directions – and that this has major consequences for how we understand its whole system. – Craig Parsons, University of Oregon, USA.
