Overview
- Builds on archival material, memoires of leading policymakers and civil servants, and press reports
- Analyses eight major cases over the entire integration process
- Offers explanations for the striking variation in the outcomes of European integration crises
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)
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The book offers explanations for the striking variation in the outcomes of European integration crises. It analyzes eight major cases over the entire integration process, starting from the early 1950s and lasting until very recently. All cases went beyond a single policy field or member state but affected key features, principles, and objectives of European integration. As such, they qualify as “constitutional crises”. My cases comprise the crisis of the European Defence Community (1952-54); the empty chair crisis (1965-66); the oil crisis (1973-74); the budgetary rebate crisis (1979-84); the end of the Cold War crisis (1989-92); the Constitutional Treaty crisis (2004-07); the Euro crisis (2009-12); and the migration crisis (2015-16). Taking a historical-comparative perspective, the book shows that crises have been an integral part of the European integration process since its beginning. European integration, after all, started with a major setback when member states in 1954 failedto realize plans for a European army through the European Defense Community.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Reviews
“Creative, refined, thorough, and innovative. At times when terms such as ‘poly-crisis’ and ‘perma-crisis’ have become standard vocabulary, Lucas Schramm offers a fresh look at European integration and crisis politics that combines empirical breadth, historical depth, and theoretical sophistication.” (--Ulrich Krotz, Harvard University, United States.)
“The first theoretical book which adopts a truly long-term perspective on EU crises. Lucas Schramm brilliantly demonstrates that crises have had very different effects on the integration process by reviewing European integration since the 1950s.” (--Christian Lequesne, Sciences PoParis, France.)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Lucas Schramm is Assistant Professor at the Geschwister Scholl Institute, the Department for Political Science at LMU Munich. Germany. He has published several peer-reviewed articles in leading academic journals including Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, and Journal of European Integration. In addition, he is the author or co-author of several chapters in handbooks and edited volumes dealing with aspects of European integration and EU politics. He is the co-author of the monograph “The European Council as a Crisis Manager: The EU’s Fiscal Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic” (with Wolfgang Wessels and Tobias Kunstein. 2022). His research has also been published in several European and national newspapers, as well as in the form of blog posts.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crises of European Integration
Book Subtitle: Joining Together or Falling Apart?
Authors: Lucas Schramm
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54748-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54747-8Published: 09 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54750-8Due: 10 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54748-5Published: 08 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-5873
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 303
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Politics, Public Policy, Political History