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- Provides a comprehensive conceptualization and explanation of European disintegration
- Based upon a thorough exploration of a wide variety of theories on European integration and comparative analyses of failing federations, falling empires, and states
- Answers questions surrounding the future of the EU and how to address Euroscepticism
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics (PSEUP)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book accounts for whether and how the path of the European Union (EU) has developed towards potential disintegration. These questions have become particularly relevant since the outbreak of the debt crises in the Eurozone and the Brexit referendum. The author critically subverts theories of European integration and analyses the rise and fall of federations, empires and states in a comparative perspective. The most promising theory presented here indicates that Brexit is not likely to be followed by other member states leaving the EU. Nevertheless, the EU has been undermined from within as it cannot adequately address Eurosceptic dissatisfaction from both the left and right. This book is an essential read for everyone interested in the EU and its future.
Keywords
- disintegration of the European Union
- debt crises in the Eurozone
- Brexit referendum
- collapse of the EU
- Euroscepticism
- theories of European integration
- causes of Eurosceticism
- reasons for Brexit
- dissatisfaction with the EU
- disbanding of the EU
- Eurocrisis
- effects of Brexit on the EU
- theoretical basis to integration
- european union politics
Reviews
the cursory reflections of the day’ … .” (Sean Hanley, Slavonic and East European Review SEER, Vol. 97 (3), July, 2019)
Authors and Affiliations
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Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Hans Vollaard
About the author
Hans Vollaard is Lecturer in Dutch and European Politics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He has recently published on European disintegration, the Netherlands in the EU, European regulation of cross-border healthcare, and local democracy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: European Disintegration
Book Subtitle: A Search for Explanations
Authors: Hans Vollaard
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41465-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-41464-9Published: 31 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-68207-2Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-41465-6Published: 16 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2662-5873
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5881
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 265
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Union Politics, International Organization, European Politics, Comparative Politics