The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises

This handbook comprehensively explores the European Union’s institutional and policy responses to crises across policy domains and institutions – including the Euro crisis, Brexit, the Ukraine crisis, the refugee crisis, as well as the global health crisis resulting from COVID-19. It contributes to our understanding of how crisis affects institutional change and continuity, decision-making behavior and processes, and public policy-making. It offers a systematic discussion of how the existing repertoire of theories understand crisis and how well they capture times of unrest and events of disintegration. More generally, the handbook looks at how public organizations cope with crises, and thus probes how sustainable and resilient public organizations are in times of crisis and unrest.

• European Union Politics
• theoretical approaches to crisis
• change in EU institutions
• continuity in EU institutions
• European Council
• European Parliament
• Court of Justice of the European Union
• financial crisis
• Euro crisis
• migration crisis
• refugee crisis
• European solidarity
• Brexit
• Ukraine crisis
• EU-US relations
• legitimacy crisis
• EU response to crisis
• coronavirus crisis
• COVID-19

“Each part of the Handbook has its own introduction which highlights main points of each chapter. This structure is really useful for anyone interested, even without advanced knowledge about current research in EU studies. Given its scope, the book is suited for scholars engaged in both theoretical and empirical research … . the book certainly deserves attention and inspires further research, including theorizing about disintegration and differentiation of the EU.” (Aleksandra Spalińska, JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. (59) 3, May, 2021)

• Inland School of Business and Social Sciences, Inland University, Rena and Lillehammer, Norway

  Marianne Riddervold, Jarle Trondal

• Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

  Akasemi Newsome

Marianne Riddervold is Professor in Political Science at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), and Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Jarle Trondal is Professor of Political Science at the Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, and Professor of European Studies at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.

Akasemi Newsome is Associate Director at the Institute of European Studies and Executive Director at the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and Senior Fellow at the Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences.

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