Against the backdrop of a more differentiated EU, this book discusses the relationship between differentiation and domination in the EU in relation to how it has been transformed through the financial and refugee crises, the Covid-19 pandemic, Russian invasion of Ukraine and in general, a more volatile and less rule-bound global context.
Against the backdrop of a more differentiated European Union, this book discusses the relationship between differentiation and domination in the EU in relation to how it has been transformed through the financial and refugee crises, the Covid-19 pandemic, Russian invasion of Ukraine and in general, a more volatile and less rule-bound global context.
In doing so, it assesses to what extent these adaptations represent a significant change, generating new problems and challenges, or on the other hand, providing an opportunity for new solutions or even signalling a new approach to governance that can mitigate problems associated with domination. Differentiation is discussed not only from a legal perspective, but with special attention to structural and institutional arrangements, which includes patterns of path dependence and built-in biases.
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of public sector crisis management, international organisations, and EU politics and studies.
1. Introduction
2. Conceptualising Differentiation and Dominance
3.
Differentiating Shock
4. Eurozone Economic Management after Three Crises:
Have Discretionary Measures Created too much Space for Domination?
5.
Post-Covid-19 Recovery and New Types of Intra-EU Conditionality: The Case of
Slovakia
6. Arbitrariness and Technocracy: The European Central Bank through
Multiple Crises
7. The Status of Dominance in the EU System of Economic
Governance: Drawing upon the Greek Case
8. Differentiation and the Unpicking
of the EUs Asylum System from within: Greek Perceptions and Policies before
and after the 2015 Migration Crisis
9. Differentiated Integration and Unequal
Personal Statuses in the EU
10. United, we Tweet: Belonging, Solidarity and
Othering in German and Greek Twitter-Spheres
11. From Division towards
Convergence? Comparing Crises Discourse on Migration in the Polish Parliament
12. The Ukraine Crisis (2014) and the EUs Foreign Policy Apparatus: A
Differentiating Shock?
13. Is the Differentiated EU Facing up to Chinese
Influence?
14. The Implications of Governance Differentiation in the EU:
Comparing the Sovereign Debt and the Pandemic Crises
15. No Solidarity
without Norm Conformity: Democratic Backsliding Reduces Solidarity and
Increases the Desire for Punishment amongst EU Citizens
16. Conclusion
Jozef Bįtora is Professor in the International Relations Department at Webster Vienna Private University in Austria, and at the Department of Political Science, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia.
John Erik Fossum is Professor, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.
