The Crisis behind the Eurocrisis

The Eurocrisis as a Multidimensional Systemic Crisis of the EU

Eva Nanopoulos, Fotis Vergis

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781108470346
• eBook ISBN: 9781108622028
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: International Law
• Index: Law

The Crisis behind the Euro-Crisis encourages dialogue among scholars across the social sciences in an attempt to challenge the narrative that regarded the Euro-crisis as an exceptional event. It is suggested instead that the Euro-crisis, along with the subsequent crises the EU has come to face, was merely symptomatic of deeper systemic cracks. This book's aim is to uncover that hidden systemic crisis - the 'crisis behind the Euro-crisis'. Under this reading it emerges that what needs to be questioned is not only the allegedly purely economic character of the Euro-crisis, but, more fundamentally, its very classification as an 'emergency'. Instead, the Euro-crisis needs to be regarded as expressive of a chronic, dysfunctional, but 'normal' condition of the EU. By following this line of analysis, this book illuminates not only the causes of contemporary turbulences in the European project, but perhaps the 'true' nature of the EU itself.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction The Elephant in the Room: A Tale of Crisis
• 1 There Is No (Legal) Alternative: Codifying Economic Ideology into Law
• Part I The Crisis as a Crisis of the EU’s Identity
• Part II The Crisis as a Crisis of the EU’s Political and Democratic Legitimacy
• Part III The Crisis as a Crisis of the EU’s Economic Model
• Part IV The Crisis as a Crisis of the EU’s Social Character
• Part V Joining the Dots and the Way Forward
• Conclusion
• Index