The Crisis of the European Union: An Application of Murphy’s Law
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18800/agenda.201701.001Keywords:
European Union, euro-scepticism, euro-crisis, governance, Russia, MENAAbstract
The present article suggests that the various crises that have been affecting the European Union since 2008 have essentially structural causes. Two of them are the subject of this analysis. On the one hand, European regionalism is experiencing a crisis of legitimacy due to its technocratic character, the predominance of the neoliberal paradigm in its policies and the lack of a properly European identity among the population. On the other hand, the EU faces a crisis of a geopolitical kind that includes three main components: the growing vulnerability towards the MENA; the reappearance of a «Cold War logic» in its relations with Moscow and, in general, the same characteristics of the current international order.
Downloads
References
Ash, T.G. (2012). “The Crisis of Europe. How the Union Came Together and Why It’s Falling Apart”. Foreign Affairs, 91 (5), 2-15.
Comisión Europea (2017). Libro Blanco sobre el Futuro de Europa. Reflexiones y escenarios para la Europa de los Veintisiete en 2025. Bruselas: CE.
Comunidades Europeas (2004). Tratado por el que se establece una Constitución para Europa. Luxemburgo: Oficina de Publicaciones Oficiales de las Comunidades Europeas.
Holslag, J. (2015). De kracht van het paradijs. Hoe Europa kan overleven in de Aziatische eeuw. Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij.
Kundnani, H. (2015). The Paradox of German Power. London: Hurst Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190245504.001.0001
Moreno Juste, A. (2009). “El proceso de construcción europea: de la CECA al Tratado de Maastricht”. En Pereira Castañeras, J.C. Historia de las Relaciones Internacionales Contemporáneas. Madrid: Ariel, 561-584.
Nancy, J. (2017). Two years until the 2019 European elections. Special Eurobarometer of the European Parliament. Brussels: European Parliamentary Research Service.
Rummens, S. (2016). Wat een theater! Politiek in tijden van populisme en technocratie. Kalmthout: Pelckmans Pro.
Sakwa, R. (2015). “The death of Europe? Continental fates after Ukraine”. International Affairs, 91 (3), 553-579. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12281
Toplak, C. & Šumi, I. (2012). “Europe (an Union): Imagined Community in the Making?” Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 20 (1), 7-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/14782804.2012.656949
European Union (2016). Shared Vision, Common Action: a Stronger Europe. A Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy. Brussels: EU.
Van Meurs, Wim y otros (2013). Europa in alle Staten. Zestig jaar geschiedenis van de Europese integratie. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij Vantilt
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2017 Agenda Internacional
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
