Europe's Crises

Today, the European Union is facing a crisis as serious as anything it has experienced since its origins more than half a century ago. What makes this so serious is that it is not a single crisis but rather multiple crises – the euro crisis, the migration/refugee crisis, Brexit, etc. – that overlap and reinforce one another, creating a cumulative array of challenges that threatens the very survival of the EU. For the first time in its history, there is a real risk that the EU could break up.

This volume brings together sociologists, economists and political scientists from around Europe to shed light on how the EU got into this predicament. It argues that the multiple crises that have plagued the European Union in the last decade stem to a large extent from flaws in its construction and that these flaws are consequences of the political processes that led to the formation of the EU – in other words, the decisions that made possible the development of the EU created the conditions for the multiple crises it experiences today.

This timely and wide-ranging book on one of the most important issues of our time will be of great interest to students and scholars in the social sciences, to politicians and policy-makers and to anyone concerned with Europe and its future.

Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California.

List of Contributors
List of Figures
Introduction
Part I: Economic Crises
Chapter 1: The End of European Integration as We Knew It: A Political Economy Analysis
Olivier Bouin
Chapter 2: Making Sense of the Greek Crisis, 2010-2016
Manos Matsaganis
Chapter 3: The Consequences of Crisis on the European Banking System
Emilio Ontiveros
Chapter 4: The Financial Crisis and the Restructuring of the Italian Banking System
Sviatlana Hlebik
Chapter 5: European Science and Technology in a Time of Crisis: ERC, EIT and Beyond
João Caraça et al.
Part II: Social Crises
Chapter 6: Austerity and Health: The Impact of the Crisis in the UK and Rest of Europe
David Stuckler et al.
Chapter 7: Suffering: The Human and Social Costs of Economic Crisis
John B. Thompson et al.
Chapter 8: Achilles’ Heel: Europe’s Ambivalent Identity
Manuel Castells
Chapter 9: Europe Facing Evil: Xenophobia, Racism, anti-Semitism and Terrorism
Michel Wieviorka
Chapter 10: Europe and Refugees: Tragedy Bordering on Farce
Paul Collier
Part III: Political Crises
Chapter 11: The Crisis of Legitimacy of European Institutions
Sara B. Hobolt
Chapter 12: Narratives of Responsibility: German Politics in the Greek Debt Crisis
Claus Offe
Chapter 13: The Double Crisis of European Social Democracy
Colin Crouch
Chapter 14: The Rise of the Radical Right
Michel Wieviorka
Chapter 15: From Crisis to Social Movement to Political Change: Podemos in Spain
Manuel Castells
Chapter 16: Italy: Autumn of the Second Republic by Pierfranco Pelizzetti
Chapter 17: Brexit: The Causes and Consequences of the UK’s Decision to Leave the EU
Geoffrey Evans et al.
Chapter 18: Social Movements, Participation and Crisis in Europe
Gustavo Cardoso et al.
Conclusion

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