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Author Berend, T. Iván (Tibor Iván), 1930- author.

Title Against European integration : the European Union and its discontents / Ivan T. Berend
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
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Description 1 online resource
Series Economics in the real world
Economics in the real world.
Contents Existential crisis, the possibility of disintegration and the European Union in the 2010s -- Inequality within and among member countries undermined homogenization and became a source of discontents -- The political representation of discontent : disappearing traditional political parties and rising populism -- Brexit and its possible impact -- Anti-European Union populism in Western and Southern Europe -- Populism flooded Eastern Europe and the Balkans : undermining the EU -- Christian Europe? The use and abuse of Christian values and the populist debate -- The demonization of George Soros and its real meaning in Central and Eastern Europe -- Is the European Union a neoliberal construction that deserves to be destroyed? A debate with left-wing attacks -- Outside discontents : the weakening alliance with the US, a hostile Russia, and Turkey and China at the borders -- Out from crisis or between crises? The EU of the future?
Summary "This book gives a complex description and discussion of today's populist attacks against the European Union following the financial crisis of 2008, which opened the floodgates of dissatisfaction and the migration crisis which destabilized the traditional solidarity basis of the EU. The problem of Brexit is also explored. Each chapter presents one of the main elements of the crisis of the EU. These include West European populism, Central European right-wing populism in power, the exploitation of the EU's mistake during the migration crisis of the mid-2010s; the discovery of Christian ideology against immigration and hidden anti-Semitic propaganda using a hysteric attack against the liberal billionaire philanthropic George Soros, and Brexit. There is a detailed discussion of the failures of the EU to pacify the neighbourhood in the South and North, especially in the Ukraine and the rising hostile outside enemies of the EU including Russia and Turkey, bad relationships with Trump's America, the uncertainty of the NATO alliance and the emergence of a new rival China, that enters into the Central European edge of the EU. The author explores strategies for coping with, and emerging from, this existential crisis and ends with the alternative plans and possibilities for the future of the Eurozone. This will be an invaluable resource for understanding the crisis of the EU, one of the central questions of contemporary international politics for undergraduate, graduate students and readers interested in the discussion surrounding an endangered European integration and difficult world politics"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 29, 2021)
Subject European Union -- Public opinion
SUBJECT European Union. fast (OCoLC)fst00916630
Subject Populism -- European Union countries
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Influence.
LAW / International
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Banks & Banking
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions
UE/CE Intégration.
UE/CE Institutions et organes.
Crise financière.
UE/CE Etats membres.
Migration.
UE/CE Gouvernance.
Opinion publique.
Emigration and immigration -- Public opinion.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
International economic integration -- Public opinion.
International economic relations.
Politics and government.
Populism.
Public opinion.
SUBJECT European Union countries -- Emigration and immigration -- Public opinion
Europe -- Economic integration -- Public opinion
European Union countries -- Politics and government
European Union countries -- Foreign economic relations
Subject Europe.
European Union countries.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020693582
ISBN 9780429200458
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9780429573545
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9780429577765
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