| Vendor | |
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C.H.BECK Anna-Sophia Mäder |
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| German | |
Entwined Nations
The Paradoxical Mechanics Of European Integration
This book provides a systematic guide to the functional areas of the EU and investigates the patterns of its decision-making processes using examples from the legal, political and cultural spheres. It sheds light on the internal tensions of European integration and focusses on their cross-problematic regularities: a limited transfer of power to the Union level is followed by its delimitation. This in turn results in strong ambivalences on the part of the states and their citizens towards integration.
These ambivalences can only be managed, but not eliminated. What advances Europeanization leads to conflicts with the national self-assertion of many individual states. In this situation, the global political upheaval is increasingly forcing Europe to adapt to the changed situation. This astute assessment of the current state of European integration also addresses whether and how the European Union can succeed in countering the outbreak of atavistic political violence and stemming the rise of populist forces in the member states.