Reframing Europe's Future : Challenges and Failures of the European Construction

The global financial crisis which erupted in 2008 had an astounding yet varied impact on the European Union (EU), with some countries benefiting from the crisis while others suffered. Today many more and varied voices articulate increasing frustration, dissatisfaction, distrust and cynicism with the current state of affairs in Europe.

This book addresses the challenges and failures of the European construction today from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to identify the deeper, structural causes of the failure of the European project by investigating a variety of aspects, placing Europe in a historical perspective and interpreting its trajectory in a global context. In doing so it argues that the EU, the unfinished European polity, the single European market, and the set of supranational institutions, are not sustainable in their present forms.

This text will be of key interest to students and practitioners of international relations, economics, European studies, democracy and contemporary European and global challenges.

Ferenc Miszlivetz is Academic Programme Director at the Institute for Global and European Integration Studies at Corvinus University in Budapest, Scientific Advisor of the Institute for Political Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Science and President of the board of ISES Foundation.

Jody Jensen is the Director of International Relations at the Institute of Social and European Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.