Table Of ContentIsacore-periphery cleavage tearingtheEuropeanUnionapart?Thistimelybook
criticallyexaminesthetransformationofpoliticalconflictinEuropeinthewakeofthe
Eurocrisis. José Magone, Brigid Laffan and Christian Schweiger have assembled a
leading group of theoretical and empirical scholars to apply the core-periphery
lens on the Eurocrisis. The collection provides a compelling explanation for the
intensity of conflict, coalitional patterns, and declining policy effectiveness in the
contemporary European Union. It shows how the Eurocrisis has exacerbated –
rather than created – old core-periphery tensions, and how the EU institutions’
inability to diffuse these tensions is hastening Europe’s geopolitical decline. This
path-breaking study will change our understanding of European governance. It
is also a wake-up call for Europe’s leaders.
Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
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Core-periphery Relations in the
European Union
Successive enlargements to the European Union membership have transformed it
into an economically, politically and culturally heterogeneous body with distinct
vulnerabilities in its multi-level governance.
This book analyses core–periphery relations to highlight the growing cleavage,
and potential conflict, between the core and peripheral member states of the
Union in the face of the devastating consequences of the Eurozone crisis. Taking
a comparative and theoretical approach and using a variety of case studies, it
examines how the crisis has both exacerbated tensions in centre–periphery rela-
tions within and outside the Eurozone and how the European Union’s economic
and political status is declining globally.
This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of European Union
studies, European integration, political economy, public policy and comparative
politics.
José M. Magone is Professor of Regional and Global Governance at the Berlin
School of Economics and Law.
Brigid Laffan is Director and Professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for
AdvancedStudiesandDirectoroftheGlobalGovernanceProgramme,European
University Institute (EUI), Florence.
Christian Schweiger is Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and
International Affairs at Durham University.
Routledge/UACES Contemporary European Studies
Edited by Federica Bicchi, London School of Economics and Poli-
tical Science, Tanja Börzel, Free University of Berlin, and Mark
Pollack, Temple University, on behalf of the University Association
for Contemporary European Studies
Editorial Board: Grainne De Búrca, European University Institute
and Columbia University; Andreas Føllesdal, Norwegian Centre for
Human Rights, University of Oslo; Peter Holmes, University of
Sussex; Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; David Phinnemore,
Queen’s University Belfast; Ben Rosamond, University of Warwick;
Vivien Ann Schmidt, University of Boston; Jo Shaw, University of
Edinburgh; Mike Smith, University of Loughborough and Loukas
Tsoukalis,ELIAMEP,UniversityofAthensandEuropean University
Institute.
The primary objective of the new Contemporary European Studies series is to
provide a research outlet for scholars of European Studies from all disciplines.
The series publishes important scholarly works and aims to forge for itself an
international reputation.
1. The EU and 4. The European Union and
Conflict Resolution International Development
Promoting peace in the backyard The politics of foreign aid
Nathalie Tocci Maurizio Carbone
2. Central Banking Governance 5. The End of
in the European Union European Integration
A comparative analysis Anti-Europeanism examined
Lucia Quaglia Paul Taylor
3. New Security Issues in 6. The European Union and the
Northern Europe Asia-Pacific
The Nordic and Baltic states Media, public and elite perceptions of
and the ESDP the EU
Edited by Clive Archer Edited by Natalia Chaban and Martin
Holland
7. The History of the 14. European Governmentality
European Union The liberal drift of
Origins of a trans- and supranational multilevel governance
polity 1950–72 Richard Münch
Edited by Wolfram Kaiser, Brigitte Leucht
and Morten Rasmussen 15. The European Union as a
Leader in International Climate
8. International Actors, Change Politics
Democratization and the Edited by Rüdiger K. W. Wurzel and
Rule of Law James Connelly
Anchoring democracy?
Edited by Amichai Magen and 16. Diversity in Europe
Leonardo Morlino Dilemmas of differential treatment in
theory and practice
9. Minority Nationalist Parties Edited by Gideon Calder and
and European Integration Emanuela Ceva
A comparative study
Anwen Elias 17. EU Conflict Prevention and
Crisis Management
10. European Union Roles, institutions and policies
Intergovernmental Conferences Edited by Eva Gross and Ana E. Juncos
Domestic preference formation,
transgovernmental networks and the 18. The European
dynamics of compromise Parliament’s Committees
Paul W. Thurner and Franz Urban Pappi National party influence and
legislative empowerment
11. The Political Economy of Richard Whitaker
State-Business Relations
in Europe 19. The European Union, Civil
Interest mediation, capitalism and EU Society and Conflict
policy making Nathalie Tocci
Rainer Eising
20. European Foreign Policy
12. Governing Financial Services and the Challenges of
in the European Union Balkan Accession
Banking, securities and post-trading Sovereignty contested
Lucia Quaglia Gergana Noutcheva
13. European Union Governance 21. The European Union and
Efficiency and legitimacy in European South East Europe
commission committees ThedynamicsofEuropeanizationand
Karen Heard-Lauréote multilevel governance
Andrew Taylor, Andrew Geddes and
Charles Lees
22. Bureaucrats as Law-Makers 28. Lobbying in EU Foreign
Committee decision-making in the Policy-making
EU Council of Ministers The case of the
Frank M. Häge Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Benedetta Voltolini
23. Europeanization and the
European Economic Area 29. War and Intervention in the
Iceland's participation in the EU's Transnational Public Sphere
policy process Problem-solving and European
Johanna Jonsdottir identity-formation
Cathleen Kantner
24. The Cultural Politics
of Europe 30. The European Union's
European capitals of culture and the Foreign Policy in Comparative
European Union since 1980 Perspective
Kiran Klaus Patel Evaluating and generating hypotheses
on ‘actorness and power’
25. European Integration and Edited by Ingo Peters
Transformation in the
Western Balkans 31. The Formulation of EU
Europeanization or business as usual? Foreign Policy
Arolda Elbasani Socialization, negotiations and
disaggregation of the state
26. European Union Nicola Chelotti
Constitutionalism in Crisis
Nicole Scicluna 32. Core-periphery Relations in
the European Union
27. Transnationalization and Power and conflict in a dualist
Regulatory Change in the EU’s political economy
Eastern Neighbourhood José M. Magone, Brigid Laffan and
Julia Langbein Christian Schweiger
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