Core-periphery Relations in the European Union

<p>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. </p><p>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 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 relations within and outside the Eurozone and how the European Union’s economic and political status is declining globally.</p><p>This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of European Union studies European integration political economy public policy and comparative politics.</p>