European Union at an Inflection Point

<p>The cutting-edge contributions to this book analyse different facets of the European Union (EU): closer integration among the member states policymaking within a ‘normal’ political system and the implications of European integration for its member states. This book also considers whether the challenges currently confronting the EU – the lingering Eurozone debt crises the migrant/refugee crisis the British decision to leave the EU and terrorist attacks in Belgium France and Germany – mark an inflection point for the Union and for the study of the EU. For the first time ‘less Europe’ rather than closer integration has emerged as a serious option in response to crisis. This possibility reignites questions of (dis)integration and calls into question the assumption of the EU as a ‘normal’ political system. This book was originally published as a special issue of the <i>Journal of European Public Policy. </i></p>