Alarums & excursions : improvising politics on the European stage

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Alarums & excursions : improvising politics on the European stage

Title remainder

improvising politics on the European stage

Statement of responsibility

Luuk van Middelaar ; translated by Liz Waters

Title variation

Alarums and excursions

Creator

• Middelaar, Luuk van, 1973-

Contributor

• Waters, Liz

Author

• Middelaar, Luuk van, 1973-

Translator

• Waters, Liz

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Crises
• Crises (Sciences sociales) -- Pays de l'Union européenne
• Crises -- European Union countries
• EU/EC Policy
• European Union
• European Union -- Foreign relations
• European Union countries
• European Union countries -- Politics and government -- 21st century
• Europäische Integration
• Europäische Union
• International relations
• Krise
• Law
• Politics and government
• Politisches Handeln
• 1900-2099

Language

• eng
• dut
• eng

Summary

Crisis after crisis has beset the European Union in recent years - Greek sovereign debt, Russian annexation of Crimea, unprecedented levels of migration, and the turmoil created by Brexit. An organization originally designed to regulate and enforce rules about fishing rights, wheat quotas and product standards has found itself on the global stage forced to grapple with problems of identity, sovereignty and solidarity without a script or prompt. From Paris to Berlin, London to Athens, European leaders have had to improvise on issues that the Union was never set up to handle and which threaten to engulf this unique political entity. And they have had to do so in full view of an increasingly disenchanted and dissonant public audience. In this candid and revealing portrayal of a Europe improvising its way through a politics of events and not rules, the author makes sense of the EU's political metamorphosis over its past ten years of crisis management. Forced into action by a tidal wave of emergencies, the author shows how Europe has had to reinvent itself by casting off its legal straitjacket and confronting hard issues of power, territorial borders and public authority. This book showcases the fascinating relationship between the Union and the European heads of government, and the stresses it must withstand in dealing with real world events

Member of

• Nieuwe politiek van Europa

Cataloging source

YDX

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

Translated from the Dutch

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography