Description
The book uses this conceptual framework to analyse the development of the EU as a polity. Chapters cover significant recent crises, including the Eurozone, refugees, the rule of law, Brexit, and constitutional identity. These events are not only recognized as being political shocks, but more meaningful and long lasting occurrences which have had, and will continue to have, a deep impact on the development of the EU as a legal and political system. In light of this, the variety of crises that have recently affected the EU are discussed with thought given to their impact as an interlinking whole.
Adeptly combining both theoretical and doctrinal analysis, this book will appeal to students and scholars of both EU law and politics as well as those interested in legal and political theory more widely. Government officials, policy makers and practitioners will also find this a stimulating read.
About the Author
Massimo Fichera, Associate Professor in Philosophy of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands
Reviews
'Today we are swamped with analyses of and solutions to the current crises of the EU that pay insufficient attention to the historical roots of our present problems. Fichera is an exception. He is particularly alive to the deep preoccupation of the European project with matters of security and rights, and has produced an account that is as complex and subtle as it is accessible and compelling.'
--Neil Walker, The University of Edinburgh, UK
'Boldly asserting that constituting itself as an Area of Freedom, Security and Justice is the very core of the EU as a political and legal project, Fichera shows, in this incisive and illuminating book, that security is both the presupposition of, and a threat to, the project of European integration.'
--Hans Lindahl, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Book Information
ISBN 9781785363894
Author Massimo Fichera
Format Hardback
Page Count 224
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
