Core-periphery relations in the European Union : power and conflict in a dualist political economy

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Laffan, Brigid (Author), Magone, Josae M. , 1962- (Author), Schweiger, Christian , 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Published: London New York, NY : Routledge , 2016
Series:Routledge/UACES contemporary European studies 32
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The European Union as a dualist economy : understanding core-periphery relations
  • 2. Core-periphery dynamics in the euro area : from conflict to cleavage?
  • 3. The centre-periphery divide in the eurocrisis : a theoretical approach
  • 4. National interests and differentiated integration in the EU under crisis conditions : the cases of Germany, France and Britain
  • 5. Will the centre hold? : Germany, Ireland and Slovakia and the crisis of the European project
  • 6. From "superficial" to "coercive" Europeanization in southern Europe : the lack of ownership of national reforms /
  • 7. Sociopolitical divisions in the European Union : discourses of southern European representatives in the European institutions
  • 8. The increasing core-periphery divide and the new member states : diverging from the European Union's mainstream developments
  • 9. The southern and eastern peripheries of Europe : is convergence a lost cause?
  • 10. Greece and the troika in the context of the eurozone crisis
  • 11. Confronting interrelated crises in the EU's western periphery : steering Ireland-EU relations back to the centre
  • 12. Portugal is a "good pupil of the European Union" : living under the regime of the troika
  • 13. Cyprus : the troika's new approach to resolving a financial crisis in a eurozone member state
  • 14. The politics of troika avoidance : the case of Spain
  • 15. Italy between trasformismon and transformative Europe
  • 16. The Hungarian agony over eurozone accession
  • 17. Peripheries, or perhaps already the centre? : the impact of ten years of membership in the European Union on the position and perceptions of Poland
  • 18. From core to periphery? : the impact of the crisis on the EU's role in the world
  • 19. The undermining of "gobal Europe" : the impact of the eurozone crisis on third country perceptions of the European Union
  • 20. Core-periphery relations in the European Union : some conclusions