Europe Between Fragility and Hope - Matthias Waechter & Jean-Claude Vérez
In the years before the Covid-19 crisis confronted the world with unprecedented challenges, the EU showed two sides of itself. On the one hand, it gave cause for hope, having overcome several crises and presenting itself to the world as a defender of multilateralism and a stronghold of democracy. On the other hand, however, its weaknesses remained visible: its lack of coherence in foreign and security policy; its insufficient influence in its neighbouring regions; and its internal contradictions with regard to upholding the rule of law among its member states. The essays gathered in this new book offer a review of two years of EU politics.
With contributions by Laurent Baechler, Anna Dimitrova, Mohamed Ane, Sebastian Franzkowiak, András Inotai, Gabriel N. Toggenburg, Arnaud Leconte, Kyriakos Revelas, Hartmut Marhold, Jean-Claude Vérez, Jean-Marie Rousseau, Susann Heinecke, Florent Marciacq, Tobias Flessenkemper, Magda Stumvoll, Marta-Claudia Cliza, Laura-Cristiana Spataru-Negura, Claude Nigoul, Pinar Selek, and Yvan Gastaut.
Matthias Waechter is Director General of CIFE and Jean-Claude Vérez is Director of the MAEIS Mediterranean Studies at CIFE and Associate Professor at the University of Artois.
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