Vlad F. Perju (BC): On the (De-)Fragmentation of Statehood in Europe: Reflections on Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenforde’s Work on European Integration. Nicholas W. Barber (Oxford): The Two Europes. Michal Matlak (EUI): Jacques Delors, the Single Market and the Failed Attempt to Give a Soul to Europe. Etienne Balibar on Europe in crisis: Which “new foundation”? Saving the sacred cow: Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on Yanis Varoufakis’s vision for a more democratic Europe (and more). Brexit: Doom, or Europe’s Polanyi moment? How to save the European Union: A once-maligned monarchy offers clues to how pluralism can work in Europe.
Michael A. Wilkinson (LSE): Authoritarian Liberalism: The Conjuncture Behind the Crisis. Jens van‘t Klooster (Cambridge): Democracy and the European Central Bank's Emergency Powers. Brian Shaev (Leiden): Liberalising Regional Trade: Socialists and European Economic Integration. Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley) and Dieter Plehwe (WZB): Neoliberals Against Europe. Germany’s European empire: Loren Balhorn interviews Wolfgang Streeck on the prospects of the European Union, the role of the nation state, and the specter of populism. Wolfgang Streeck on Europe under Merkel IV: Balance of impotence. And where is Europe? Hans Sluga on what to do about a receding continent.
Why Europe could melt down over a simple question of borders. Three versions of Europe are collapsing at the same time: Post-1945, post-1968, and post-1989 Europe are all different — and none of them make sense anymore. Are we still good Europeans? Simply retreating behind national borders is not an adequate response to the challenges of our time — Jurgen Habermas on why the people of Europe have long since left the political elite behind. Is a post-nationalist Europe still possible after Catalonia? Max Holleran reviews Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe by Richard Ivan Jobs.
