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European integration has been driven by crisis since the 1950s. What distinguishes the most recent crisis context in Europe is its degree of complexity, duration, and interdependence. To understand the current chapter in European integration, one must first evaluate the unusual, combined effects of the five overlapping crises that have surfaced since 2008. I develop a general framework of analysis designed to help us understand Europe’s novel crisis context, and then apply it to the Eurozone crisis, the Russia–Ukraine crisis, the crisis of migration, Brexit, and the crisis in the transatlantic relationship. What emerges from the comparative analysis is that the level of interactive complexity generated by this succession of crises has prompted the EU to respond in ways that has brought the Union incrementally closer to “stateness.” |
