The JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2020

by Exadaktylos, Theofanis; Guerrina, Roberta; Massetti, Emanuele

• ISBN13: 9781119857518
• ISBN10: 1119857511
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-03-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Including specially commissioned articles and produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Review, covers the key developments in the European Union, its member states, and acceding and/or applicant countries in 2020.

• Written by leading experts in their respective fields covering a wide array of political, economic and legal issues
• The Annual Review is the most up-to-date and authoritative source of information for practitioners, scholars, students and researchers of European integration as well as for general readers who simply want to know more about the European Union and have a pluralism of voices
• This year, a set of articles analyse various aspects of the Covid-19 crisis and of the EU responses to it: institutional, political economic and medical
• Includes a longer-term analysis and reflection on emergency politics in the EU, as well as a piece on how the Black Lives Matter movement developed in Europe
• Other contributions focus on the impact of the public health crisis on new policies, such as the recently launched European Green Deal
• The external dimension of the EU is covered by contributions analyzing the Belarusian crisis, the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, and the EU’s relationships with the US and with China

Author Biography

Theofanis Exadaktylos, Roberta Guerrina and Emanuele Massetti are the JCMS Annual Review Editors and are all based at the University of Surrey, UK.

Table of Contents

1. A Year like no Other: Hope out of Despair? (Theofanis Exadaktylos, Roberta Guerrina and Emanuele Massetti)

2. How 2020 Has Shaped the Future of the European Union: When a Crisis Turns into an Opportunity (Federica Mogherini)

3. The Impossibility of Constitutionalizing Emergency Europe (Stefan Auer and Nicole Scicluna)

4. The EU Institutional Architecture in the Covid-19 Response: Coordinative Europeanization in Times of Permanent Emergency (Stella Ladi and Sarah Wolff)

5. Fiscal Integration in an Experimental Union: How Path-Breaking Was the EU’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic? (Waltraud Schelkle)

6. The EU Response to COVID-19: From Reactive Policies to Strategic Decision-Making (Rebecca Forman and Elias Mossialos)

7. Social Perspectives on Brexit, COVID-19 and European (Dis) Integration (Linda Hantrais)

8. The European Green Deal and the EU’s Regulatory Power in Times of Crisis (Sandra Eckert)

9. Immigration, Refugees and Responses (Jane Freedman)

10. Towards a Reading of Black Lives Matter in Europe (Jean Beaman)

11. ‘Our European Friends and Partners’? Negotiating the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (Simon Usherwood)

12. Societal Resilience and the EU Response: The Case of Belarus from a Complex IR Perspective (Elena Korosteleva and Irina Petrova)

13. Territorial Conflict, Domestic Crisis, and the Covid-19 Pandemic in the South Caucasus: Explaining Variegated EU Responses (Tobias Schumacher and Cengiz Günay)

14. Elastic Relations: Looking to both Sides of the Atlantic in the 2020 US Presidential Election Year (Stephanie C. Hofmann)

15. Controversial Developments of EU–China Relations: Main Drivers and Geopolitical Implications of the Comprehensive Agreement on Investments (Mario Telò)

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