Economic crisis & political conflict in the EU

"Economic crisis and political conflict in the EU" examines the political consequences of the multiple crisis that the EU has faced over the past decade-and-a-bit: the global financial crisis and the attendant eurozone crisis, the foreign policy challenges in the EU's near neighbourhood, the migration crisis, the Brexit crisis, and now perhaps we need to add in the covid crisis.

It is, therefore, an ongoing work that develops year-by-year. It is less focused on political economy than when I first began teaching it a few years ago. But there are some persistent political themes throughout this time, in particular relating to Euroscepticism as a phenomenon and its impact on the politics of European integration, and these form the heart of the course.