Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: European unity, from crisis to integration: perspective from the next generation of Europe's thinkers / Nick Cohen and Ayana Dootalieva -- Chapter 1: The future of Europe's Social Democratic parties: lessons from the Labour Party's social contract failure / Adam Frick -- Chapter 2: State of pandemic: opportunity or challenge for far-right Populist parties? the case of the Alternative für Deutschland party / Ali Cain -- Chapter 3: Decentralizing and democratizing identity narratives through regional tourism: a lesson from Catalonia / Max Ferrer -- Chapter 4: The birth of the Maastricht Generation: the role of young Hungarians in defending European Democracy / Floris Maria Rijssenbeek -- Chapter 5: Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? RT's reporting on the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe / Emma Flaherty -- Chapter 6: The new Ostpolitik: Nord Stream 2 and the politics of German-Russian relations / Ruben L. Tjon-A-Meeuw -- Chapter 7: Will 27 become one? the linkage between Europe's domestic and foreign politics and the prospect of a single EU seat at the United Nations Security Council / Faïz El Mamoune.
Summary:
"European integration has long been an ambitious goal that attempts to reconcile grandiose visions for the future of Europe with complicated national attitudes toward unity. From its outset, the success of the European project has never been guaranteed, yet it seems to grow ever closer after periods of existential crisis. Europe once again is at an existential crossroad, with competing internal and external challenges threatening to disintegrate the Union. This volume uniquely brings together the novel perspectives of Europe's emergent generation of thinkers to analyze through interdisciplinary lenses these various disintegrative pressures. This book introduces the perspectives of the Maastricht Generation, a generation of Europeans and Europhiles who have only ever known a united Europe. Students and scholars of Europe as well as those interested in the future of European cohesion will enjoy this volume, both for the interdisciplinary analysis it brings forth and for the window it provides into the thinking of Europe's next generation of leaders"-- Provided by publisher.
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