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European integration (theory) in times of crisis. A comparison of the euro and Schengen crises

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ID21135693
AuthorsFrank Schimmelfennig (0000-0002-1638-1819, ETH Zurich, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume25
Issue7
Pages969-989
Publication date2018-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501763.2017.1421252
OpenAlexW2795157448
LanguageEN
Citations received134
References cited25

The European Union has gone through major crises of its two flagship integration projects of the 1990s: the euro and Schengen. Both crises had structurally similar causes and beginnings: exogenous shocks exposed the functional shortcomings of both integration projects and produced sharp distributional conflict among governments, as well as an unprecedented politicization of European integration in member state societies. Yet they have resulted in significantly different outcomes: whereas the euro crisis has brought about a major deepening of integration, the Schengen crisis has not. I put forward a neofunctionalist explanation of these different outcomes, which emphasizes variation in transnational interdependence and supranational capacity across the two policy areas

Economic system · Economics · European integration · European union · Feature integration theory · International economics · International trade · Member state · Member states · Political economy · Political science · European Union Policy and Governance · Global Financial Regulation and Crises · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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