In Defence of Europe

Loukas Tsoukalis is Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens and President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), the main Greek think tank on European and foreign policy. He has taught at many of the top universities around Europe, including Oxford, the London School of Economics, and the College of Europe. He has also held visiting professorships at Sciences Po in Paris, the European University Institute in Florence, and King's College, London. In 2016, he was Pierre Keller Visiting Professor at Harvard University. The author of many books on European integration and international political economy, he habitually crosses the boundary between economics and politics, theory and policy, and is familiar with the Brussels world, having served as special adviser to the former President of the European Commission. A public intellectual, he has for long been actively engaged in the European policy debate.

• 1: High Stakes2: Bigger, More intrusive, and Less Inclusive3: Reality Strikes Back4: 1. Whose Rules and Whose Adjustment?5: The Priest, the Sinner, and the Non-Believer6: Still Holding Together, But...7: Difficult ChoicesNotesIndex

This volume by a leading scholar of European integration could not be timelier... The analysis of the political, economic and social causes and consequences of the crisis is sharp and all of the key factors are identified and discussed. [It] does not shy away from the big questions of integration. This is one of the great strengths of the volume ... [that] finds its roots in an older literature on the EU that sought to understand the nature of the beast.