Towards a Segmented European Political Order

Jozef Bátora is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, and at the International Relations Department, Webster Vienna Private University, Austria.John Erik Fossum is Professor at the ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway.

• 1. Introduction 2. The Institutional Make-up of Europe’s Segmented Political Order 3. Illusions of Convergence: The Persistent Simplification of a Wicked Crisis 4. Epistemic Worries about Economic Expertise 5. What Kind of Crisis and How to Deal with it? The Segmented Border Logic in the European Migration Crisis 6. Toxic Neoliberalism on the EU’s Periphery: Slovakia, the Euro and the Migrant Crisis 7. European Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Towards Differentiated Integration 8. Interstitial Organisations and Segmented Integration in EU Governance 9. Undermining the Standards of Liberal Democracy within the European Union: The Polish Case and the Limits of Post-Enlargement Democratic Conditionality 10. Newspaper Portrayal of the EU in Crises in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary: The Union’s Imagined Linearity 11. European Crises and Foreign Policy Attitudes in Europe 12. Integration through Differentiation and Segmentation: The Case of one Member State from 1950 to Brexit (and Beyond) 13. Conclusion: A Segmented Political Order and Future Options

This collection foregrounds the institutional fault lines, ideas and ideologies that make today's EU a uniquely "segmented" political order. Its thought-provoking contributions help us see that different aspects of European governance are simultaneously moving in several different directions – and that this has major consequences for how we understand its whole system. – Craig Parsons, University of Oregon, USA.