ABSTRACT

European integration is an ambitious goal that attempts to reconcile grandiose visions for the future of Europe with complicated national attitudes toward unity. The added complexity of political crises, which have characterized the European project from its outset, makes the success of the European Union far from guaranteed. Today, European unity is once again at an existential crossroad, with internal and external challenges threatening its integration. This volume uniquely brings together the novel perspectives of Europe’s emergent generation of thinkers to analyze through interdisciplinary lenses these various disintegrative pressures. 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.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

European Unity, from Crisis to Integration: Perspectives from the Next Generation of Europe's Thinkers

chapter 1|25 pages

The Disintegration of the Center-Left Labor Consensus

Lessons from the Labour Party's Social Contract Failure

chapter 2|37 pages

State of Pandemic

Opportunity or Challenge for Far-Right Populist Parties? The Case of the Alternative für Deutschland Party

chapter 4|30 pages

The Birth of the Maastricht Generation

The Role of Young Hungarians in Defending European Democracy

chapter 6|31 pages

The New Ostpolitik

Nord Stream 2 and the Politics of German–Russian Gas Relations