European Integration and Disintegration: Essays from the Next Generation of Europe's Thinkers

"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"--