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

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by  Nick Cohen (editor), Ayana Dootalieva (editor)

European Integration and
Disintegration
European integration is an ambitious goal that attempts to reconcile gran-
diose visions for the future of Europe with complicated national attitudes
toward unity. The added complexity of political crises, which have charac-
terized the European project from its outset, makes the success of the Eu-
ropean 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 interdisci-
plinary 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.
Nick Cohen is a historical researcher, currently at Schmidt Futures. He is
also an advisor to the Wilson Center’s Cold War Archives Research Insti-
tute. A former Schepp Scholar, he holds an MA from Columbia University,
where he studied transatlantic diplomatic history, and a BA from Carleton
College in International Relations.
Ayana Dootalieva is a lawyer at the Brussels Bar where she practices Eu-
ropean and Belgian public and environmental law. She is trained in law
and social sciences and holds degrees from Ghent University (Belgium)
and Columbia University (NY, USA). Ayana is interested in the interplay
between law, governance, and policy.
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European Integration and
Disintegration
Essays from the Next Generation of
Europe’s Thinkers
Edited by
Nick Cohen and Ayana Dootalieva
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Title: European integration and disintegration: essays from the
next generation of Europe’s thinkers / edited by Nick Cohen
and Ayana Dootalieva.
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Contents
Lists of illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
List of contributors xi
Introduction: European Unity, From Crisis to Integration:
Perspectives from the Next Generation of Europe’s Thinkers 1
NICK COHEN AND AYANA DOOTALIEVA
1 The Disintegration of the Center-Left Labor Consensus:
Lessons from the Labour Party’s Social Contract Failure 17
ADAM FRICK
2 State of Pandemic: Opportunity or Challenge for Far-Right
Populist Parties? The Case of the Alternative für Deutschland Party 42
ALI CAIN
3 Decentralizing and Democratizing Identity Narratives through
Regional Tourism: A Lesson from Catalonia 79
MAX FERRER
4 The Birth of the Maastricht Generation: The Role of Young
Hungarians in Defending European Democracy 99
FLORIS MARIA RIJSSENBEEK
5 Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? RT’s Reporting on the
European Union in Central and Eastern Europe 129
EMMA FLAHERTY
vi Contents
6 The New Ostpolitik: Nord Stream 2 and the Politics of
German–Russian Gas Relations 157
RUBEN L. TJON-A-MEEUW
7 Will 27 Become One? The Linkage between Europe’s
Domestic and Foreign Politics and the Prospect of a Single EU
Seat at the United Nations Security Council 188
FAÏZ EL MAMOUNE
Index 221
Illustrations
Figures
2.1 Breakdown of the AfD’s Facebook Posts in
16 different categories 53
2.2 Comparison of three biggest categories 59
4.1 Youth preference for democracy, 2011–2019 106
4.2 Youth political party preferences, 2011–2019 109
4.3 Political concerns among Hungary’s youth, 2017–2020 111
4.4 Methods of Hungarian youth political participation, 2017–2020 113
5.1 Illustrating the trend of negative sentiment in RT articles
across the country groupings 139
5.2 Showing the trend in positive sentiment across the country
groupings for economics, security, and values EU coverage
topics. The measures of no percentage reflect 100% negative
sentiment. 140
5.3 Showing the trend in aggregated European Union stories
over time. The European Parliament elections occurred in
May 2019. 145
5.4 Showing the sentiment trends for all co-occurrences of a
CEE country and the aggregated European Union code.
Only CEE countries that had instances of an EU code
application are shown. 145
Tables
5.1 Summary of CEE Country Classifications 134
5.2 Sentiment Across EU Coverage Topic and Country 137

Acknowledgments
We owe a great deal of gratitude to many individuals who have helped us in
producing this volume, whether directly or indirectly. To everyone who has
supported us in thinking this collection through, thank you. We also wish
to thank the European Institute at Columbia University – we, the editors
and authors, first met through the European Institute’s capstone seminar,
without which this volume would not have come together. In particular, we
would like to thank Tsveta Petrova, whose early guidance in those seminars
is present throughout the pages of this volume. To all of our advisors and
mentors at Columbia University, we owe a collective thank you for your in-
tellectual guidance as we each thought through the future of the European
Union. We also wish to acknowledge Andrea Szabó and the Heinrich Böll
Stiftung for granting us permission to reproduce their images in this vol-
ume. To Clara Levrero, who expertly provided much-needed assistance in
the final moments of this project, a huge thank you! And last, but certainly
not least, we would like to thank our editor, Rob Langham, and his excep-
tional assistant, Zoe Thomson, who believed in this volume from the outset
and who have expertly shepherded it to its current version.