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Crisis talk is ubiquitous in Europe and the European Union (EU). At the time of writing, the word ‘crisis’ immediately conjures up the image of the sanitary (and economic) emergency linked to the COVID-19 pandemic. Typically characterised by the media as the worst global calamity of the post-World War II era, the coronavirus emergency is often construed as the ultimate test for the EU.
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See Laurent Warlouzet’s chapter in this volume, as well as his Governing Europe in a Globalizing World, for a full presentation of this typology.
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See James E. Cronin, Global Rules: America, Britain and a Disordered World (London-New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014); Hal Brands, Making the Unipolar Moment: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Post-Cold War Order (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016).
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Di Donato, M. (2023). Introduction. In: Di Donato, M., Pons, S. (eds) European Integration and the Global Financial Crisis. Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06797-6_1
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