Pandemic polity-building : how COVID-19 shaped the European Union
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Zbigniew TRUCHLEWSKI et al. Pandemic polity-building : how COVID-19 shaped the European Union. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]. Online resource, e-book.
In 2020, the European Union faced the COVID-19 crisis. This book tells the unlikely story of how the European Union survived a crisis that arrived on the heels of a difficult decade during which the EU wrestled with repeated crises, from the Euro Area, to refugees, populism, and geopolitics. Against all odds, a divided polity with a weak centre and low competences in crucial policy domains, managed to overcome powerful disincentives to coordinate its way out of the pandemic and create central capacity building. 'Pandemic Polity-Building' argues that this puzzling outcome stems from COVID-19's crisis characteristics and the EU's polity features.
In 2020, the European Union faced the COVID-19 crisis. This book tells the unlikely story of how the European Union survived a crisis that arrived on the heels of a difficult decade during which the EU wrestled with repeated crises, from the Euro Area, to refugees, populism, and geopolitics. Against all odds, a divided polity with a weak centre and low competences in crucial policy domains, managed to overcome powerful disincentives to coordinate its way out of the pandemic and create central capacity building. 'Pandemic Polity-Building' argues that this puzzling outcome stems from COVID-19's crisis characteristics and the EU's polity features.