Hanspeter Kriesi - Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis

Описание: Prof. Dr. Hanspeter Kriesi (European University Institute) joined the EU-RENEW Webinar Series to present his new book, Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2024), co-authored with Argyrios Altiparmakis, Ábel Bojár, and Ioana-Elena Oană.

About the book: The refugee crisis that hit the European Union and its member states during 2015–16 was just one in a series of recent crises, but perhaps the most critical for the EU's resilience. This book shows how policymakers in the EU polity have tried to come to terms with it. To explain how they reacted to the crisis domestically and jointly at the EU-level, the study relies on an original method to analyze political processes. It argues that the policy-specific institutional context and the specific crisis situation, defined in terms of asymmetrical problem and political pressure, largely shaped the crisis response. The authors suggest that the way in which the refugee crisis was managed has resulted in conflicts between member states, which have been further exacerbated in subsequent crises and will continue to haunt the EU in times to come.

Discussant: Prof. Dr. Robert Kissack Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals
Moderator: Dr. Kari Otteburn (University of Leuven)