Politics of Last Resort: Governing by Emergency in the European Union

by Jonathan White

Prominent in the EU's recent transformations has been the tendency to advance extraordinary measures in the name of crisis response. From emergency lending to macro-economics, border management to Brexit, policies are pursued unconventionally and as measures of last resort. This book investigates the nature, rise, and implications of this politics of emergency as it appears in the transnational setting. As the author argues, recourse to this method...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198791720
• ISBN13: 9780198791720
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.3"