ISSUE: 2/2021

  • Volume 25
  • Number 2
  • 2021

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Studia Europejskie –
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Between Differentiation and (Dis)Integration – Theoretical Explanations of a Post-Brexit European Union

Abstract

The authors of this paper provide a critical analysis of the most prominent theoretical vehicles employed in studying differentiated integration in contemporary, post-Brexit Europe. They discuss the descriptive, explanatory, and interpretative potential of the selected theoretical approaches that are applied at the intersection of disintegration and European differentiation discourse. “The holy grail” of the theorising of the dynamic (and accelerating) processes of (dis)integration and differentiation remains undiscovered. Nevertheless, a constant search for theoretical explanation is needed in the in-depth analyses of the current state of the European Union.

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Language: English

Pages: 7-27

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Gierlich, C. and Riedel, R. (2021) "Between Differentiation and (Dis)Integration – Theoretical Explanations of a Post-Brexit European Union". Studia Europejskie – Studies in European Affairs, 2/2021, pp. 7-27. DOI: 10.33067/SE.2.2021.1

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