This book makes a distinctive contribution to the crucial debate on the European Union’s present and future development. It systematically examines how the range of crises and challenges over the last decade have transformed the EU and relates those findings to the discussion of an increasingly differentiated EU.

1. Introduction 2. The Institutional Make-up of Europe’s Segmented Political Order 3. Illusions of Convergence: The Persistent Simplification of a Wicked Crisis 4. Epistemic Worries about Economic Expertise 5. What Kind of Crisis and How to Deal with it? The Segmented Border Logic in the European Migration Crisis 6. Toxic Neoliberalism on the EU’s Periphery: Slovakia, the Euro and the Migrant Crisis 7. European Solidarity in Times of Crisis: Towards Differentiated Integration 8. Interstitial Organisations and Segmented Integration in EU Governance 9. Undermining the Standards of Liberal Democracy within the European Union: The Polish Case and the Limits of Post-Enlargement Democratic Conditionality 10. Newspaper Portrayal of the EU in Crises in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary: The Union’s Imagined Linearity 11. European Crises and Foreign Policy Attitudes in Europe 12. Integration through Differentiation and Segmentation: The Case of one Member State from 1950 to Brexit (and Beyond) 13. Conclusion: A Segmented Political Order and Future Options