ABSTRACT The European Union has gone through major crises of its two flagship
integration projects of the 1990s: the euro and Schengen. Both crises had structurally similar …

Liberal Intergovernmentalism (LI) is the contemporary “baseline” social scientific and
historiographic theory of regional integration—especially as regards the European Union. It …

In November 2014, Frontex started its Southern Mediterranean border monitoring operation
Triton, followed in June 2015 by the Common Security and Defence Policy anti-smuggling …

The chapter recapitulates the basic assumptions and propositions of liberal
intergovernmentalism on national preferences, intergovernmental bargaining, and the …

Abstract The Euro, Schengen and Brexit crises pose important explanatory challenges to
liberal intergovernmentalism (LI). In contrast with the historical context in which LI originated …

The Mediterranean Sea is now the deadliest region in the world for migrants. Although the
death toll has been rising for many years, the EU response remains fragmented and short …

Purpose Contemporary governmentality combines biopolitical and necropolitical logics to
establish social, political and physical borders that classify and stratify populations using …

Abstract From January 2015 to December 2017, approximately 1.6 million migrants crossed
the Mediterranean to reach Europe. The death toll was dramatic, with almost 15,000 …

This study, commissioned by the European Parliament's Policy Department for Citizens'
Rights and Constitutional Affairs at the request of the PETI Committee, aims to update the …

The idealism that engendered the European​​ Neighbourhood Policy in 2004, later
codified in the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, has since been reviewed to adapt to the turbulence …