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EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND THE CRISIS OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IBD

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
09 / 2023
9783031088247
Anglès

Sinopsi

This is a book about European integration and mainstream parties of the left, the main underlying question driving it being: Given that the communist left was fatally wounded by the collapse of the Berlin Wall, given that, since then, the terms âÇÖleftâÇÖ and âÇÖrightâÇÖ have not infrequently been attacked (especially by populists) as being no longer useful for making sense of politics, given that social democracy, understood as âÇÖnational KeynesianismâÇÖ no longer appears to be viable (as reflected in its long-term electoral decline), what does it mean to be on the left in the early 21stácentury and what can be done to revive its fortunes? Its answer is that being on the left means embracing principles of equality and international solidarity, and that since the nation state is too small to respond effectively to climate change and the other most pressing issues of the present, no viable strategy for left-wing revival in Europe can dispense with European integration as a central element, of which European democratisation is a core component.

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