TY - BOOK AU - Auer,Stefan TI - European disunion: democracy, sovereignty and the politics of emergency T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780197683460 AV - JN30 U1 - 341.2422 23 PY - 2022/// CY - New York, NY PB - Oxford University Press KW - European Union KW - Self-determination, National KW - European Union countries KW - Democracy KW - Nation-state KW - Sovereignty KW - Law KW - ukslc KW - International law KW - thema N1 - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - The European Union means many different things to its many peoples. However, Europe has struggled to ascertain its values abroad and even domestically, facing a sovereignist rebellion from its newer member states, such as Hungary and Poland, and the departure of Britain. The key argument of this book is that the multiple crises of the European project are caused by one underlying factor: its bold attempt to overcome the age of nation-states. The logic of technocracy is thus pitted against the democratic impulse, which the European Union is supposed to embody. Democracy in Europe has suffered as a result UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197659601.001.0001 ER -