In
this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev
reflects on the future of the European Union—and its potential lack of a
future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the
continent and the United Kingdom planning for Brexit, the European Union
is in disarray and plagued by doubts as never before. Krastev includes
chapters devoted to Europe's major problems (especially the political
destabilization sparked by the more than 1.3 million migrants from the
Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia), the spread of right-wing
populism (taking into account the election of Donald Trump in the United
States), and the thorny issues facing member states on the eastern
flank of the EU (including the threat posed by Vladimir Putin's Russia).
He concludes by reflecting on the ominous political, economic, and
geopolitical future that would await the continent if the Union itself
begins to disintegrate.
